1. Belskaya, I. N.; Bagnulo, S.; Barucci, M. A.; Muinonen, Karri; Tozzi, G. P.; Fornasier, S.; Kolokolova, L.: Polarime-try of Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs with VLT. Aster-oids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Balti-more, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8172.
2. Belskaya, I. N.; Levasseur-Regourd, A.-C.; Shkuratov, Y. G.;
Muinonen, Karri: Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs from Photometry and Polarimetry. The Solar System Beyond Neptune, M. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D.
P. Cruikshank, and A. Morbidelli (eds.), University of Ari-zona Press, Tucson, pp. 115–127
3. Boehnhardt, H.; Tozzi, G. P.; Bagnulo, S.; Muinonen, Kar-ri; Nathues, A.; Kolokolova, L.: Imaging and Polarimetry of the Nucleus of Comet 2P/Encke. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8005.
4. Dieball, A.; Knigge, C.; Zurek, D. R.; Shara, M. M.; Long, K. S.; Charles, P. A.; Hannikainen, Diana: Unveiling the Core of M 15 in the Far-Ultraviolet. Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. IAU Symp. 246 (2008): 361–362.
5. Dotto, E.; Barucci, M. A.; Yoshikawa, M.; Koschny, D.;
Boehnhardt, H.; Brucato, J. R.; Coradini, M.; Franchi, I. A.;
Green, S. F.; Josset, J. L.; Kawaguchi, J.; Michel, P.; Muino-nen, Karri; Oberst, J.; Yano, H.; Binzel, R. P.: Marco Polo:
Near Earth Object sample return mission. Memorie della So-cieta Astronomica Italiana Supplement 12 (2008): 102–109.
6. Erkkil¨a, Hannakaisa; Muinonen, Karri: Light scatter-ing by inhomogeneous concave-hulltransformed clusters of spheres. 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Confer-ence, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 9–12.
7. Foing, B. H.; Koschny, D.; Grieger, B.; Josset, J.-L.; Beau-vivre, S.; Grande, M.; Huovelin, Juhani; Keller, H. U.; Mall, U.; Nathues, A.; Malkki, A.; Noci, G.; Sodnik, Z.; Kel-lett, B.; Pinet, P.; Chevrel, S.; Cerroni, P.; de Sanctis, M.
C.; Barucci, M. A.; Erard, S.; Despan, D.; Muinonen, Kar-ri; Shevchenko, V.; Shkuratov, Y.; Ellouzi, M.; Peters, S.;
Almeida, M.; Frew, D.; Volp, J.; Heather, D.; McMannamon, P.; Camino, O.; Racca, G.: SMART-1 Lunar Highlights. 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Plan-etary Science XXXIX), held March 10–14, 2008 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1391, 1987.
8. Grande, M.; Maddison, B.; Sreekumar, P.; Huovelin, Juha-ni; Kellett, B.; Howe, C. J.; Crawford, I. A.; Holland, A.:
The C1XS X-Ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1. 39th Lu-nar and Planetary Science Conference, (LuLu-nar and Planetary Science XXXIX), held March 10–14, 2008 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1391, 1620.
9. Granvik, Mikael; Muinonen, Karri: New Method for Iden-tifying Asteroids over Apparitions Among a Wealth of Scarce Astrometry. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–
18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No.
1405, 8205.
10. Granvik, Mikael; Virtanen, Jenni; Muinonen, Karri:
OpenOrb: Open-Source Asterod-Orbit-Computation Soft-ware Including Statistical Orbital Ranging. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8206.
11. Grieger, B.; Foing, B. H.; Koschny, D.; Josset, J. L.; Beau-vivre, S.; Frew, D.; Almeida, M.; Sarkarati, M.; Volp, J.; Pinet, P.; Chevrel, S.; Cerroni, P.; de Sanctis, M. C.;
Barucci, M. A.; Erard, S.; Despan, D.; Muinonen, Kar-ri; Shevchenko, V.; Shkuratov, Y.; El-louzi, M.; Peters, S.;
Grande, M.; Huovelin, Juhani; Nathues, A.; Malkki, A.;
Noci, G.; Kellett, B.; Cook, A. C.: Heather, D.; Zender, J.; McMannamon, P.; Schwehm, G.; Camino, O.; Blake, R.: Coverage and Pointing Accuracy of SMART-1/AMIE Im-ages. 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX), held March 10–14, 2008 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1391, 2221.
12. Hannikainen, Diana; Rodriguez, J.: GRS 1915+105: A Snapshot with INTEGRAL. A population explosion: The Na-ture & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments, AIP Conf. Proc.1010 (2008): 85–87.
13. Hildebrand, A. R.; Tedesco, E. F.; Carroll, K. A.; Cardinal, R. D.; Matthews, J. M.; Gladman, B.; Kaiser, N. R.; Brown, P. G.; Wiegert, P.; Larson, S. M.; Worden, S. P.; Wallace, B. J.; Chodas, P. W.; Granvik, Mikael; Gural, P.: The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) Mission Will Conduct an Efficient Space-Based Asteroid Survey at Low Solar Elongations. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8293.
14. Juvela, Mika; Goncalves, J.; Pelkonen, Veli–Matti; Luntti-la, Tuomas: Modelling polarized radiation from interstellar clouds. EAS Publications Ser. 31 (2008): 179–180.
15. Koschny, D.; Barucci, A.; Yoshikawa, M.; B¨ohnhardt, H.;
Brucato, J.; Coradini, M.; Dotto, E.; Franchi, I.; Green, S.;
Josset, J.-L.; Kawaguchi, J.; Michel, P.; Muinonen, Karri;
Oberst, J.; Yano, H.; Binzel, R.; Agnolon, D.; Romstedt, J.:
Marco Polo – A Mission to Return a Sample from a Near-Earth Object. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No.
1405, paper id. 8227.
16. Koschny, D.; Foing, B. H.; Frew, D.; Grieger, B.; Almeida, M.; Sarkarati, M.; Volp, J.; Josset, J.-L.; Beauvivre, S.;
Grande, M.; Huovelin, Juhani; Nathues, A.; Malkki, A.;
Noci, G.; Kellett, B.; Heather, D. J.; Zender, J.; McMan-namon, P.; Schwehm, G.; Camino, O.; Blake, R.: SMART-1 Lunar Science Planning. 39th Lunar and Planetary Sci-ence ConferSci-ence, (Lunar and Planetary SciSci-ence XXXIX),
held March 10–14, 2008 in League City, Texas. LPI Con-tribution No. 1391, 2282.
17. Lindegren, L.; Bijaoui, A.; Brown, A. G. A.; Drimmel, R.;
Eyer, L.; Jordan, S.; Kontizas, M.; van Leeuwen, F.; Muino-nen, Karri; Pourbaix, D.; Torra, J.; Turon, C.; de Vries, J.;
Zwitter, T.: ELSA training the next generation of space as-trometrists. A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. IAU Symp. 248 (2008): 529–530.
18. Lindfors, E. J.; T ¨urler, M.; Hannikainen, Diana: Syn-chrotron Flaring Behaviour of Cygnus X-3. A population explosion: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Di-verse Environments, AIP Conf. Proc.1010 (2008): 91–93.
19. Muinonen, Karri: Lightcurve Inversion Using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo Methods. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8315.
20. Muinonen, Karri; Cellino, A.; Belskaya, I.; Delbo, M.;
Levasseur-Regourd, A.-C.; Tedesco, E. F.: Inversion of As-teroid Phase Curves for Empirical Magnitude and Polariza-tion Systems. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No.
1405, paper id. 8263.
21. Muinonen, Karri; Nousiainen, T.; Munoz, O.; Erkki-l¨a, Hannakaisa; Videen, G.: Ray-optics radiative-transfer method for scattering by inhomogeneous Gaussian random particles 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Confer-ence, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 133–136.
22. Muinonen, Karri; Oszkiewicz, Dagmara: Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo inversion of asteroid photometric lightcurves.
11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, Ex-tended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hert-fordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 181–184.
23. Muinonen, Karri; Parviainen, Hannu; N¨ar¨anen, Jyri;
Videen, G.: Scalar approximation to coherent backscattering by spherical media. 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scatter-ing Conference, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 185–188.
24. Nousiainen, T.; Zubko, E.; Niemi, J.; Kupiainen, K.; Lehti-nen, M.; MuinoLehti-nen, Karri; and Videen, G.: Optical mod-eling of thin calcite flakes using DDA. 11th Electromag-netic and Light Scattering Conference, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hat-field, U.K.) 137–140.
25. Oszkiewicz, Dagmara; Muinonen, Karri; Mouret, Serge;
Granvik, Mikael; Virtanen, Jenni: Markov-chain Monte-Carlo methods for asteroid orbit computation. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, 8221.
26. Parviainen, Hannu; Muinonen, Karri: A Realistic Light-Scattering Model for Rough Particulate Surfaces. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14–18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8317.
27. Parviainen, Hannu; Muinonen, Karri: Volume and surface shadowing in particulate random media. 11th Electromag-netic and Light Scattering Conference, Extended Abstracts
(September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hat-field, U.K.) 73–76.
28. Prat, L.; Rodriguez, J.; Hannikainen, Diana: RXTE and IN-TEGRAL Observations of IGR J19140+0951. A population explosion: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Di-verse Environments, AIP Conf. Proc.1010 (2008): 266–268.
29. Tyynel¨a, Jani; Nousiainen, T.; G¨oke, S.; Muinonen, Karri:
Modeling polarization radar echoes of hydrometeors using discrete-dipoles approximation. 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, Extended Abstracts (Septem-ber 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 267–270.
30. Tyynel¨a, Jani; Zubko, E.; Videen, G.; Muinonen, Kar-ri: Angular-scattering, negative-polarization, and intensity-enhancement studies of spheroids. 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 97–
100.
31. Virtanen, Jenni; Tancredi, G.; Bernstein, G. M.; Spahr, T.;
Muinonen, Karri: Transneptunian Orbit Computation. The Solar System Beyond Neptune, M. A. Barucci, H. Boehn-hardt, D. P. Cruikshank, and A. Morbidelli (eds.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 25–40
32. V¨a¨an¨anen, Mikko: Time evolution of the size of solar flare plasma loops along the main sequence. Particle acceleration and transport in the heliosphere and beyond, 7th Annual In-ternational Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proc.
1039 (2008): 40–45.
33. Zubko, E.; Kimura, H.; Shkuratov, Yu.; Muinonen, Karri;
Yamamoto, T.; Videen, G.: Light Scattering by Highly Ab-sorbing Irregularly Shaped Particles. 71st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held July 28–August 1, 2008 in Mat-sue, Japan. Meteoritics and Planetary Science Supplement 43 (2008): paper id. 5173.
34. Zubko, E.; Kimura, H.; Shkuratov, Y.; Muinonen, Karri;
Yamamoto, T.; Videen, G.: Light scattering by agglomer-ated debris particles composed of highly absorbing material.
11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, Ex-tended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hert-fordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 213–216.
35. Zubko, E.; Petrov, D.; Shkuratov, Y.; Okamoto, H.; Muino-nen, Karri; Kimura, H.; Yamamoto, T.; Videen, G.: Appli-cability of discrete-dipole approximation to conductive par-ticles. 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Confer-ence, Extended Abstracts (September 7–12, 2008, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.) 117–120.
7 Observatory Board 2007–2009
Director Doc. Lauri Jetsu
Professors
Prof. Kalevi Mattila Staff
Doc. Mika Juvela (Doc. Diana Hannikainen) Doc. Karri Muinonen (Doc. Juhani Huovelin)
Students
Karri Koljonen (Mikko Eronen
until 18.11.2008, replaced by Jussi Aaltonen)
Suvi Jentze (Johanna Mynttinen
until 22.5.2008,
replaced by Merli Lahtinen, replaced by Merli Lahtinen replaced by Petri Huhtanen) from 26.8.2008
Figure 13: Observatory faculty and staffat the Observatory biannual planning day.
8 Academic degrees after 1995
Year Degree Supervisor(s)
1995 Ph.D. Pasi Hakala O. Vilhu
1995 Ph.D. Juri Poutanen D.I. Nagirner, O. Vilhu 1995 M.Sc. Diana Hannikainen O. Vilhu
1996 Ph.Lic. P¨aivi Harjunp¨a¨a T. Liljestr¨om, K. Mattila
1997 Ph.D. Mika Juvela K. Mattila
1997 M.Sc . Thomas Hackman I. Tuominen 1997 M.Sc. Asko Palviainen J. Harju, K. Mattila 1998 Ph.D. Kimmo Lehtinen J. Harju, K. Mattila 1999 Ph.D. Diana Hannikainen O. Vilhu
1999 Ph.D. Jukka Piironen K. Muinonen 1999 M.Sc. Jere Kahanp¨a¨a M. Juvela, K. Mattila
1999 M.Sc. Juho Schultz P. Hakala
1999 M.Sc. Johanna Torppa M. Kaasalainen 1999 M.Sc. Jenni Virtanen K. Muinonen 2000 Ph.D. Jukka Nevalainen O. Vilhu 2001 Ph.D. Petri V¨aisanen K. Mattila
2001 M.Sc. Peter Johansson K.J. Donner, P. V¨ais¨anen 2003 Ph.D. Sanna Kaasalainen K. Muinonen, J. Piironen 2003 M.Sc. Mikael Granvik K. Muinonen
2003 M.Sc. Jyri N¨ar¨anen J. Peltoniemi, J. Piironen 2003 M.Sc. Cajus Pomr´en J. Harju
2003 M.Sc. Ky¨osti Ryyn¨anen M. Kaasalainen, J. Piironen
2003 M.Sc. Jani Tyynel¨a K. Lumme
2004 M.Sc. Jouni Kainulainen J. Harju, K. Lehtinen, K. Mattila 2004 M.Sc. Jari Rantala M. Kaasalainen
2005 Ph.D. Thomas Hackman L. Jetsu, I. Tuominen 2005 Ph.D. Jenni Virtanen K. Muinonen 2005 M.Sc. Kristiina Byckling P. Hakala
2005 M.Sc. Oskari Miettinen J. Harju, L. Haikala 2006 Ph.D. P¨aivi Harjunp¨a¨a J. Harju, K. Mattila 2006 Ph.D. Petri K¨apyl¨a M. Korpi, I. Tuominen 2006 Ph.D. Juho Schultz D. Hannikainen, O. Vilhu 2006 M.Sc. Onni J¨arvinen K. Muinonen, J. Piironen 2006 M.Sc. Tuomas Lehto P. Hein¨am¨aki, P. Teerikorpi 2006 M.Sc. Anne Liljestr¨om J. Harju, M. Korpi 2006 M.Sc. Tuomas Lunttila M. Juvela 2006 M.Sc. Hannu Parviainen K. Muinonen
2006 M.Sc. Auni Somero P. Hakala
2007 M.Sc. Karri Koljonen D. Hannikainen 2007 M.Sc. Johanna Mynttinen D. Hannikainen 2007 M.Sc. Sebastian Porceddu L. Jetsu, T. Markkanen 2007 M.Sc. Petri Savolainen D. Hannikainen 2007 M.Sc. Minttu Uunila J. Huovelin, R. Vainio 2008 Ph.D. Mikael Granvik K. Muinonen 2008 Ph.D. Linnea Hjalmarsdotter D. Hannikainen
2008 Ph.D. Johanna Torppa M. Kaasalainen, K. Muinonen 2008 Ph.Lic. Lauri Alha J. Huovelin
2008 M.Sc. Hannakaisa Erkkil¨a K. Muinonen 2008 M.Sc. Mikko Eronen L. Haikala 2008 M.Sc. Perttu Kajatkari D. Hannikainen 2008 M.Sc. Mari Kolehmainen D. Hannikainen
2008 M.Sc. Marjaana Lindborg M. Korpi, P. K¨apyl¨a, I. Tuominen 2008 M.Sc Joonas Lyytinen L. Jetsu
2008 M.Sc. Minja M¨akel¨a M. Juvela, K. Lehtinen, K. Mattila 2008 M.Sc. Arttu Raja-Halli J. Nevalainen
2008 M.Sc. Minerva Schultz J. Harju, M. Juvela 2008 M.Sc. Tuure Takala J. Huovelin, E. Kyr¨ol¨a 2008 M.Sc. Maija Yl¨osm¨aki J. Harju, M. Juvela