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Selected Papers
- Lacerda, P. 2009.
Time-Resolved Near-Infrared
Photometry of Extreme Kuiper Belt Object Haumea.
The Astronomical
Journal, 137, 3404 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P., Jewitt, D., & Peixinho, N. 2008.
High
Precision Photometry of Extreme KBO 2003 EL61.
The Astronomical
Journal, 135, 1749 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P. 2008.
Detection of Contact Binaries Using
Sparse High Phase Angle Light Curves.
The Astrophysical Journal
Letters, 672, L57 (PDF)
- Sheppard, S. S., Lacerda, P., & Ortiz, J.-L. 2007.
Photometric Light Curves of Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs:
Rotations and Shapes.
In: The Solar System Beyond Neptune
(M. A. Barucci et al. Eds.) U. Arizona Press 2008 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P. & Jewitt, D. 2007.
Densities of solar
system objects from their rotational lightcurves.
The Astronomical
Journal, 133, 1393 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P., Dominik, C., Luu, J., & Kenyon, S. 2006.
The origin of the spins of Kuiper Belt objects.
Past Meets
Present in Astronomy and Astrophysics, p. 9 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P. & Luu, J. 2006.
Analysis of the
rotational properties of Kuiper belt objects.
The Astronomical
Journal, 131, 2314 (PDF)
- Luu, J. & Lacerda, P. 2003.
The shape distribution
of Kuiper Belt objects.
Earth Moon and Planets, 92, 221 (PDF)
- Lacerda, P. & Luu, J. 2003.
On the detectability of
lightcurves of Kuiper belt objects.
Icarus, 161, 174. (PDF)
Other Publications
- Lacerda, P. 2005.
The Shapes and Spins of Kuiper Belt
Objects
Ph. D. Thesis, Leiden University, advisors: Dr. Jane Luu and
Prof. Harm Habing. (PDF, cover PDF)