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William Marchant
Researcher at Space Sciences Laboratory
Publications - 30
Citations - 952
William Marchant is an academic researcher from Space Sciences Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic dust & Interplanetary dust cloud. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 30 publications receiving 766 citations. Previous affiliations of William Marchant include University of California, Berkeley & Field Museum of Natural History.
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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination XI: Identification and elemental analysis of impact craters on Al foils from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
Rhonda M. Stroud,Carlton Allen,Asna Ansari,David Anderson,Saša Bajt,Nabil Bassim,R. Bastien,Hans A. Bechtel,Janet Borg,Frank E. Brenker,John Bridges,Donald E. Brownlee,Mark J. Burchell,Manfred Burghammer,Anna L. Butterworth,Hitesh Changela,Hitesh Changela,Peter Cloetens,Andrew M. Davis,Ryan Doll,Christine Floss,George J. Flynn,D. Frank,Zack Gainsforth,Eberhard Grün,Philipp R. Heck,Jon K. Hillier,Peter Hoppe,Joachim Huth,Brit Hvide,Anton T. Kearsley,Ashley J. King,Paul G. Kotula,Barry Lai,Jan Leitner,Laurence Lemelle,Hugues Leroux,Ariel Leonard,R. Lettieri,William Marchant,Larry R. Nittler,Ryan C. Ogliore,Wei Jia Ong,Frank Postberg,Mark C. Price,Scott A. Sandford,Juan-Angel Sans Tresseras,Sylvia Schmitz,Tom Schoonjans,Kate Schreiber,Geert Silversmit,Alexandre Simionovici,Vicente A. Solé,Ralf Srama,Ralf Srama,Thomas Stephan,Veerle Sterken,Julien Stodolna,Steven Sutton,Mario Trieloff,Peter Tsou,Akira Tsuchiyama,Tolek Tyliszczak,Bart Vekemans,Laszlo Vincze,Andrew J. Westphal,Joshua Von Korff,Daniel Zevin,Michael E. Zolensky +68 more
TL;DR: The Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination team analyzed thirteen Al foils from the NASA Stardust interstellar collector tray in order to locate candidate interstellar dust (ISD) grain impacts.
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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IV: Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy analyses of impact features in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
Anna L. Butterworth,Andrew J. Westphal,Tolek Tyliszczak,Zack Gainsforth,Julien Stodolna,D. Frank,Carlton Allen,David Anderson,Asna Ansari,Saša Bajt,Ron K. Bastien,Nabil Bassim,Hans A. Bechtel,Janet Borg,Frank E. Brenker,John Bridges,Donald E. Brownlee,Mark J. Burchell,Manfred Burghammer,Hitesh Changela,Peter Cloetens,Andrew M. Davis,Ryan Doll,Christine Floss,George J. Flynn,Eberhard Grün,Philipp R. Heck,Jon K. Hillier,Peter Hoppe,Bruce Hudson,Joachim Huth,Brit Hvide,Anton T. Kearsley,Ashley J. King,Barry Lai,Jan Leitner,Laurence Lemelle,Hugues Leroux,Ariel Leonard,R. Lettieri,William Marchant,Larry R. Nittler,Ryan C. Ogliore,Wei Ja Ong,Frank Postberg,Mark C. Price,Scott A. Sandford,Juan-Angel Sans Tresseras,Sylvia Schmitz,Tom Schoonjans,Geert Silversmit,Alexandre Simionovici,Vicente A. Solé,Ralf Srama,Frank J. Stadermann,Thomas Stephan,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Rhonda M. Stroud,Steven Sutton,Mario Trieloff,Peter Tsou,Akira Tsuchiyama,Bart Vekemans,Laszlo Vincze,Joshua Von Korff,Naomi Wordsworth,Daniel Zevin,Michael E. Zolensky +69 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the quantitative characterization by synchrotron soft X-ray spectroscopy of 31 potential impact features in the aerogel capture medium of the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector.
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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IX: High-speed interstellar dust analog capture in Stardust flight-spare aerogel
Frank Postberg,Frank Postberg,Jon K. Hillier,S. P. Armes,S. Bugiel,S. Bugiel,Anna L. Butterworth,Damien Dupin,Lee A. Fielding,Syuji Fujii,Zack Gainsforth,E. Gruen,E. Gruen,Y. W. Li,Y. W. Li,Y. W. Li,Ralf Srama,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Julien Stodolna,Mario Trieloff,Andrew J. Westphal,C. Achilles,Carlton Allen,Asna Ansari,Saša Bajt,Nabil Bassim,Ron K. Bastien,Hans A. Bechtel,Janet Borg,Frank E. Brenker,John Bridges,Donald E. Brownlee,Mark J. Burchell,Manfred Burghammer,Hitesh Changela,Hitesh Changela,Peter Cloetens,Andrew M. Davis,Ryan Doll,Christine Floss,George J. Flynn,D. Frank,Philipp R. Heck,Peter Hoppe,Gary R. Huss,Joachim Huth,Anton T. Kearsley,Ashley J. King,Barry Lai,Jan Leitner,Laurence Lemelle,Ariel Leonard,Hugues Leroux,R. Lettieri,William Marchant,Larry R. Nittler,Ryan C. Ogliore,Wei Ja Ong,Mark C. Price,Scott A. Sandford,J.-A. Sans Tressaras,Sylvia Schmitz,Tom Schoonjans,Kate Schreiber,Geert Silversmit,Alexandre Simionovici,Vicente A. Solé,Frank J. Stadermann,Thomas Stephan,Rhonda M. Stroud,Steven Sutton,Peter Tsou,Akira Tsuchiyama,T. Tyliczszak,Bart Vekemans,Laszlo Vincze,Daniel Zevin,Michael E. Zolensky +79 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of laboratory hypervelocity impact experiments, during which cosmic dust analog particles (diameters of between 0.2 and 0.4 mu m), composed of olivine, orthopyroxene, or an organic polymer, were accelerated onto Stardust flight-spare low-density (approximately 0.01 g cm(-3)) silica aerogel.
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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination III: Infrared spectroscopic analysis of interstellar dust candidates
Hans A. Bechtel,George J. Flynn,Carlton Allen,David Anderson,Asna Ansari,Saša Bajt,Ron K. Bastien,Nabil Bassim,Janet Borg,Frank E. Brenker,John Bridges,Donald E. Brownlee,Mark J. Burchell,Manfred Burghammer,Anna L. Butterworth,Hitesh Changela,Peter Cloetens,Andrew M. Davis,Ryan Doll,Christine Floss,D. Frank,Zack Gainsforth,Eberhard Grün,Philipp R. Heck,Jon K. Hillier,Peter Hoppe,Bruce Hudson,Joachim Huth,Brit Hvide,Anton T. Kearsley,Ashley J. King,Ashley J. King,Barry Lai,Jan Leitner,Laurence Lemelle,Hugues Leroux,Ariel Leonard,R. Lettieri,William Marchant,Larry R. Nittler,Ryan C. Ogliore,Wei Ja Ong,Frank Postberg,Frank Postberg,Mark C. Price,Scott A. Sandford,Juan-Angel Sans Tresseras,Sylvia Schmitz,Tom Schoonjans,Geert Silversmit,Alexandre Simionovici,Vicente A. Solé,Ralf Srama,Frank J. Stadermann,Thomas Stephan,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Julien Stodolna,Rhonda M. Stroud,Steven Sutton,Mario Trieloff,Peter Tsou,Akira Tsuchiyama,Tolek Tyliszczak,Bart Vekemans,Laszlo Vincze,Joshua Von Korff,Andrew J. Westphal,Naomi Wordsworth,Daniel Zevin,Michael E. Zolensky +71 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used synchrotron Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscopy to detect organic matter in small particles within picokeystones from the Stardust interstellar dust collector.
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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination II: Curating the interstellar dust collector, picokeystones, and sources of impact tracks
D. Frank,Andrew J. Westphal,Michael E. Zolensky,Zack Gainsforth,Anna L. Butterworth,Ron K. Bastien,Carlton Allen,David Anderson,Asna Ansari,Saša Bajt,Nabil Bassim,Hans A. Bechtel,Janet Borg,Frank E. Brenker,John Bridges,Donald E. Brownlee,Mark J. Burchell,Manfred Burghammer,Hitesh Changela,Peter Cloetens,Andrew M. Davis,Andrew M. Davis,Ryan Doll,Christine Floss,George J. Flynn,Eberhard Grün,Philipp R. Heck,Jon K. Hillier,Peter Hoppe,Bruce Hudson,Joachim Huth,Brit Hvide,Anton T. Kearsley,Ashley J. King,Barry Lai,Jan Leitner,Laurence Lemelle,Hugues Leroux,Ariel Leonard,R. Lettieri,William Marchant,Larry R. Nittler,Ryan C. Ogliore,Wei Ja Ong,Frank Postberg,Mark C. Price,Scott A. Sandford,Juan-Angel Sans Tresseras,Sylvia Schmitz,Tom Schoonjans,Geert Silversmit,Alexandre Simionovici,Vicente A. Solé,Ralf Srama,Thomas Stephan,Veerle Sterken,Veerle Sterken,Julien Stodolna,Rhonda M. Stroud,Steven Sutton,Mario Trieloff,Peter Tsou,Akira Tsuchiyama,Tolek Tyliszczak,Bart Vekemans,Laszlo Vincze,Joshua Von Korff,Naomi Wordsworth,Daniel Zevin +68 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the inherent difficulties that arise during "ground truth" characterization of the Stardust interstellar dust collector, and provide a detailed description of the sample preparation techniques developed to address the unique goals and restrictions of the Interstellar Preliminary Exam.