Charles Schambeau
Assistant Scientist
Florida Space Institute
Partnership 1 Bldg
407-823-6173
charles.schambeau@ucf.edu
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Charles Schambeau is a post-doctoral researcher who joined the Florida Space Institute as part of the Preeminent Postdoctoral Program at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Aug. 2018. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Physics at the University of South Alabama (2007), Master of Science in Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (2009), thesis entitled “Applications of Velocity Selective Optical Pumping of Atomic Vapors Using Pump-Probe Spectroscopy”, and Doctor of Philosophy in Physics at the University of Central Florida (2018), dissertation entitled “Analysis of Nucleus Properties of the Enigmatic Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1”.
His research focuses on the origins of our solar system through observational studies of comets and Centaurs. In particular, he specializes in investigating objects in the Centaur-to-Jupiter-Family transition; a region where cometary activity is driven primarily by a process other than water-ice sublimation.
| Authors | Title | Published Date | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilly, Eva; Schambeau, Charles A.; Thirouin, Audrey; and 3 coauthors | Observations and Characterization of the New Active Centaur 2023 RS61 | Mar 2025 | Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 9, 67 |
| Brunetto, R.; Hénault, E.; Cryan, S.; and 19 coauthors | Spectral Diversity of DiSCo’s TNOs Revealed by JWST: Early Sculpting and Late Irradiation | Mar 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal 982, L8 |
| De Prá, Mário N.; Hénault, Elsa; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemí; and 17 coauthors | Widespread CO2 and CO ices in the trans-Neptunian population revealed by JWST/DiSCo-TNOs | Feb 2025 | Nature Astronomy 9, 252 |
| Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemí; Holler, Bryan J.; and 18 coauthors | Thermal evolution of trans-Neptunian objects through observations of Centaurs with JWST | Feb 2025 | Nature Astronomy 9, 245 |
| Pinilla-Alonso, Noemí; Brunetto, Rosario; De Prá, Mário N.; and 17 coauthors | A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects | Feb 2025 | Nature Astronomy 9, 230 |
| Hénault, E.; Brunetto, R.; Pinilla-Alonso, N.; and 19 coauthors | Irradiation origin and stability of CO on trans-Neptunian objects: Laboratory constraints and observational evidence from JWST/DiSCo-TNOs | Feb 2025 | Astronomy and Astrophysics 694, A126 |
| Pinilla-Alonso, N.; Licandro, J.; Brunetto, R.; and 15 coauthors | Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope | Dec 2024 | Astronomy and Astrophysics 692, L11 |
| Faggi, Sara; Villanueva, Geronimo L.; McKay, Adam; and 11 coauthors | Heterogeneous outgassing regions identified on active centaur 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1 | Oct 2024 | Nature Astronomy 8, 1237 |
| Dobson, Matthew M.; Schwamb, Megan E.; Fitzsimmons, Alan; and 24 coauthors | The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron | Jul 2024 | The Planetary Science Journal 5, 165 |
| Lilly, Eva; Jevčák, Peter; Schambeau, Charles; and 7 coauthors | Semimajor-axis Jumps as the Activity Trigger in Centaurs and High-perihelion Jupiter-family Comets | Jan 2024 | The Astrophysical Journal 960, L8 |
| Souza-Feliciano, A. C.; Holler, B. J.; Pinilla-Alonso, N.; and 16 coauthors | Spectroscopy of the binary TNO Mors-Somnus with the JWST and its relationship to the cold classical and plutino subpopulations observed in the DiSCo-TNO project | Jan 2024 | Astronomy and Astrophysics 681, L17 |
| Mainzer, A. K.; Masiero, J. R.; Abell, Paul A.; and 34 coauthors | The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission | Dec 2023 | The Planetary Science Journal 4, 224 |
| Harrington Pinto, O.; Kelley, M. S. P.; Villanueva, G. L.; and 9 coauthors | First Detection of CO2 Emission in a Centaur: JWST NIRSpec Observations of 39P/Oterma | Nov 2023 | The Planetary Science Journal 4, 208 |
| Schambeau, Charles A.; Lilly, Eva; Micheli, Marco; and 3 coauthors | 2023 Recovery Observations and Characterization of the Active Centaur P/2010 TO20 (LINEAR-Grauer) | Jun 2023 | Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 7, 134 |
| Lisse, C. M.; Steckloff, J. K.; Prialnik, D.; and 12 coauthors | 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO ↔ CO2 Conversion in Centaurs and Comets? | Nov 2022 | The Planetary Science Journal 3, 251 |
| Lister, Tim; Kelley, Michael S. P.; Holt, Carrie E.; and 32 coauthors | The LCO Outbursting Objects Key Project: Overview and Year 1 Status | Jul 2022 | The Planetary Science Journal 3, 173 |
| Evangelista-Santana, M.; Carvano, J. M.; De Prá, M.; and 6 coauthors | Physical and dynamical characterization of hyperbolic comet C/2017 U7 (PANSTARRS) | May 2022 | Icarus 377, 114834 |
| Schambeau, Charles; McKay, Adam; Fernandez, Yanga; and 3 coauthors | Enabling a First in a Lifetime Multi-Wavelength Gas and Dust Coma Characterization of the Centaur 39P/Oterma | Mar 2022 | HST Proposal , 16921 |
| Lilly, Eva; Hsieh, Henry; Bauer, James; and 5 coauthors | No Activity among 13 Centaurs Discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 Detection Database | Aug 2021 | The Planetary Science Journal 2, 155 |
| Schambeau, Charles A.; Fernández, Yanga R.; Samarasinha, Nalin H.; and 4 coauthors | Characterization of Thermal-infrared Dust Emission and Refinements to the Nucleus Properties of Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 | Aug 2021 | The Planetary Science Journal 2, 126 |
| Kareta, Theodore; Woodney, Laura M.; Schambeau, Charles; and 10 coauthors | Contemporaneous Multiwavelength and Precovery Observations of the Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) | Apr 2021 | The Planetary Science Journal 2, 48 |
| Steckloff, J. K.; Sarid, G.; Volk, K.; and 5 coauthors | P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): An Active Centaur in Imminent Transition to the Jupiter Family | Dec 2020 | The Astrophysical Journal 904, L20 |
| Schambeau, Charles A.; Fernández, Yanga R.; Samarasinha, Nalin H.; and 2 coauthors | Analysis of HST WFPC2 Observations of Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 while in Outburst to Place Constraints on the Nucleus’ Rotation State | Dec 2019 | The Astronomical Journal 158, 259 |
| Schambeau, Charles Alfred | Analysis of nucleus properties of the enigmatic Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 | Jan 2018 | Ph.D. Thesis , |