Issue 20-13, March 23, 2020
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- FIRST ARTICLES IN THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
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FIRST ARTICLES IN THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
The first articles to be published in The Planetary Science Journal (PSJ) are now online!
Launched late last year by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Division
for Planetary Sciences (DPS), PSJ is an open-access journal devoted to recent developments,
discoveries, and theories relevant to the investigation of both our solar system and other
planetary systems. PSJ publishes manuscripts reporting significant new observational
results, theoretical insights, computational modeling, laboratory experiments, innovations
in instrumentation, and field work in the planetary sciences.
PSJ’s Editor is Faith Vilas (Planetary Science Institute). She is supported by three
Science Editors:
Brian Jackson (Boise State University),
Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association), and
Maria Womack (University of Central Florida).
The first article to appear online is an editorial by Vilas, DPS Publications Subcommittee
chair Ross Beyer, and AAS Editor in Chief Ethan Vishniac describing the motivation for
launching the new journal and the services PSJ will provide to the scientific community.
Next are six articles covering a wide range of objects from Mercury to Jupiter and an equally
wide range of phenomena from formation of the lunar regolith to the interplanetary transfer
of material from asteroids to Earth.
The first issue begins with 6 articles from analyzing Mercury’s iron core, modeling the lunar
surface, and investigating the effects of a spacecraft impacting an asteroid, as well as several
other developments, discoveries, and theories in planetary science.
The above URL will always take you to the main landing page for the journal, and show you
the most recent articles. The ‘table of contents’ for the first issue as it continues to accumulate,
is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/2632-3338/1/1
Editorial: Introducing The Planetary Science Journal
Faith Vilas, Ross A. Beyer, and Ethan Vishniac
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab7e92
Modeling the Formation of the Lunar Upper Megaregolith Layer
James E. Richardson and Oleg Abramov
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab7235
On the Delivery of DART-ejected Material from Asteroid (65803) Didymos to Earth
Paul Wiegert
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab75bf
The Rapid Imaging Planetary Spectrograph: Observations of Mercury’s Sodium Exosphere in Twilight
Carl A. Schmidt, Jeffrey Baumgardner, Luke Moore, Thomas A. Bida, Ryan Swindle, and Patrick Lierle
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab76c9
Asteroid Diameters and Albedos from NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Years 4 and 5
Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer, R. M. Cutri, T. Grav, E. Kramer,
J. Pittichová, S. Sonnett, and E. L. Wright
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab7820
Jupiter-style Jet Stability
Timothy E. Dowling
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab789d
The Solar Wind Prevents Reaccretion of Debris after Mercury’s Giant Impact
Christopher Spalding and Fred C. Adams
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab781f
PSJ joins The Astronomical Journal (AJ), The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), The ApJ Letters
(ApJL), and The ApJ Supplement Series (ApJS) as the newest of the AAS’s peer-reviewed
research journals. All are produced in partnership with IOP Publishing in the United Kingdom
and, in PSJ’s case, with the DPS. PSJ is a “gold open access” journal, meaning all its articles
are free for all to read as soon as they’re published. Like the other AAS journals, PSJ features
a quick turnaround from receipt through review to online publication. Initially articles are
being collected into quarterly issues; as the number of submissions increases, issues may
be numbered bimonthly or more frequently.
“I’m really excited to witness the birth of The Planetary Science Journal,” says AAS President
Megan Donahue (Michigan State University). “I have no doubt that it will publish a lot of
groundbreaking research. Even as AAS President I didn’t get a special preview, so I’m eager
to go online and read the first articles.”
To celebrate the launch, PSJ is offering a special discount of half off our regular gold-open-access
rates for the first 100 articles published in the journal. Submit your manuscript early to enjoy all the
benefits of open access without paying the full article publication charge!
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Send submissions to:
Anne Verbiscer, DPS Secretary ([email protected])
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