Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Orenthal James Tucker

(Associate Chief)

Orenthal James Tucker's Contact Card & Information.
Email: orenthal.j.tucker@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6941
Org Code: 695
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 695
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Publications


Refereed

2024. "The effects of the velocity distribution of impact generated water ice ejecta on exospheric escape from airless bodies." Icarus 411 115947 [10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115947] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Absolute doubly differential angular sputtering yields for 20 keV Kr+ on polycrystalline Cu." Journal of Applied Physics 135 (3): [10.1063/5.0184417] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Establishing a Best Practice for SDTrimSP Simulations of Solar Wind Ion Sputtering." The Planetary Science Journal 4 (4): 67 [10.3847/psj/acc587] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Molecular Kinetic Simulations of Transient and Steady Wave Propagation into a Planet’s Exosphere." Atmosphere 14 (3): 441 [10.3390/atmos14030441] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "A tenuous, collisional atmosphere on Callisto." Icarus 368 114597 [10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114597] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Lifetime of a transient atmosphere produced by lunar volcanism." Icarus 359 114304 [10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114304] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Temperature extraction from spacecraft density profiles in the presence of wave activity." Icarus 357 114257 [10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114257] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "On the Effect of Magnetospheric Shielding on the Lunar Hydrogen Cycle." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126 (2): [10.1029/2020je006552] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The influence of collisions and thermal escape in Callisto's atmosphere." Icarus 352 113932 [10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113932] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Molecular kinetic simulations of transient perturbations in a planet's upper atmosphere." Icarus 335 113394 [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113394] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The lunar neon exosphere seen in LACE data." Icarus 329 246-250 [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.04.018] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Examining the exobase approximation: DSMC models of Titan's upper atmosphere." Icarus 272 290-300 [10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.044] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Evolution of an early Titan atmosphere." Icarus 271 202-206 [10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.014] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Gas transfer in the Pluto–Charon system: A Charon atmosphere." Icarus 246 291-297 [10.1016/j.icarus.2014.05.002] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Kinetic modeling of sodium in the lunar exosphere." Icarus 226 (2): 1538-1549 [10.1016/j.icarus.2013.08.021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Hybrid fluid/kinetic modeling of Pluto’s escaping atmosphere." Icarus 226 (1): 375-384 [10.1016/j.icarus.2013.05.042] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Kinetic simulations of thermal escape from a single component atmosphere." Physics of Fluids 23 (6): 066601 [10.1063/1.3592253] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "THERMALLY DRIVEN ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE: TRANSITION FROM HYDRODYNAMIC TO JEANS ESCAPE." The Astrophysical Journal 729 (2): L24 [10.1088/2041-8205/729/2/l24] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Mass Loss Processes in Titan's Upper Atmosphere." Titan from Cassini-Huygens [373-10.1007/978-1-4020-9215-2_15] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Trace constituents of Europa's atmosphere." Icarus 201 (1): 182-190 [10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.033] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Enceladus: The likely dominant nitrogen source in Saturn's magnetosphere." Icarus 188 356-366 [10.1016/j.icarus.2006.12.007] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Understanding the escape of water from Enceladus." Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) 112 [6219-10.1029/2006JA012086] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2019. "Sputter Loss of an Early Transient Lunar Atmosphere." European Planetary Science Conference EPSC-DPS2019-70. [Proceedings]

2019. "The Lunar Neon Exosphere seen in LACE Data." NASA Exploration Science Forum (AMES Research Center): [Proceedings]

2019. "Limits on X-Ray Luminosity from Pluto's H2 Corona." LPI/Pluto System After New Horizons 2133 id.7080 [Proceedings]