CURRICULUM VITAE                  John J. Matese
 

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Date - Place of Birth:             May l, 1938 - Chicago, Illinois,USA

Address:             Department of Physics
                            University of  Louisiana at Lafayette
                            Lafayette, LA 70504-4210

Education :         Institution                               Degree          Date                              Major
                            DePaul University                      B.S.              1960                               Physics
                            University of Notre Dame   Ph.D.            1966                               Theoretical Physics

Positions Held:   Institution                                                Dates                             Last Position
                            Department of Physics                               1965-1966                      Instructor
                            University of Notre Dame
                            Notre Dame, IN

                            Department of Physics and Astronomy      1966-1972                       Assistant Professor
                            Louisiana State University
                            Baton Rouge, LA

                            Department of Physics                              1972-present                    Emeritus Professor
                            University of  Louisiana
                            Lafayette, LA

                            NASA                                                      1974-1975                      Summer Faculty Fellow
                            Lewis Research Center
                            Cleveland, OH

                            NASA                                                      1988-1989, 2000-2002  Summer Faculty Fellow
                            Ames Research Center
                            Moffett Field, CA

Field of Specialization: Minor- (Dwarf-) planet astrophysics
Research Interests:     Planetary dynamics, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, stellar dust disks, perturbed binary dynamics.
Professional Societies: International Astronomical Union
                                      American Astronomical Society / Division for Planetary Sciences
                                      Sigma Pi Sigma - National Physics Honor Society
 

Presentations - Abstracts:

• "Is The Perihelion Asymmetry in the Nongravitational Force Acting on Comet 1960 II (Burnham ) Due to Its Passage Through the Taurid Stream?"           IAU Symposium 160 - Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (abstract) 207 (1993) (14-18 June, Belgirate, Italy).
• "Solar Motion in the Galaxy and its Effect on the Comet Flux Via the Changing Tides" IAU Symposium 160 - Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (abstract) 299 (1993) (14-18 June, Belgirate,Italy).
• "The Oort Cloud and Galactic Tides" Invited Seminar (19 May-3 June, 1993, Tuorla Observatory, Turku University, Turku, Finland).
• "Eruptions and Splittings of New Comets". Workshop - Catastrophic Collisions and Disruptions of Small Solar System Bodies (21-23 June, 1993 Gubbio, Italy).
•  "Modulating Terrestrial Impacts From Oort Cloud Comets by the Adiabatically Changing Galactic Tides". New Developments in the KT Event , LPI Contribution (abstract) 78 (1994) ( February 9-12, Houston TX) .
•  "Modulating Terrestrial Impacts From Oort Cloud Comets by the Adiabatically Changing Galactic Tides". Small Bodies in the Solar System and their Interaction with the Planets (abstract) 105 (1994) (August 8-12, Mariehamn, AlandFinland).
• "Imprint of the Galactic radial tide on the Oort Comet Cloud". Asteroids,Comets, Meteors (abstract) 89 (1996) (8-12 July, Versailles,France)
• "Looking at the Oort Comet Cloud: Seeing the Galaxy". Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Symposium Honoring the 90th Birthday of Fred Whipple. Invited talk (1996) (4-6 November, Cambridge, MA)
• "Oort Cloud Comet Perihelion Asymmetries: Galactic Tide, Shower or Observational Bias?". Symposium on the Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and their Roles in Earth History (1997) (13-16 August, Shiga-Kyoto, Japan).
• "Variable Oort Cloud Flux due to the Galactic Tide". Joint Discussion Group 6 of the 23^rd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (1997) (22-23 August, Kyoto, Japan).
• "The Signature of Bound Jovian Bodies in the Outer Oort Cloud". Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (1999) (abstract) 133 (1999) (26-30 July, Ithaca, New York)
• "Cometary Evidence of a Massive Body in the Outer Oort Cloud" BAAS (31st DPS) 31, 1079 (1999) (10-16 October, Padova, Italy)
• "Supportive Evidence of a Brown Dwarf Solar Companion" (abstract) IAU 24th General Assembly Symposium 202 "Planets in the Universe" , 43 (2000) (7-18 August, Manchester UK)
• "Characteristics of a Weak Stellar Shower of Oort Cloud Comets" (abstract) BAAS (32nd DPS) 32, 1063 (2000) (23-27 October, Pasadena CA)
• "Frequency of Weak Stellar Showers of Oort Cloud Comets" (abstract) BAAS (33rd DPS) 33, 1094 (2001) (27 November-1 December New orleans LA)
• "Continuing Evidence of an Impulsive Component of Oort Cloud Cometary Fux", (abstract) ESA-Asteroids,Comets, Meteors 2002, 50 (2002) (29 July-2 August), Berlin, Germany)
• "Tightly Bound New Comets More Likely to be Seen Before Reaching Perihelion Minimum" (abstract) BAAS (35th DPS) 35, 1094(2003) (1-6 September, Monterey, CA)
• "Torques on Sedna by a Putative Body in the Oort Cloud" (abstract) BAAS (36th DPS) 36, 1082 (2004) (8-10 November,Louisville, KY)
• "A Wide-Binary Solar Companion as a Possible Origin of Sedna-Like Objects", (abstract) IAU Symposium 229-Asteroids,Comets, Meteors 2005, 54 (2005) (7-12 August), Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• "Searching the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits for evidence of an impulsive component of Oort cloud flux", (invited talk) Lille Observatory Workshop
  « Dynamics and Formation of the Oort Cloud », (2011) ( 27 – 30 September), Lille, France
• "Searching the WISE preliminary catalog for massive planets in the Oort cloud", (contributed talk) EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011
  La Cité Internationale des Congrès Nantes Métropole (2011) ( 02 – 07 October), Nantes, France
  
  
  
  
  

Other Presentations:
Additional presentations - with unreviewed abstracts - of refereed publications 3, 7, 10, 15, 17, 18, 24, 29, 30, 31, 35, 39, 40, 44, 46 have been given at meetings of the American Physical Society; the Louisiana Academy of Science; the International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions; the Texas Symposiums in Relativistic Astrophysics; the American Astronomical Society; the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Interacting Binaries; the Division for Planetary Science of the AAS; Symposiums on the Interaction of the Galaxy and the Solar System; the IAU Symposium 135 on Interstellar Dust; and the Conference on Asteroids, Comets, Meteors.

Refereed Publications: John J. Matese

1. "Influence of Screening on the Atomic Photoeffect", Phys. Rev. 140, A1 (1965). Dissertation. J. J. Matese and W. R. Johnson

2. "Screening Corrections to the Fermi Function for Allowed Beta Decay", Phys. Rev. 150, 846 (1966). J. J. Matese and W. R. Johnson

3. "Static Nuclear Deformation Effects in Internal Conversion", Phys. Rev. 173, 1165 (1968). J. J. Matese

4. "Effects of a Constant Magnetic Field on the Neutron Beta Decay Rate and Its Astrophysical Implications", Nature 222, 649 (1969).
R.F. O'Connell and J. J. Matese

5. "Neutron Beta Decay in a Uniform Constant Magnetic Field", Phys. Rev. 180, 1289 (1969). R. F. O'Connell and J. J. Matese

6. "Effect of a Constant Magnetic Field on the Beta Decay Rate of a Neutron Immersed in a Completely Degenerate Electron Gas", Phys. Letters 29A, 533 (1969). R. F. O'Connell and J. J. Matese

7. "Photoionization of Lithium by the Method of Polarized Orbitals", Phys. Rev. 188, 17 (1969). J. J. Matese and R. W. LaBahn

8. "Production of Helium in the Big-Bang Expansion of a Magnetic Universe", Ap. J. 160, 451 (1970). R.F. O'Connell and J. J. Matese

9. "Elastic Scattering of Positrons from Hydrogen: An Optical Potential Calculation", Phys. Rev. A3, 928 (1971). J. J. Matese and A.C. Fung

10. "Photodetachment of the Negative Hydrogen Ion", Proceedings of VII ICPEAC (North-Holland, Amsterdam) 210 (1971). J. J. Matese and R.S. Oberoi

11. "Investigation of the Electron-Atomic Hydrogen System Using a Pseudo-State Expansion", Phys. Rev. A4, 569 (1971). J. J. Matese

12. "Autoionization States of Li^- and Na^-", Phys. Rev. A5, 22 (1972). J. J. Matese and A.C. Fung.

13. "Combined Variable Phase-R Matrix Approach to Scattering Problems", Phys. Rev. A5, 222 (1972). J. J. Matese and R. J. W. Henry

14. "Calculational Procedure for Electron-Atom Scattering at Arbitrary Energies", Int. J. Quant. Chem. 6, 79 (1972). J. Callaway and J. J. Matese

15. "Autodetachment States of O^-", Phys. Rev. A7, 846 (1973).  J. J. Matese, R. J. W. Henry and S. P. Rountree

16. "Doubly Excited Feshbach Resonances in Cl^- ", Phys. Rev. A8, 2965 (1973). J. J. Matese, R. J. W. Henry and S.P. Rountree

17. "Doubly Excited States of C^- and O^-", Phys. Rev. A10, 454 (1974). J. J. Matese

18. "Excitation of He⁺ by Electron Impact", Phys. Rev. A12, 1368 (1976). R. J. W. Henry and J. J. Matese

19. "Excitation of Be⁺ by Electron Impact", Phys. Rev. A14, 798 (1978). R. J. W. Henry, J. J. Matese and W. L. van Wyngaarden

20. "Effect of Strong Gravity on the Optical Appearance of Rapidly Fluctuating Astronomical Sources", Ap. J. 226, 501 (1978). J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

21. "Implications of Emission Zone Limits for the Ruderman - Sutherland Pulsar Model", Ap. J. 235, 587 (1980). J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

22. "The Slaved Disk Model for SS 433", M.N.R.A.S. 193, 707 (1980). D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Matese

23. "A New Method for Extracting Static Equilibrium Configurations in General Relativity", Phys. Rev. D 22, 1270 (1980). J. J. Matese and P. G. Whitman.

24. "Implications of the Absence of Eclipsing in SS 433", M.N.R.A.S. 194, 293 (1981). D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Matese

25. "Lagrangian Mechanics for Open Systems", Eur. J. Phys. 2, 103 (1981). R. L. Greene and J. J. Matese

26. "Supermassive Binaries in Active Galactic Nuclei", Nature 293, 722 (1981). D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Matese

27. "The 6-Day Photometric and Spectroscopic Periods in SS 433", Astron. Astrophys. 106, L9 (1982). J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

28. "Time Domain Analysis of Acoustic Transmission by Dense Thin Films", Am. J. Phys. 50, No. 11, 1031 (1982). L. D. Lafleur, J. J. Matese and R. L. Spross

29. "Alternate Period Changes in Close Binary Systems", Astron. Astrophys. 117, L7 (1983). J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

30. "Conservative Mass Transfer in Close Binary Systems. I. Equations of Motion for Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta", Ap. J. 266, 776 (1983).
J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

31. "Conservative Mass Transfer. II. The Effective Perturbing Force: Equations of Motion for the Eccentricity and Orbital Period", Ap. J. 282, 522 (1984).
J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

32. "Periodic Comet Showers and Planet X", Nature 3123, 36 (1985). D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Matese

33. "Generalized Lagrangian Orbital Elements for Central Force Problems", Cel. Mech. 36, 71 (1985). P. G. Whitman and J. J. Matese

34. "Planet X and the Origins of the Shower and Steady State Flux of Short Period Comets", Icarus 65, 37 (1986). J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

35. "Planet X as the Source of the Periodic and Steady State Flux of Short Period Comets", Invited Review chapter, The Galaxy and the Solar System, 297 (1986) Eds. R. Smoluchowski,, J. N. Bahcall and M. S. Matthews, U. Arizona Press.  J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

36. "Acoustic Refraction by a Spark Discharge in Air", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 81, 606 (1987).
L. D. Lafleur, J. J. Matese and R.L. Spross

37. "A Brown Dwarf Companion as an Explanation of the Asymmetry in the Beta Pictoris Disk", Astron. Astrophys. Lett. 203 , L13 (1988).
D. P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese and L. Tomley

38. "Dust Clouds Around Red Giant Stars: Evidence of Sublimating Comet Disks?", Icarus 81, 24 (1989). J. J. Matese, D.P. Whitmire and R. T. Reynolds

39. "Sublimating Icy Planetesimals as the Source of Nucleating Seeds for Grain Condensation in Classical Novae", IAU Symposium 135: Interstellar Dust, NASA Conference Publication 3036, 485 (1989). J. J. Matese, D. P. Whitmire and R. T. Reynolds

40. "Sublimating Comets as the Source of Nucleating Seeds for Grain Condensation in the Gas Outflow from AGB Stars", IAU Symposium 135: Interstellar Dust, NASA Conference Publication 3036, 495 (1989).  D. P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese and R. T. Reynolds

41. "The Galactic Disk Tidal Field and the Non-Random Distribution of Observed Oort Cloud Comets", Icarus 82, 389 (1989). J. J. Matese and P.G. Whitman

42. "Dynamical Capture of Field Stars by Collapsing Interstellar Clouds", Astron. Astrophys. 245, 75 (1991). P.G. Whitman, J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

43. "Gravitationally Unbound Comets Move in Predominantly Retrograde Orbits", Nature 352, 506 (1991). J. J. Matese, P.G. Whitman and D.P. Whitmire

44. "Comet Nongravitational Forces and Meteoritic Impacts", ACM '91, 399 (1992) Eds. A. W. Harris and E. Bowell (LPI, Houston TX).
J. J. Matese, P.G. Whitman and D.P. Whitmire

45. "Velocity Streaming of IRAS Main Sequence Disk Stars and the Episodic Enhancement of Particulate-Disks By interstellar Clouds", Ap.J 388, 190 (1992).
D.P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese and P.G. Whitman

46. "A Model of the Galactic Tidal Interaction with the Oort Comet Cloud",
(a) Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 54, 13 (1992).  J. J. Matese and P.G. Whitman
(b) Dynamics and Evolution of Minor Bodies with Galactic Implications, 13 (1992), Eds. Clube, S. V. M., Yabsushita, S. and Henrard, J., Kluwer, Dordrecht. 
J. J. Matese and P. G. Whitman

47. "The Interaction Between Dust Disks and the Interstellar Medium", in Proceedings of the Rutherford-Appleton Annual Astronomy and Astrophysics workshop on Dust Disks, RAL-92-084, Ed. P. M. Gondhalekar, 186 (1992). D. P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese and P. G. Whitman

48. "Astrophysical Constraints on Exobiological Habitats", The Third US-USSR SETI Conference, Conference Proceedings of the PASP. Ed. S. Shostak: U. of Calif. Press, 199 (1992). L. R. Doyle, C. McKay, D. P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese, R. T. Reynolds and W. Davis

49. "Meteoroid Streams as Probes of the Subsurface Regions of Comets", Icarus 109 , 258 (1994). J. J. Matese and P. G. Whitman

50. "A Slightly More Massive Young Sun as an Explanation for Warm Temperatures on Early Mars", Jour. Geophys. Res. 100  No.E3 , 5457 (1995).
D. P. Whitmire, L. R. Doyle, R. T. Reynolds and J. J. Matese

51. "Circumstellar Habitable Zones and Mass Loss from Young Solar-Type Stars. I. Theory", Fourth International Bioastronomy Symposium: Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Ed. S. Shostak: U. of Calif. Press, PASP Conference Proceedings, 183 (1995).
D. P. Whitmire, L. R. Doyle, R. T. Reynolds and  J. J. Matese

52. "Periodic Modulation of the Oort Cloud Comet Flux by the Adiabatically Changing Galactic Tide", Icarus, 116 , 227(1995).
J. J. Matese, P. G. Whitman, M. J. Valtonen and K. A. Innanen

53. "Near-Earth Populations of Bodies Coming From the Oort Cloud and Their Impacts With Planets", Earth Moon Planets, 71, 219 (1995).
M. J. Valtonen, J. Q. Zheng, J. J. Matese and P. G. Whitman

54. "Why We Study the Geological Record for Evidence of the Solar Oscillation about the Galactic Midplane",
(a) Earth Moon Planets, 72, 7 (1996).
(b) Worlds in Interaction:Small Bodies and Planets of the Solar System , 7 (1996). Eds. H. Rickman and M. J. Valtonen, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
J. J. Matese, P. G. Whitman, M. J. Valtonen and K. A. Innanen

55. "Tidal Imprint of Distant Galactic Matter on the Oort Comet Cloud", ApJ Letters 472 L41 (1996) .  J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire

56.  "Oort Cloud Comet Perihelion Asymmetries: Galactic Tide, Shower or Observational Bias?" Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 69, 77 (1998).
J. J. Matese, P. G. Whitman and D. P. Whitmire

57. "Habitable Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems" Icarus 132, 196 (1998).  D. P. Whitmire, J. J. Matese, L. Criswell and S. Mikkola

58. "Variability of the Oort Cloud Comet Flux: Can it be Manifest in the Cratering Record?". IAU-Highlights in Astronomy. Ed. J. Anderson, Kluwer, Dordrecht 11A 252 (1998). 
J. J. Matese, P. G. Whitman, K. A. Innanen and M. J. Valtonen

59. "Cometary Evidence of a Massive Body in the Outer Oort Cloud", Icarus 141, 354 (1999).
J. J. Matese, P. G. Whitman and D. P. Whitmire

60. "Variable Oort Cloud Flux Due to the Galactic Tide" in Collisional Processes in the Solar System , Eds. M. Marov, H. Rickman, Astrophysics and Space Science Library 261, 91 (2001). 
 J. J. Matese, K. A. Innanen and M. J. Valtonen

61. "Continuing Evidence of an Impulsive Component of Oort Cloud Cometary Fux", Proceedings of the Conference Asteroids,Comets, Meteors 2002, ESA SP-500, 309(2002) .
 J. J. Matese and J. J. Lissauer

62. "Characteristics and Frequency of Weak Stellar Impulses of the Oort Cloud". Icarus 157, 228 (2002).
 J. J. Matese and J. J. Lissauer

63. "The Pioneer 10 Anomalous Acceleration and Oort Cloud Comets", Icarus 165, 219 (2003).
 D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Matese

64. "Perihelion Evolution of Observed New Comets implies the Dominance of the Galactic Tide in Making Oort Cloud Comets Discernable", Icarus 170 , 508 (2004).
 J. J. Matese and J. J. Lissauer

65. Comparison Between Different Models of Galactic Tidal Effects on Cometary Orbits", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 93, 229 (2005).
M. Fouchard, C. Froeschle,  J. J. Matese, and G. Valsecchi

66. "A Wide-Binary Solar Companion as a Possible Origin of Sedna-like Objects", IAU 229 (ACM 2005) Proceedings: Earth Moon Planets 97, 459 (2005).
 J. J. Matese, D. P. Whitmire and J. J. Lissauer

67. "A Distant Planetary-Mass Solar Companion May Have Produced Distant Detached Objects", Icarus 184, 589 (2006)
 R. S. Gomes', J. J. Matese and J. J. Lissauer

68. "Persistent evidence of a jovian mass solar companion in the Oort cloud", Icarus 211, 926 (2011).
  J. J. Matese and D. P. Whitmire