David Polishook - Publication List

Updated: June 2014

Publications - refereed papers:

Work in progress:

· Polishook, D., Moskovitz, N., DeMeo, F.E., and Binzel, R.P., 2014. Rotationally Resolved Spectroscopy of Asteroid Pairs: No Spectral Variation Suggests Fission is followed by Settling of Dust. Submitted to Icarus.

· Moskovitz, Scheeres, Endicott, Polishook, et al., 2014. The flyby of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14.

· Moskovitz, Polishook, et al., 2014. Detection of aspect-dependent thermal emission as a signature of near-Earth asteroid pole orientation. Submitted to Icarus.

· Brosch, N., Kaspi, S., Polishook, D., et al., 2014. Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) crossing the frost line. Submitted to MNRAS.

· Scheirich, P., and 23 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2014. The Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 — An observational constraint on its orbital stability. Submitted to Icarus.

Major contribution, first to third author

1. Polishook, D. 2014. Spin axes and shape models of asteroid pairs: fingerprints of YORP and a path to the density of rubble piles. Accepted for publication in Icarus. arXiv:1406.3359.

2. Polishook, D., Moskovitz, N., Binzel, R.P., DeMeo, F.E., Vokrouhlický, D., Žižka, J. and Oszkiewicz, D., 2014. Observations of “Fresh” and Weathered Surfaces on Asteroid Pairs and their Implications on the Rotational-Fission Mechanism. Icarus 233, 9-26.

3. Polishook, D., 2014. Spins, Lightcurves, and Binarity of Eight Asteroid Pairs: 4905, 7745, 8306, 16815, 17288, 26416, 42946, and 74096. Minor Planet Bulletin 41-1, 49-53.

4. Polishook, D., 2013. Fast rotation of the NEA 2012TC4 indicates a monolithic structure. Minor Planet Bulletin 40-1, 42-43.

5. Polishook, D., Binzel, R. P., Lockhart, M., DeMeo, F. E., Golisch, W., Bus, S. J., Gulbis, A. A. S., 2012. Spectral and Spin Measurement of Two Small and Fast-Rotating Near-Earth Asteroids. Icarus 221, 1187-1189.

6. Polishook, D., Ofek, E., and 18 coauthors, 2012. Asteroid Rotation Periods from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey. MNRAS 421, 2094-2108.

7. Polishook, D., 2012. Lightcurves for Shape Modeling: 852 Wladilena, 1089 Tama, and 1180 Rita. Minor Planet Bulletin 39-4, 242-244.

8. Polishook, D., 2012. Lightcurves and Spin Periods of Near-Earth Asteroids, The Wise Observatory, 2005 - 2010. Minor Planet Bulletin 39-3, 187-192.

9. Polishook, D., 2012. Lightcurves and Spin Periods from the Wise Observatory – October 2011. Minor Planet Bulletin 39-2, 88-89.

10. Polishook, D., Brosch, N., and Prialnik, D., 2011. Rotation Periods of Binary Asteroids with Large Separations – Confronting the Escaping Ejecta Binaries Model with Observations. Icarus 212, 167-174.

11. Polishook, D., 2011. Rotation Period of the ''Asteroid Pair'' (25884) 2000 SQ4. Minor Planet Bulletin 38-2, 94-95.

12. Polishook, D., 2011. Lightcurves and Spin Periods from the Wise Observatory - 2011. Minor Planet Bulletin 38-4, 198-199.

13. Polishook, D., 2011. Lightcurves and Spin Periods from the Wise Observatory - 2010. Minor Planet Bulletin 38-1, 18-21.

14. Vokrouhlicky, D., Durech, J., Polishook, D., and 12 coauthors, 2011. Spin Vector and Shape of (6070) Rheinland and Their Implications. AJ 142, 159.

15. Pravec, P., Vokrouhlicky, D., Polishook, D., and 23 coauthors, 2010. Formation of Asteroid Pairs by Rotational Fission. Nature 466, 1085-1088.

16. Polishook, D., 2010. Lightcurves and Spin Periods from the Wise Observatory - 2009. Minor Planet Bulletin 37-2, 65-69.

17. Polishook, D. and Brosch, N., 2009. Photometry and Spin Rate Distribution of Small-Sized Main Belt Asteroids. Icarus 199, 319-332.

18. Polishook, D., 2009. Lightcurves for Shape Modeling Obtained at the Wise Observatory. Minor Planet Bulletin 36-3, 119-120.

19. Polishook, D., 2009. Lightcurves and Spin Periods from the Wise Observatory: 2008 August – 2009 March. Minor Planet Bulletin 36-3, 104-107.

20. Polishook, D. and Brosch, N., 2008. Photometry of Atens – More than a Handful of Binaries. Icarus 194, 111-124.

21. Brosch, N., Polishook, D., Shporer, A., Kaspi, S., Berwald, A. and Manulis, I., 2008. The Centurion 18 Telescope of the Wise Observatory. Astroph. Space Sci., 314, 163-176.

22. Polishook, D., Brosch, N., Prialnik, D., and Kaspi, S., 2009. Simultaneous Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of Binary Asteroids. Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 44, 1955-1966.

23. Brosch, N., Helled, R, Polishook, D., Almoznino, E. and David, N., 2004. Meteor light curves: the relevant parameters. MNRAS 355, 111-119.

Other contributions

Asteroids and other minor planets

24. DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Carry, B., Polishook, D. and Moskovitz, N.A., 2014. Unexpected D-type interlopers in the inner main belt. Icarus 229, 392-399.

25. Hanuš, J., and 119 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2013. Asteroids' physical models from combined dense and sparse photometry and scaling of the YORP effect by the observed obliquity distribution. A&A 551, A67.

26. Waszczak, A., Ofek, E. O., Aharonson, O., Kulkarni, S., Polishook, D., et al. 2013. Main-Belt Comets in the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: 1. The Search for Extendedness. MNRAS 433, 3115-3132.

27. Durech, J., and 30 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Analysis of the rotation period of asteroids (1865) Cerberus, (2100) Ra-Shalom, and (3103) Eger - search for the YORP effect. A&A 547, A10.

28. Belton, M. and 70 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. Stardust-NExT, Deep Impact, and the accelerating spin of 9P/Tempel 1. Icarus 213, 345-368.

29. Hanuš, J. and 14 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. A study of asteroid pole-latitude distribution based on an extended set of shape models derived by the lightcurve inversion method. A&A 530, A134.

30. Meech, K.J. and 55 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. Deep Impact, Stardust-NExT and the Behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 From 1997-2010. Icarus 213, 323-344.

31. Warner, B.D., and 29 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2010. A Trio of Hungaria Binary Asteroids. Minor Planet Bulletin 37-2, 70-73.

Exoplanets discovery by micro-lensing

32. Yee, J.C., and 131 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2013. MOA-2010-BLG-311: A Planetary Candidate below the Threshold of Reliable Detection. AJ 769, 77.

33. Bachelet, E. and 122 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. A brown dwarf orbiting an M-dwarf: MOA 2009-BLG-411L. A&A 547, A55.

34. Bachelet, E. and 146 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. MOA 2010-BLG-477Lb: Constraining the Mass of a Microlensing Planet from Microlensing Parallax, Orbital Motion, and Detection of Blended Light. ApJ 754, 73.

35. Shin, I. –G., and 157 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Microlensing binaries with brown dwarf companions. AJ 760, 116.

36. Shin, I. –G., and 128 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Microlensing Binaries Discovered through High-Magnification Channel. ApJ 746, 127.

37. Batista, V. and 139 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf. A&A 529, A102.

38. Miyake, N., and 122 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. A sub-Saturn Mass Planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb. ApJ 728, 120.

39. Muraki, Y., and 135 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. Discovery and Mass Measurements of a Cold, 10-Earth Mass Planet and Its Host Star. ApJ 741, 22.

40. Bennett, D.P. and 78 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2010. Masses and orbital constraints for the OGLE-2006-BLG109Lb,c Jupiter/Saturn analog planetary system. ApJ 713, 837-855.

41. Gould, A. and 153 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2010. Frequency of Solar-Like Systems and of Ice and Gas Giants Beyond the Snow Line from High-Magnification Microlensing Events in 2005-2008. ApJ 720, 1073-1089.

42. Ryu, Y.-H., and 114 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2010. OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137: A Dramatic Repeating Event with the Second Perturbation Predicted by Real-time Analysis. ApJ 723, 81-88.

43. Batista, V. and 99 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2009. Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050. A&A 508, 467-478.

44. Yee, J.C. and 88 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2009. Extreme Magnification Microlensing Event OGLE-2008-BLG-279: Strong Limits on Planetary Companions to the Lens Star. ApJ 703, 2082-2090.

Supernovea and GRBs

45. Cenko, S., B., and 28 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2013. Discovery of a Cosmological, Relativistic Outburst via its Rapidly Fading Optical Emission. AJ 769, 130.

46. Dilday, B., and 34 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. PTF11kx: A Type-Ia Supernova with a Symbiotic Nova Progenitor. Science 337, 942.

47. Horesh, A., and 26 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. An Early & Comprehensive Millimeter and Centimeter Wave and X-ray Study of Supernova 2011dh: A Non-Equipartition Blastwave Expanding into A Massive Stellar Wind. MNRAS 436, 1258-1267.

48. Kasliwal, M., and 27 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies. ApJ 755, 161.

49. Parrent, J.T., and 37 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Analysis of the Early-time Optical Spectra of SN 2011fe in M101. Apj 752, L26.

50. Smith, N., and 20 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A jet in a Type II supernova. MNRAS 420, 1135.

51. Arcavi, I., and 42 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb supernova from a compact progenitor in the nearby Galaxy M51. ApJL 742, L18.

52. Van Dyk, S.D., and 14 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. The Progenitor of Supernova 2011dh/PTF11eon in Messier 51. ApJL 741, L28.

53. Lipkin, Y. M., Ofek, E. O., Gal-Yam, A., Leibowitz, E. M., Poznanski, D., Kaspi, S., Polishook, D., Kulkarni, S. R. and 17 coauthors, 2004. The Detailed Optical Light Curve of GRB 030329. AJ 606, 381-394.

Proceedings:

DeMeo, F.E and 5 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2014. The distribution of mantle material among main-belt asteroids. AAS Meeting Abstracts 224, #321.09.

DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Carry, B., Moskovitz, N., Polishook, D. 2014. Rogue Asteroids in the Inner Main Asteroid Belt. AAS Meeting Abstracts 223, \#247.03.

Moskovitz, N.A. and 19 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2013. The Near-Earth Flyby of Asteroid 2012 DA14 (Invited). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A3.

Moskovitz, N.A. and 6 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2013. Investigating the Compositional Diversity of Differentiated Planetesimals: A Spectroscopic Study of Non-Vesta Basaltic Asteroids. LPI Contributions 1768, 8023.

Polishook, D., Moskovitz, N., Binzel, R. P., DeMeo, F., Vokrouhlický, D. 2013. In Search of Fresh Material on Asteroid Pairs. AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 45, #304.06.

Abell, P., and 13 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2013. The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS). AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 45, #208.30.

Moskovitz, N., and 19 colleagues including Polishook, D., 2013. The Near-Earth Flyby of Asteroid 2012 DA14. AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 45, #101.03.

Polishook, D., Binzel, R. P., DeMeo, F., Rivkin, A., 2012. Constraining the Timescale of Space Weathering by Spectral Classification of Asteroid Pairs. LPI Contributions 1667, 6335, In ACM 2012, Niigata.

Polishook, D., 2012. Studying Spin Axis of Primary Components of Binary Asteroids and Asteroid Pairs. LPI Contributions 1667, 6487, In ACM 2012, Niigata.

Polishook, D., Ofek, O. E., Waszczak, A., Kulkarni, S. R., 2012. Asteroid Rotation Periods from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey. LPI Contributions 1667, 6347, In ACM 2012, Niigata.

Binzel, R.P., and 8 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Cracking the Space Weathering Code: Ordinary Chondrite Asteroids in the Near-Earth Population. In AAS/DPS Meeting Abstracts 44, #202.03.

Binzel, R.P., and 10 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Compositional Distribution of the Near-Earth Object Population. LPI Contributions 1667, 6433, In ACM 2012, Niigata.

Binzel, R.P., Polishook, D., et al., 2012. Marco Polo-R Target Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3: Possible Evidence for an Annual Thermal Wave. LPI, 43, 2222.

Scheirich, P., and 21 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2012. Zero Drift in Mean Anomaly of the Satellite of 1996 FG3 and its Implication for the BYORP Theory. LPI Contributions 1667, 6123, In ACM 2012, Niigata.

Polishook, D. and Ofek, E.O., 2011. Asteroid Science with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey. In ESPC-DPS 2011 joint meeting.

Hanuš, J. and 14 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. Spin-vector distribution of asteroids - the role of the YORP thermal effect. In ESPC-DPS 2011 joint meeting.

Waszczak, A., Ofek, E.O., Kulkarni, S. and Polishook, D., 2011. A search for main-belt comets with the Palomar Transient Factory. In ESPC-DPS 2011 joint meeting.

Polishook, D., Prialnik, D., Rosenberg, E., Brosch, N., 2010. Parameter-Study of the Thermal Yarkovsky Effect Acting on NEAs. In DPS 2010 meeting #42, p. 1055.

Durech, J., Vokrouhlicky, D., Polishook, D., et al., 2009. Detection of the YORP Effect in Asteroid (3103) Eger. In DPS 2009 meeting #41.

Pravec, P., Vokrouhlicky, D., Polishook, D., et al., 2009. Primary Rotations of Paired Asteroids. In DPS 2009 meeting #41.

Polishook, D., Brosch, N., Kaspi, S. and Prialnik, D., 2008. Simultaneous Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of Binary Asteroids. In ACM 2008, Baltimore.

Polishook, D. and Brosch, N., 2008. Efficient Photometry of Small Main Belt Asteroids using a Wide-Field CCD. In ACM 2008, Baltimore.

Brosch, N. and Polishook, D., 2008. Asteroid Observations at the Wise Observatory. First Middle East-Africa regional IAU Meeting, 2008 in Cairo, Egypt.

Polishook, D., et al. 2008. TAU AstroClub - Tel-Aviv University Public Outreach in Astrophysics. First Middle East-Africa regional IAU Meeting, 2008 in Cairo, Egypt.

Polishook, D. and Brosch, N., 2006. Observations of binary NEOs at the Wise Observatory. In "Near Earth Objects, Our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk", IAU Symp. #236, p. 85.

Polishook, D. and Brosch, N., 2006. Many Binaries among NEAs. Invited paper for NASA's "Near-Earth Object Detection, Characterization, and Threat Mitigation" workshop, Colorado, June 2006.

Polishook, D., Brosch, N. and Prialnik, D., 2005. Photometry of Atens. In ACM 2005, IAU Symp. #229.

Selected papers in bulletins and observational reports:

Binzel, R.P., Polishook, D., Bowens-Rubin, R., 2013. 2013 UQ4. IAUC 9262, 3.

Waszczak, A., Ofek, E. O. and Polishook, D., 2011. 2011 CR42. CBET 2823.

Choi, Y.-J., Weissman, P.R. and Polishook, D., 2006. (60558) 2000EC_98. IAUC 8656.

Polishook, D., Lipkin, Y. and Williams, G.V., 2004. 2004 MN4. MPEC 2004-Y68.

Arcavi, I., and 18 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. PTF11eon/SN2011dh is Possibly a Type IIb Event. ATEL 3413, 1.

Cao, Y., and 6 coauthors including Polishook, D., 2011. Spectroscopic classification of the M31 nova candidate, M31N 2011-06a. ATEL 3497, 1.