Publications

Publications, Seminars, and Talks

• C. F. Chyba, K. P. Hand, F. S. Thomson, "Electrical Heating of Planetary Satellites: Europa and Enceladus", manuscript in preparation for submission to Science.

• F. S. Thomson, E. A. Marouf, G. L. Tyler, "Diffraction Theory Modeling of Near-Forward Radio Wave Scattering from Aggregates of Particles", manuscript in preparation for submission to Icarus.

• F. S. Thomson, G. L. Tyler, "Radon and Abel Transform Equivalence in Atmospheric Radio Occultation", manuscript in preparation for submission to the Journal of Geophysical Research.

• F. S. Thomson, C. F. Chyba, "Integral and Differential Forms of Faraday's Law for Systems in Motion, with Applications to Jupiter's Moon Europa", manuscript in preparation for submission to the American Journal of Physics.

• F. S. Thomson, E. A. Marouf, R. French, N. Rappoport, H. Salo, G. L. Tyler, A. Anabtawi, "Statistical Modeling and Characterization of Microstructure in Saturn's Rings", To be presented at the 2006 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 11-15, 2006.

• F. S. Thomson, E. A. Marouf, G. L. Tyler, "Near-Forward Scattering from Particle Aggregate Ring Models", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.561, 2006.

• F. S. Thomson, K. Wong, E. Marouf, N. Rappoport, R. French, C. McGhee, "Scattered Signal Observations During Cassini Radio Occultations by Saturn's Rings", 2005 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005.

• E. Marouf, R. French, N. Rappoport, C. McGhee, K. Wong, F. S. Thomson, "Cassini Radio Occultations Results for Saturn's Rings", 2005 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005.

• F. S. Thomson, K. Wong, E. Marouf, R. French, N. Rappoport, C. McGhee, A. Anabtawi, S. Asmar, E. Barbinis, D. Fleishman, G. Goltz, D. Johnston, D. Rochblatt, "Cassini Radio Occultations of Saturn's Rings: Scattered Signal and Particle Sizes", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.762, 2005.

• E. Marouf, R. French, N. Rappoport, A. Kliore, M. Flazar, A. Nagy, C. McGhee, P. Schindler, A. Anabtawi, S. Asmar, E. Barbinis, D. Fleishman, G. Goltz, D. Johnston, D. Rochblatt, F. S. Thomson, K. Wong, "Structure of Saturn's Rings from Cassini Diametric Radio Occultations", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.763, 2005.

• F. S. Thomson, S. Asmar, K. Oudrhiri, "Allan Variance and the Power-Law Form of S_y(f): Convergence of the Exact and Approximate Solutions of the Integral Transform Relation", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 52, No. 9, September 2005, pp. 1468-1473.

• E. Marouf, R. French, N. Rappoport, F. Thomson, C. McGhee, S. Asmar, D. Johnston, "Cassini SOI Radio Occultation of Saturn's Rings", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1078, 2004.

• F. S. Thomson, R. R. Mansour, S. Ye, W. Jolley, "Current Density and Power Handling of High Temperature Superconductive Resonators and Filters on Microstrip", IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 1998, pp. 85-93.

• Antonio Romano, Raafat R. Mansour, Fraser Thomson, "A Hybrid Superconductive/Semiconductive Microwave Receiver", IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1997, pp. 3067-3070.

• R. Mansour, B. Jolley, V. Dokas, S. Ye, F. Thomson, N. Sultan, G. Seguon and S. Khanna, "High Temperature Superconductive High Power Output Multiplexers", 9th CASI Conference on Astronautics, Ottawa, November 1996.

• R. R. Mansour, B. Jolley, S. Ye, F. Thomson, V. Dokas, "On the Power Handling Capability of High Temperature Superconductive Filters", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1996, pp.1322-1338.

• R. R. Mansour, B. Jolley, V. Dokas, S. Ye, F. Thomson, "Design of High Power Superconductive Output Multiplexers", 1996 IEEE MTT Symposium Digest, pp.1485-1487.

• R. Mansour, B. Jolley, S. Ye, F. Thomson and V. Dokas, "Assessment of the Power Handling Capability of HTS Filters", Workshop on the Role of Superconducting Technology in Wireless Communications Systems, IEEE MTT Symposium, San Francisco, June 1996.

• F. S. Thomson, "Transversal and Elliptic Function Microwave Filters on Microstrip Utilizing High-Temperature Superconductive Thin Films", M.Eng Thesis, McMaster University (Canada), May 1996.

• F. S. Thomson, "Performance Target for a First Generation C-Band Superconductive Output Multiplexer", COM DEV Technical Note TNO/COM/0134, COM DEV Ltd., Cambridge, Canada, August 1995.

• R. R. Mansour, V. Dokas, F. Thomson, S. Ye, W. Jolley, "Applications of High Temperature Superconductivity to Satellite Output Multiplexers". Seminar given by F. Thomson to the Analog Device Technology Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), June 27, 1995.

• R. R. Mansour, V. Dokas, F. Thomson, S. Ye, W. Jolley, "Applications of High Temperature Superconductivity to Satellite Output Multiplexers", Workshop on Systems Applications of High Temperature Superconductors in Cryogenic Electronics, IEEE MTT Symposium, Orlando, May 1995.