IACS Personnel

Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences
http://iacs.cua.edu

Dr. Michael Antonio DiSanti

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Position:

Associate Research Professor
Physics Department
The Catholic University of America,
Washington, DC 20064

Address:

Code 690.2
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771

E-mail: disanti@kuiper.gsfc.nasa.gov
Phone: (301)-286-7036
Fax: (301)-286-1681

EDUCATION

1989	Ph.D., Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Thesis title: "The production and spatial distribution of neutral and ionized water vapor in comet P/ Halley." (Advisers U. Fink, W.S. Bickel)
1980	M.S., Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
1978	B.S., Astrophysics, University of New Mexico; B.A., Chemistry, University of New Mexico.

SELECT COMET PUBLICATIONS:

DiSanti, M., U. Fink and A. Schultz (1990). "The spatial distribution of HO in comet P/Halley." Icarus, 86, 152 - 171.
Fink, U. and M. DiSanti (1990). "The production rate and spatial distribution of H2O for comet P/Halley." Astrophys. J., 364, 687 - 698.
DiSanti, M. and U. Fink (1991). "A composition comparison between comets P/Brorsen-Metcalf and P/Halley." Icarus, 91, 105 - 111.
Hoban, S., M. Mumma, D. Reuter, M. DiSanti, R. Joyce and A. Storrs (1991). "A tentative identification of methanol as the progenitor of the 3.52-mm emission feature in several comets." Icarus, 93, 122 - 134.
Fink, U., M. Combi and M. DiSanti (1991). "P/Halley: Spatial distributions and scale lengths for C2, CN, NH2, and H2O." Ap. J. 383, 356 - 371.
DiSanti, M., M. Mumma, J. Lacy and P. Parmar (1992). "A possible detection of infrared emission from carbon monoxide in comet Austin (1989c1)." Icarus, 96, 151 - 160.
DiSanti, M., M. Mumma, and J. Lacy (1992). "A sensitive upper limit to OCS in comet Austin (1989c1) from observations of n3 emission at 4.85 mm." Icarus Notes, 97, 155 - 158.
DiSanti, M.A., M.J. Mumma, T.R. Geballe, and J.K. Davies (1995). "Systematic observations of methanol and other organics in comet P/Swift-Tuttle: Discovery of new spectral structure at 3.42 mm." Icarus 106, 1 - 17.
Mumma, M.J., M.A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, M. Fomenkova, K. Magee-Sauer, C.D. Kaminski, and D.X. Xie (1996). "Detection of abundant ethane and methane, along with carbon monoxide and water, in comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake: Evidence for interstellar origin." Science 272, 1310 - 1314.
Combi, M.R., M.A. DiSanti, and U. Fink (1997). "The spatial distribution of gaseous atomic sodium in the comae of comets: Evidence for direct nucleus and extended plasma sources." Icarus 130, 336 - 354.
Dello Russo, N., M.A. DiSanti, M.J. Mumma, K. Magee-Sauer, T.W. Rettig (1998). "Carbonyl sulfide in comets C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Evidence for an extended source in Hale-Bopp. Icarus 135, 377 - 388.
DiSanti, M.A., M.J. Mumma, N. Dello Russo, K. Magee-Sauer, R. Novak, T.W. Rettig (1999). "Identification of two sources of carbon monoxide in comet Hale-Bopp." Nature 399, 662 - 665. (follow-up paper in preparation for Icarus)
Dello Russo, N., M.J. Mumma, M.A. DiSanti, K. Magee-Sauer, R. Novak, T.W. Rettig. "Water production and release in comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp." Submitted to Icarus.
Magee-Sauer, K., M.J. Mumma, M.A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, T.W. Rettig. "Infrared spectroscopy of the n3 band of hydrogen cyanide in comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp." Submitted to Icarus.
Mumma, M.J., M.A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, K. Magee-Sauer, T.W. Rettig. "Detection of depleted ethane in comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner: Evidence for variable chemistry in the outer solar nebula." Submitted to Ap. J. Lett.