Publications

Refereed

Morrissey, L. S., O. J. Tucker, R. M. Killen, S. Nakhla, and D. W. Savin. 2022. "Solar Wind Ion Sputtering of Sodium from Silicates Using Molecular Dynamics Calculations of Surface Binding Energies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 925 (1): L6 [10.3847/2041-8213/ac42d8]

Carberry Mogan, S. R., O. J. Tucker, R. E. Johnson, et al. A. Vorburger, A. Galli, B. Marchand, A. Tafuni, S. Kumar, I. Sahin, and K. R. Sreenivasan. 2021. "A tenuous, collisional atmosphere on Callisto." Icarus 368 114597 [10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114597]

Carberry Mogan, S. R., O. J. Tucker, and R. E. Johnson. 2021. "The influence of upper boundary conditions on molecular kinetic atmospheric escape simulations." Planetary and Space Science 205 105302 [10.1016/j.pss.2021.105302]

Morrissey, L. S., O. J. Tucker, R. M. Killen, S. Nakhla, and D. W. Savin. 2021. "Sputtering of surfaces by ion irradiation: A comparison of molecular dynamics and binary collision approximation models to laboratory measurements." Journal of Applied Physics 130 (1): 013302 [10.1063/5.0051073]

Grava, C., R. M. Killen, M. Benna, et al. A. A. Berezhnoy, J. S. Halekas, F. Leblanc, M. N. Nishino, C. Plainaki, J. M. Raines, M. Sarantos, B. D. Teolis, O. J. Tucker, R. J. Vervack, and A. Vorburger. 2021. "Volatiles and Refractories in Surface-Bounded Exospheres in the Inner Solar System." Space Science Reviews 217 (5): 61 [10.1007/s11214-021-00833-8]

Tucker, O., R. Killen, R. Johnson, and P. Saxena. 2021. "Lifetime of a transient atmosphere produced by lunar volcanism." Icarus 359 114304 [10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114304]

Tucker, O. J., W. M. Farrell, and A. R. Poppe. 2021. "On the Effect of Magnetospheric Shielding on the Lunar Hydrogen Cycle." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126 (2): [10.1029/2020je006552]

Carberry Mogan, S. R., O. J. Tucker, R. E. Johnson, K. R. Sreenivasan, and S. Kumar. 2020. "The influence of collisions and thermal escape in Callisto's atmosphere." Icarus 352 113932 [10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113932]

Killen, R. M., D. R. Williams, J. Park, et al. O. J. Tucker, S.-J. Kim, R. M. Killen, and D. R. Williams. 2019. "The lunar neon exosphere seen in LACE data." Icarus 329 246-250 [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.04.018]

Tucker, O. J., W. M. Farrell, R. M. Killen, and D. M. Hurley. 2019. "Solar Wind Implantation Into the Lunar Regolith: Monte Carlo Simulations of H Retention in a Surface With Defects and the H 2 Exosphere." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2018JE005805 [10.1029/2018je005805]

Tucker, O. J., W. Waalkes, V. M. Tenishev, et al. R. E. Johnson, A. Bieler, M. R. Combi, and A. F. Nagy. 2016. "Examining the exobase approximation: DSMC models of Titan's upper atmosphere." Icarus 272 290-300 [10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.044]

Johnson, R., O. Tucker, and A. Volkov. 2016. "Evolution of an early Titan atmosphere." Icarus 271 202-206 [10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.014]

Tucker, O. J., M. R. Combi, and V. M. Tenishev. 2015. "2D models of gas flow and ice grain acceleration in Enceladus’ vents using DSMC methods." Icarus 257 362-376 [10.1016/j.icarus.2015.05.012]

Tucker, O., R. Johnson, and L. Young. 2015. "Gas transfer in the Pluto–Charon system: A Charon atmosphere." Icarus 246 291-297 [10.1016/j.icarus.2014.05.002]

Tenishev, V., M. Rubin, O. J. Tucker, M. R. Combi, and M. Sarantos. 2013. "Kinetic modeling of sodium in the lunar exosphere." Icarus 226 (2): 1538-1549 [10.1016/j.icarus.2013.08.021]

Erwin, J., O. Tucker, and R. E. Johnson. 2013. "Hybrid fluid/kinetic modeling of Pluto’s escaping atmosphere." Icarus 226 (1): 375-384 [10.1016/j.icarus.2013.05.042]

Tucker, O., R. Johnson, J. Deighan, and A. Volkov. 2013. "Diffusion and thermal escape of H2 from Titan’s atmosphere: Monte Carlo simulations." Icarus 222 (1): 149-158 [10.1016/j.icarus.2012.10.016]

Tucker, O., J. Erwin, J. Deighan, A. Volkov, and R. Johnson. 2012. "Thermally driven escape from Pluto’s atmosphere: A combined fluid/kinetic model." Icarus 217 (1): 408-415 [10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.017]

Volkov, A. N., O. J. Tucker, J. T. Erwin, and R. E. Johnson. 2011. "Kinetic simulations of thermal escape from a single component atmosphere." Physics of Fluids 23 (6): 066601 [10.1063/1.3592253]

Volkov, A. N., R. E. Johnson, O. J. Tucker, and J. T. Erwin. 2011. "THERMALLY DRIVEN ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE: TRANSITION FROM HYDRODYNAMIC TO JEANS ESCAPE." The Astrophysical Journal 729 (2): L24 [10.1088/2041-8205/729/2/l24]

Johnson, R. E., O. J. Tucker, M. Michael, et al. E. C. Sittler, H. T. Smith, D. T. Young, and J. H. Waite. 2010. "Mass Loss Processes in Titan's Upper Atmosphere." Titan from Cassini-Huygens [373-10.1007/978-1-4020-9215-2_15]

Tucker, O. J., and R. Johnson. 2009. "Thermally driven atmospheric escape: Monte Carlo simulations for Titan's atmosphere." Planetary and Space Science 57 (14-15): 1889-1894 [10.1016/j.pss.2009.06.003]

Cassidy, T., R. Johnson, and O. Tucker. 2009. "Trace constituents of Europa's atmosphere." Icarus 201 (1): 182-190 [10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.033]

Burger, M. H., E. C. Sittler, R. E. Johnson, et al. H. T. Smith, O. J. Tucker, and V. I. Shematovich. 2007. "Understanding the escape of water from Enceladus." Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) 112 [6219-10.1029/2006JA012086]

Smith, H. T., R. E. Johnson, E. C. Sittler, et al. M. Shappirio, D. Reisenfeld, O. J. Tucker, M. Burger, F. J. Crary, D. J. McComas, and D. T. Young. 2007. "Enceladus: The likely dominant nitrogen source in Saturn's magnetosphere." Icarus 188 356-366 [10.1016/j.icarus.2006.12.007]

Tucker, O. J., D. S. Ivanov, L. V. Zhigilei, R. E. Johnson, and E. M. Bringa. 2005. "Molecular dynamics simulation of sputtering from a cylindrical track: EAM versus pair potentials." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 228 (1-4): 163-169 [10.1016/j.nimb.2004.10.040]

Non-Refereed

Tucker, O. J., R. M. Killen, and P. Saxena. 2019. "Sputter Loss of an Early Transient Lunar Atmosphere." European Planetary Science Conference EPSC-DPS2019-70.

Killen, R. M., O. J. Tucker, D. R. Williams, J. Park, and S. J. Kim. 2019. "The Lunar Neon Exosphere seen in LACE Data." NASA Exploration Science Forum

Tucker, O. J., R. E. Johnson, J. M. Bell, et al. M. R. Collier, W. M. Farrell, A. Glocer, R. M. Killen, and P. Saxena. 2019. "Limits on X-Ray Luminosity from Pluto's H2 Corona." LPI/Pluto System After New Horizons 2133 id.7080