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Julie Castillo

Julie Castillo is a planetary scientist, specialiaing in Solar system ices and icy objects. She is involved in both laboratory work and numerical modeling of relevance to Jupiter's and Saturn's satellites in order to support the interpretation of observations from the Galileo and Cassini missions and the preparation of future missions to the outer Solar system.


Education
  • B.S. Geology, University of Nantes, France (1997)
  • M.S., Geophysics, University of Rennes, France (1998)
  • Ph.D., Planetary Geophysics, University of Rennes, France (2001)

Research Interests
  • The geophysics of small bodies (asteroids, irregular satellites)
  • Experimental Measurements of Ice Mechanical Properties
  • The Signatures of Tides throughout the Solar System

Projects

Cassini-Huygens Icon Cassini-Huygens
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is currently exploring the ringed planet, its mysterious moons, the stunning rings and its complex magnetic environment.


Professional Experience
  • Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. Tech., (2007-Present)
  • Lead, Planetary Tides Simulation Facility and Ice Factory (Ice Physics Lab)
  • Titan and Saturn System Mission Science Definition Team (2008)
  • Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2005-2007)
  • Cassini Mission Radio Science Team Affiliate (2002-2004)
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Nantes, France (1998-2001)

Selected Publications
  1. Matson, D. L., Johnson, T. V., Lunine, J. I., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Enceladus' heat pump, submitted to Icarus.
  2. Rambaux, N., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Dehant, V., Dynamical Rotation of Ceres, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  3. Castillo-Rogez, J., Johnson, T., Thomas, P., Choukroun, M., Matson, D., Lunine, J., Evolution of Phoebe, a large planetesimal in the outer Solar system, submitted to Icarus.
  4. Sharp, P. W., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Grazier, K. R., The performance of phase-lag enhanced ERKN pairs on N -body simulations, submitted to Journal of Applied Mathematics.
  5. Choukroun, M. C., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Young, J. B., Mielke, R. E., Synthesis of Planetary Clathrate Hydrates Analogs: New Apparatus, Microstructure Analysis, and Implications, submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments, in revision.
  6. Jones et al. GISMO Spacecraft design for a New Frontiers mission to Ganymede, IEEE Proceedings, in revision.
  7. Schmidt B., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Constraints on the internal structure and thermal evolution of Pallas, submitted to Icarus, in revision.
  8. Castillo-Rogez, J., Efroimsky, M., Lainey, V., The tidal history of Iapetus. Dissipative spin dynamics in the light of a refined geophysical model, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., in revision.
  9. McCarthy, C. M., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Planetary ices attenuation properties, Science of Solar System Ices, Eds. M. S. Gutipati, J. Castillo-Rogez, (peer-reviewed), in press.
  10. McCord, T. B., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Meeting Report - Thermodynamic evolution of small ice-silicate bodies, EoS (peer-reviewed), in press.
  11. McCord, T. B., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Rivkin, A. S., Ceres: Its Origin, Evolution and Structure and Dawn's Potential Contribution, Space Science Reviews, special issue on the Dawn Mission, in press.
  12. Robutel, P., Rambaux, N., Castillo-Rogez, J., Analytical description of physical librations of Saturnian coorbital satellites Janus and Epimetheus, Icarus 258, 758-769, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.09.014.
  13. Castillo-Rogez, J., Lunine, J. I. (2010) Evolution of Titan's rocky core constrained by Cassini observations, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters 37, L20205, doi: doi:10.1029/2010GL044398.
  14. Castillo-Rogez, J. C., McCord, T. B. (2010) Ceres' evolution and present state constrained by shape data, Icarus 205, 443-459, doi:10.1016/j.Icarus.2009.04.008.
  15. Davies, A. G., Sotin, C., Matson, D. L., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Johnson, T. V., Choukroun, M., Baines, K. H., Atmospheric Control of the Cooling Rate of Impact Melts and Cryolavas on Titan's Surface, Icarus 208, 887-895, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.025.
  16. Davies, A. G., Sotin, C., Matson, D. L., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Johnson, T. V., Choukroun, M., Baines, K. H., Atmospheric Control of the Cooling Rate of Impact Melts and Cryolavas on Titan's Surface, Icarus, in press.
  17. Castillo-Rogez J. C., Durham, W. B., and 8 co-authors (2009) Laboratory studies in support of planetary geophysics, White paper to the Decadal Survey Solar System 2012.
  18. Rivkin, A. S., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., and 26 co-authors (2009) The case for Ceres: Report to the Planetary Science Decadal Survey Committee.
  19. Rambaux, N., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Williams, J. G., Karatekin, O. (2009) The librational response of Enceladus, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L04202, doi:10.1029/2009GL041465.
  20. Matson D. L., Castillo-Rogez J. C., McKinnon W. B., Sotin C., Schubert G., The thermal evolution and internal structure of Saturn's midsize icy satellites, In: Saturn after Cassini-Huygens, Eds: R. Brown, M. Dougherty, L. Esposito, T. Krimigis, H. Waite, Chapter 19.
  21. Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Johnson, T. V., Lee, M. H., Turner, N., Lunine, J. I., Matson, D. L. (2009) 26Al decay: Heat production and a revised age for Iapetus, Icarus 204, 658-662, doi:10.1016/j.Icarus.2009.07.025.
  22. Coustenis, A., Atreya, S., Casavecchia, P., Castillo, J., Dutuit, O., Hussmann, H., Sohl, F., 2008, Surfaces and atmospheres of the outer planets, their satellites and ring systems: Part IV, Planetary and Space Science 56, 1571-1572, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2008.08.015.
  23. Castillo-Rogez J., D. L. Matson, C. Sotin, T. V. Johnson, J. I. Lunine, P. C. Thomas, Iapetus' Geophysics: Rotation Rate, Shape, and Equatorial Ridge, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.Icarus.2007.02.018.
  24. Castillo-Rogez J., 2006: The internal structure of Rhea, J. Geophys. Res., 111, E11005, doi:10.1029/2004JE002379.
  25. Matson, D. L., Castillo-Rogez, J. C., Lunine, J. and T. V. Johnson 2006: Enceladus' Plume: Compositional Evidence For a Hot Interior, Icarus 187, 569-573 doi:10.1016/j.Icarus.2006.10.016., 2007.
  26. Matson, D. L., Davies, A. G., Veeder, G. J., Rathbun, J. A.., Johnson, T. V., Castillo, J. C., Io: Loki Patera as a magma sea, Journal of Geophysical Research 111, CiteID E09002, doi:10.1029/2006JE002703.
  27. Castillo, J., Mocquet, A., Saracco, G. (2001) Wavelet transform : A tool for the interpretation of upper mantle converted phases at high frequency, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28 4327-4330, doi: 10.1029/2001GL013214.
  28. Castillo, J., A. Mocquet, and C. Sotin, Detecting a deep ocean within Europa by means of geodetic measurements, C. R. Acad. Sci. 330, 659-666 (2000). (Peer-reviewed).

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