@article{6bb3806f449d456d8105701ed8f155a3,
title = "SHERMAN, a shape-based thermophysical model. I. Model description and validation",
abstract = "SHERMAN, a new thermophysical modeling package designed for analyzing near-infrared spectra of asteroids and other solid bodies, is presented. The model's features, the methods it uses to solve for surface and subsurface temperatures, and the synthetic data it outputs are described. A set of validation tests demonstrates that SHERMAN produces accurate output in a variety of special cases for which correct results can be derived from theory. These cases include a family of solutions to the heat equation for which thermal inertia can have any value and thermophysical properties can vary with depth and with temperature. An appendix describes a new approximation method for estimating surface temperatures within spherical-section craters, more suitable for modeling infrared beaming at short wavelengths than the standard method.",
keywords = "Asteroids, surfaces, Infrared observations, Spectroscopy",
author = "Christopher Magri and Howell, {Ellen S.} and Vervack, {Ronald J.} and Nolan, {Michael C.} and Fern{\'a}ndez, {Yanga R.} and Marshall, {Sean E.} and Crowell, {Jenna L.}",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank P. Hayne and L. Young for sharing details of their thermophysical models prior to publication. We also thank an anonymous reviewer for suggesting the model test described in the Appendix, which led to improvements in the paper and in our software, and another reviewer whose comments led to the analysis summarized in Figs. 6 and 7 and Table 1. C. M. was supported by the JHU/APL VORTICES node of NASA{\textquoteright}s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) through a subcontract to the University of Maine at Farmington. S. E. M. was supported by a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NASA grant NNX15AR14H ). We also acknowledge the support of NSF grants AST-0808064 and AST-1109855 in carrying out this work. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/j.icarus.2017.11.025",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "303",
pages = "203--219",
journal = "Icarus",
issn = "0019-1035",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}