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ROGERIO DEIENNO

Lead Scientist

Southwest Research Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Name:Rogerio Deienno
Address:



 Southwest Research Institute
1050 Walnut St. Suite 300
Boulder, CO 80302
USA
Phone:+1 (720) 240-0130
Email:rdeienno@boulder.swri.edu
Home page:http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~rdeienno
Citizenship:Brazilian
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. in Space Engineering and Technology, National Institute for Space Research -- INPE, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil10/10-03/14
Intership "Split-site Ph.D.", Southwest Research Institute -- SwRI, Boulder/CO, USA05/13-10/13
M.Sc. in Physics, São Paulo State University -- UNESP, Rio Claro/SP, Brazil08/08-08/10

Appointments

Lead Scientist, Southwest Research Institute -- SwRI, Boulder/CO, USA03/24-present
Senior Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute -- SwRI, Boulder/CO, USA11/21-02/24
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute -- SwRI, Boulder/CO, USA11/17-10/21
FAPESP Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Space Research – INPE, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil12/16-10/17
FAPESP Postdoctoral Researcher, Nice Observatory – OCA, Nice, France01/16-11/16
FAPESP Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Space Research – INPE, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil08/14-12/15
CNPq Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Space Research – INPE, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil05/14-07/14

Skills

  • Experience in the fields of Astronomy and Aerospace Engineering, with emphasis on Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.
  • Work experience with planet formation, planet migration, planetary instability, evolution of the main asteroid belt, capture of irregular satellites, stability of regular satellites, Kuiper belt objects, asteroid families, near-earth objects, survey debiasing, de-orbiting and gravitational capture of spacecrafts, among many other things :-) publications below
  • Knowledge of the N-body codes commonly used to Solar System dynamical studies: Mercury, Swift, SyMBA, Swiftest, Rebound, and LIPAD, as well as RA15 and Boulder code.
  • Domain of computer languages such as fortran, bash script, and python, as well as in graphical tools such as gnuplot/python. Creation of high resolution figures and animations for Solar System’s evolution to improve both presentation and interpretation.
  • Speaks fluently English and Portuguese, as well as moderate Spanish and basic French.

Publications

  • Leading Author on Scientific Articles:
    1. Deienno, R., Denneau, L., Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., and 5 collaborators 2024. The Debiased Near-Earth Object Population from ATLAS Telescopes. Icarus 425. [arXiv][Icarus]
    2. Deienno, R., Nesvorny, D., Clement, M. S., Bottke, W. F., Izidoro, A., Walsh, K. J. 2024. Accretion and Uneven Depletion of the Main Asteroid Belt. The Planetary Science Journal 5 110. [arXiv][PSJ]
    3. Deienno, R., Izidoro, A., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorny, D., Bottke, W. F. 2022. Implications of Jupiter Inward Gas-Driven Migration for the Inner Solar System. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 936, L24. [arXiv][ApJL]
    4. Deienno, R., Walsh, K. J., Delbo, M. 2021. Efficiency characterization of the V-shape asteroid family detection method. Icarus 357. [arXiv] [Icarus]
    5. Deienno, R., Walsh, K. J., Levison, H. F., Kretke, K. A. 2020. Collisional Evolution of Meter- to Kilometer-sized Planetesimals in Mean Motion Resonances: Implications for Inward Planet Shepherding. The Astrophysical Journal 890, 170. [ApJ]
    6. Deienno, R., Walsh, K. J., Kretke, K. A., Levison, H. F. 2019. Energy Dissipation in Large Collisions -- No Change in Planet Formation Outcomes. The Astrophysical Journal 876, 103. [ApJ]
    7. Deienno, R., Izidoro, A., Morbidelli, A., Gomes, R. S., Nesvorny, D., Raymond, S. N. 2018. Excitation of a Primordial Cold Asteroid Belt as an Outcome of Planetary Instability. The Astrophysical Journal 864, 50. [arXiv] [ApJ]
    8. Deienno, R., Morbidelli, A., Gomes, R. S., Nesvorny, D. 2017. Constraining the Giant Planets' Initial Configuration from Their Evolution: Implications for the Timing of the Planetary Instability. The Astronomical Journal 153, 153. [arXiv] [AJ]
    9. Deienno, R., Sanchez, D. M., de Almeida Prado, A. F. B., Smirnov, G. 2016. Satellite de-orbiting via controlled solar radiation pressure. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 126, 433-459. [CeMDA]
    10. Deienno, R., Gomes, R. S., Walsh, K. J., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorny, D. 2016. Is the Grand Tack model compatible with the orbital distribution of main belt asteroids? Icarus 272, 114-124. [arXiv] [Icarus]
    11. Deienno, R., Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Yokoyama, T., 2014. Orbital Perturbations of the Galilean Satellites during Planetary Encounters. The Astronomical Journal 148, 25. [arXiv] [AJ]
    12. Deienno, R., Yokoyama, T., Nogueira, E. C., Callegari, N., Santos, M. T. 2011. Effects of the planetary migration on some primordial satellites of the outer planets. I. Uranus' case. Astronomy & Astrophysics 536, A57. [A&A]
  • Collaborator on Scientific Articles:
    1. Vokrouhlicky, D., Nesvorny, D., Broz, M., Bottke, W. F., Deienno, R., Fuls, C. D., Shelly, F. C. 2025. Orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Hilda population. The Astronomical Journal 169. [arXiv][AJ]
    2. Cashion, M. D., Johnson, b. C., Deienno, R., Kretke, K. A., Walsh, K. J., Krot, A. N. 2025. Chondrule formation indicates protracted growth of giant planet cores. Icarus 429. [Icarus]
    3. Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Shelly, F., Deienno, R., Bottke, W. F., and 7 collaborators 2024. NEOMOD 3: The Debiased Size Distribution of Near Earth Objects. Icarus 417. [arXiv][Icarus]
    4. Izidoro, A., Deienno, R., Raymond, S. N., Clement, M. S. 2024. Implantation of asteroids from the terrestrial planet region: The effect of the timing of the giant planet instability. Icarus - Under Review. [arXiv]
    5. Izidoro, A., Deienno, R., Raymond, S. N., Clement, M. S. 2024. The link between Athor and EL meteorites does not constrain the timing of the giant planet instability. The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Under Review. [arXiv]
    6. Bottke, W. F., Vokrouhlicky, D., Nesvorny, D., Marschall, R., Morbidelli, A., Deienno, R., Marchi, S., Kirchoff, M., Dones, L., Levison, H. 2024. The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites. The Planetary Science Journal 5 88. [PSJ]
    7. Vokrouhlicky, D., Nesvorny, D., Broz, M., Bottke, W. F., Deienno, R., Fuls, C. D., Shelly, F. C. 2024. Orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Jupiter Trojans. The Astronomical Journal 167. [arXiv][AJ]
    8. Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Shelly, F., Deienno, R., Bottke, W. F., and 7 collaborators 2024. NEOMOD 2: An Updated Model of Near-Earth Objects from a Decade of Catalina Sky Survey Observations. Icarus 411. [arXiv][Icarus]
    9. Ribeiro de Sousa, R., Izidoro, A., Deienno, R., Dasgupta, R. 2024. Asteroids were born bigger: An implication of surface mass ablation during gas-assisted implantation into the asteroid belt. Icarus 410. [arXiv][Icarus]
    10. Nesvorny, D., Dauphas, N., Vokrouhlicky, D., Deienno, R., Hopp, T. 2024. Isotopic Trichotomy of Main Belt Asteroids from Implantation of Outer Solar System Planetesimals. Earth and Planetary Science Letter 626. [arXiv][EPSL]
    11. Joiret, S., Raymond, S. N., Avice, G., Clement, M.S., Deienno, R., Nesvorny, D. 2023. A race against the clock: Constraining the timing of cometary bombardment relative to Earth's growth. Icarus 406. [Icarus]
    12. Nesvorny, D., Deienno, R., Bottke, W. F., and 11 collaborators 2023. NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near-Earth Objects. The Astronomical Journal 166. [arXiv][AJ]
    13. Ferrone, S., Delbo, M., Avdellidou, C., Melikyan, R., Morbidelli, A., Walsh, K., Deienno, R. 2023. Identification of a 4.3 billion year old asteroid family and planetesimal population in the Inner Main Belt. Astronomy & Astrophysics 676. [arXiv][A&A]
    14. Bottke, W. F., Vokrouhlicky, D., Marschall, R., Nesvorny, D., Morbidelli, A., Deienno, R., Marchi, S., Dones, L., Levison, H. 2023. The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids. The Planetary Science Journal 4. [arXiv][PSJ]
    15. Nesvorny, D., Roig, F. V., Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., Marchi, S., Morbidelli, A., Deienno, R. 2023. Early bombardment of the moon: Connecting the lunar crater record to the terrestrial planet formation. Icarus 399. [arXiv][Icarus]
    16. Clement, M. S., Deienno, R., Izidoro, A. 2023. Rethinking the role of the giant planet instability in terrestrial planet formation models. Icarus 389. [arXiv][Icarus]
    17. Nesvorny, D., Roig, F. V., Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., Marchi, S., Morbidelli, A., Deienno, R. 2022. Formation of Lunar Basins from Impacts of Leftover Planetesimals. The Astrophysical Journal 941. [arXiv][ApJL]
    18. Marschall, R., Nesvorny, D., Deienno, R., Wong, I., Levison, H. F., Bottke, W. F. 2022. Implications for the collisional strength of Jupiter Trojans from the Eurybates family. The Astronomical Journal 164. [arXiv][AJ]
    19. Izidoro, A., Dasgupta, R., Raymond, S. N., Deienno, R., Bitsch, B., Isella, A. 2022. Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System's planetary architecture. Nature Astronomy 6, 357–366. [arXiv] [Nature Astronomy]
    20. Esteves, L., Izidoro, A., Bitsch, B., Jacobson, S. A., Raymond, S. N., Deienno, R., Winter, O. C. 2022. The "Breaking The Chains" migration model for super-Earths formation: the effect of collisional fragmentation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 509, 2856–2868. [arXiv] [MNRAS]
    21. Roig, F., Nesvorny, D., Deienno, R., Garcia, M. J. 2021. iSyMBA: A symplectic massive bodies integrator with planets interpolation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508, Issue 4, 4858–4868. [arXiv] [MNRAS]
    22. Nesvorny, D., Roig, F., Deienno, R. 2021. The Role of Early Giant Planet Instability in the Terrestrial Planet Formation. The Astronomical Journal 161, 50. [arXiv] [AJ]
    23. Clement, M. S., Deienno, R., Kaib, N. A., Izidoro, A., Raymond, S. N., Chambers, J. E. 2021. Born extra-eccentric: A broad spectrum of primordial configurations of the gas giants that match their present-day orbits. Icarus 367 [arXiv] [Icarus]
    24. Clement, M. S., Raymond, S. N., Kaib, N. A., Deienno, R., Chambers, J. E., Izidoro, A. 2021. Born eccentric: Constraints on Jupiter and Saturn's pre-instability orbits. Icarus 355. [arXiv] [Icarus]
    25. Voelkel, O., Deienno, R., Kretke, K., Klahr, H. 2021. Linking planetary embryo formation to planetesimal formation I: The impact of the planetesimal surface density in the terrestrial planet zone. Astronomy & Astrophysics 645, A131. [arXiv] [A&A]
    26. Voelkel, O., Deienno, R., Kretke, K., Klahr, H. 2021. Linking planetary embryo formation to planetesimal formation II: The impact of pebble accretion in the terrestrial planet zone. Astronomy & Astrophysics 645, A132. [arXiv] [A&A]
    27. Sanchez, D. M., Deienno, R., Prado, A. F. B. A., Howell, K. C. 2020. Perturbation Maps and the ring of Haumea. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496, 2085. [MNRAS]
    28. Gomes, R. S., Nesvorny, D., Morbidelli, A., Deienno, R., Nogueira, E. C. 2018. Checking the compatibility of the cold Kuiper belt with a planetary instability migration model. Icarus 306, 319-327.[arXiv] [Icarus]
    29. Gomes, R., Deienno, R., Morbidelli, A. 2017. The Inclination of the Planetary System Relative to the Solar Equator May Be Explained by the Presence of Planet 9. The Astronomical Journal 153, 27. [arXiv] [AJ]
    30. Brasil, P. I. O., Prado, A. F. B. A., Deienno, R., Yokoyama, T. 2015. Study of the gravitational capture of a spacecraft by Jupiter. Advances in Space Research 55, 668-681. [AdSpR]
    31. Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Deienno, R., Walsh, K. J. 2014. Excitation of the Orbital Inclination of Iapetus during Planetary Encounters. The Astronomical Journal 148, 52. [arXiv] [AJ]
    32. Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Deienno, R. 2014. Capture of Irregular Satellites at Jupiter. The Astrophysical Journal 784, 22. [arXiv] [ApJ]
  • Book Chapter:
    1. Clement, M. S., Izidoro, A., Raymond, S. N., Deienno, R. 2024. Formation of Terrestrial Planets. To be published in: Handbook of Exoplanets, 2nd Edition, Hans Deeg and Juan Antonio Belmonte (Eds. in Chief), Springer International Publishing AG [arXiv]

    Awards

    • Awarded by the Wagner Sessin Prize for scientific & technologic contributions to Astronomy, CBDO XIX, São José dos Campos/SP - Brazil, 2018
    • Asteroid (40241) Deienno

    Grants

    • NASA Emerging Worlds (PI) Grant # 80NSSC21K0387 -- Planet and Planetesimal Formation in the Inner Solar System. Period of Performance: 01/01/2021 to 12/31/2024.
    • FAPESP Research Internship Abroad Scholarship, Nice/Frarce -- Late instability in the solar system. Period of Performance: 01/01/2016 to 11/30/2016
    • FAPESP Postdoctoral Grant, Sao Paulo/Brazil -- Orbital evolution of the asteroids in the first 700 My of the Solar System. Period of Performance: 08/01/2014 to 10/31/2017.
    • FAPESP PhD Internship Abroad Scholarship, Boulder/CO USA -- Capture of irregular satellites during the planetary migration. Period of Performance: 05/01/2013 to 10/31/2013.
    • FAPESP PhD Grant, Sao Paulo/Brazil -- Satellites of Saturn: Stability, capture and analysis of the excitations on the eccentricity and inclination of the regular satellites during the planetary migration. Period of Performance: 10/01/2010 to 03/31/2014.
    • FAPES MsC Grant, Sao Paulo/Brazil -- Dynamics and stability of regular satellites as a consequense of planetary migration. Period of Performance: 09/01/2008 to 07/31/2010.

    Professional Services

    • Committee Member:
      • Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Term: July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025.
      • Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) on DDA/AAS. Term: 2023/2024 (Action Coordinator); 2024/2025 (Past Coordinator).
      • Colóquio Brasileiro de Dinâmica Orbital (CBDO). Term: 2022-2024.
    • Reviewer for scientific journals:
      • Nature Astronomy (3)
      • Science (1)
      • Icarus (6)
      • Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (3)
      • The Astronomical Journal (4)
      • Computational and Applied Mathematics (2)
      • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (3)
      • Astronomy & Astrophysics (3)
      • Meteoritics & Planetary Science (1)
      • Astrophysics and Space Science (1)
      • The Planetary Science Journal (1)
    • Reviewer for books/chapters:
      • Federal University of ABC (3)
      • Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (1)
      • Cambridge University Press (1)
    • Review Panels:
      • NASA (2)
    • External Review Panels:
      • NASA (2)
      • FONDECYT (1)

    Outreach

    • Ad Astra Academy [Ad Astra]:
      • Year 2024 Boulder/Longmont, Colorado/CO
    • Summer Science Program [SSP]:
      • Year 2019 and 2022 at New Mexico Tech, Socorro/NM
      • Year 2021 online for University of Colorado, Boulder/CO
      • Year 2023 at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces/NM
    • Press Release:
      • Where did Vesta Come From?. [NASA Research Highlight]
      • Mass Of Early Main Asteroid Belt Was Shockingly Small. [Forbes]
      • Puxa-puxa Cósmico. [Unesp Ciência; Pages 30-35]
      • La neuvième planète aurait fait basculer les orbites du Système solaire. [Futura Science]
      • SwRI Scientist Helps Simulate How Our Solar System Formed From Rings [SwRI]
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        Email: rdeienno@boulder.swri.edu
        Email: rogerio.deienno@swri.org

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