Publications

Peer reviewed publications by our team

5.  D. Sheward, M. Delbo, C. Avdellidou, A. Cook, P. Lognnoné, E. Munabari, L. Zanatta, A. Mercatali, S. Delbo, and P. Tanga, Extending Lunar Impact Flash Observations into the Daytime with Short-Wave InfraredMNRAS (under review) Submitted May 2023 (2023).

4.  D. Sheward, C. Avdellidou, A. Cook, M. Delbo et al., PyNAPLE: Lunar Surface Impact Crater DetectionMNRAS 514, Issue 3, pp.4320-4328 (2022).

3. C. Avdellidou, E. Munaibari, R. Larson, J. Vaubaillon, M. Delbo, P. Hayne, M. Wieczorek, D. Sheward, A. Cook. Impacts on the Moon: analysis methods and size distribution of impactors.  Planetary & Space Science 200, article id. 105201 (2021).

2. J. D.Tandy, M.C.Price, P. Wozniakiewicz, M. J. Cole, L. S. Alesbrook, C. Avdellidou. Impact Flash Evolution of CO2 Ice, Water Ice and Frozen Martian and Lunar Regolith-Simulant Targets. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 10, 2301-2319 (2020).

1. C. Avdellidou & J. Vaubaillon. Temperatures of lunar impact flashes: mass and size distribution of small impactors hitting the Moon. MNRAS 484, Issue 4, p.5212-5222 (2019).

 

Conference contributions

14. D. Sheward et al., Lunar Surface Change Detection with PyNAPLE: The 2017-09-27 Lunar Impact Flash and Impact Crater, Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) virtual, (2021) oral

13. D. Sheward, A. Cook, C. Avdellidou, Preliminary Results from Lunar Surface Change Detection with PyNAPLE: The 2019-01-21 Lunar Impact Flash, Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) virtual, (2020) poster

12. J. Tandy et al., The Effect of Projectile Material on the Impact Flash from Carbon Dioxide Ice, Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) virtual, (2020) oral

11. E. Munaibari, C. Avdellidou, et al., Lunar impact flashes: analysis methods, Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) virtual, (2020) oral

10. C. Avdellidou et al., Lunar impact flashes: first detection from the Observatory of Nice, Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) virtual, (2020) poster

9. E. Munaibari, C. Avdellidou, R. Larson, Real-time detection of impact flashes on the lunar surface, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, SW, (2019) poster

8. J. Tandy, M. Price, P. Wozniakiewicz, M. Cole, R. Hibbert, C. Avdellidou, Observations of impacted, frozen Lunar and Martian regolith simulants, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, SW, (2019) poster

7. R. Larson, P. Hayne, C. Avdellidou, Automating the detection and coordinate identification of impact flashes on the Lunar surface, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, SW, (2019) poster

6. D. Sheward, C. Avdellidou, E. Sefton-Nash, PyNAPLE: Automated Lunar Impact Flash Crater Detection, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, SW, (2019) poster

5. C. Avdellidou et al., Thermophysics of lunar impact flashes, ThermopsIII, Budapest, HU, (2019) oral

4. C. Avdellidou, Lunar Impact Flashes, European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), TU Berlin, DE, (2018)

3. C. Avdellidou, The Moon as a large scale impact laboratory, Catastrophic Disruption 9 workshop, Kobe, JP, (2018) oral

2. C. Avdellidou, D. Koschny and the NELIOTA team, Lunar impact flashes - tracing the NEO size distribution, 49th Division for Planetary Science (DPS), Salt Lake City, USA, (2017) oral

1. C. Avdellidou, D. Koschny and the NELIOTA team, NELIOTA-Ground based observations of lunar impact flashes, Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM), Montevideo, UY, (2017) oral

 

Invited Presentations at International Conferences & Workshops

2022 Lunar impact flash observations from France, Europlanet Fireball Workshop #2, virtual

2019 20 years of ground-based lunar impact flash observations, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, Switzerland

2017 Temperatures of Lunar impact flashes measured for the first time, Press Conference at the 49th, Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Salt Lake City, USA 

2017 Temperatures of lunar impact flashes, SAKURA meeting on lunar impact flashes, Paris Obs., France

 

Seminars

2021 Observation and interpetation of lunar impact flashes, Taiwan Space Union

2019 Impact Flashes on the Moon, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France

2018 Impact flashes on the Moon and in lab, ISAS/JAXA, Tokyo, Japan

2017 Observing the Moon: A large-scale hypervelocity impact laboratory, OCA, Nice, France