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Adjunct ProfessorUBC Physics & AstronomyUniversity of British Columbia

John Kavelaars

Adjunct Professor

UBC Physics & Astronomy

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
67 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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429

Publications

6,253

Citations

122

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Research

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Latest papers

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026
Col-OSSOS: Investigating the Origins of Different Surfaces in the Primordial Kuiper Belt
The Planetary Science Journal · 2026
Deep Ground Based Searches for New Horizons Encounter Targets
2026 · first author

All 429 publications

From the 150 most recent of 429 publications.

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Devanshi Singh, Henry H. Hsieh, Ian S. Sullivan, R. Lynne Jones, Jacob A. Kurlander, Dmitrii Vavilov, Siegfried Eggl, Matthew J. Holman, F. Spoto, Megan E. Schwamb, Lauren A. MacArthur, Rahil Makadia, M. Micheli, A. Heinze, E. Christensen, Wilson Beebe, Aaron J. Roodman, Kian-Tat Lim, Tim Jenness, James Bosch, Brianna Smart, Eric C. Bellm, Sean Macbride, Meredith L. Rawls, Sarah Greenstreet, Colin T. Slater, Željko Ivezić, et al. (306 authors)

The Astrophysical Journal Letters20268 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae4b3a

Col-OSSOS: Investigating the Origins of Different Surfaces in the Primordial Kuiper Belt

Laura E. Buchanan, Megan E. Schwamb, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister, J. J. Kavelaars, Michaël Marsset, Rosemary E. Pike, David Nesvorný, Samantha Lawler, Susan Benecchi, Nuno Peixinho, Nicole J. Tan, Kathryn Volk, Mike Alexandersen, Jean-Marc Petit

The Planetary Science Journal20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3847/psj/ae2fc1

Deep Ground Based Searches for New Horizons Encounter Targets

J. J. Kavelaars, Colin Chandler, Wesley Fraser, The AstroLEAP Phase A/B1 study team

2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5194/epsc2026-751

Exoplanet Search and Characterization with the Proposed POET Canadian Space Mission

Metchev S, Rowe J, Miles-Páez P, Hoffman K, Lambier S, Cloutier R, Ishikawa H, Kavelaars J, Kunimoto M, Lafrenière D

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.24485

Size, Shape, Density, and Atmospheric Limit of (50000) Quaoar Revealed from 14 years of Stellar Occultation

G. Margoti, F. Braga-Ribas, José Luis Ortiz, B. Sicardy, J. Desmars, Bruno Eduardo Morgado, Eros de Oliveira Gradovski, C. L. Pereira, P. Santos-Sanz, A. R. Gomes-Júnior, J. I. B. Camargo, M. Assafin, Roberto Vieira-Martins, Yucel Kilic, D. Souami, R. Duffárd, G. Benedetti-Rossi, Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro, Maísa Poiani, Eduardo Rondón, Marcelo Emilio, David Herald, Rafael Sfair, Nicolás Morales, F. Colas, F. Vachier, Mónica Vara Lubiano, Rodrigo Boufleur, Mert Acar, F. J. Aceituno, et al. (179 authors)

The Astrophysical Journal2026Open Access

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae907e

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au

Ying-Tung Chen, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Yukun Huang, J. J. Kavelaars, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister, Shiang‐Yu Wang, Chan-Kao Chang, M. J. Lehner, Fumi Yoshida, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, Edward A. Ashton, Young‐Jun Choi, Agueda Paula Granados Contreras, Takashi Itô, Youngmin JeongAhn, Jianghui Ji, Myungjin Kim, Samantha Lawler, Jian Li, Zhong-Yi Lin, Hong-Kyu Moon, Surhud More, Marco A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Keiji Ohtsuki, Lowell Peltier, Rosemary E. Pike, Tsuyoshi Terai, Seitaro Urakawa, et al. (33 authors)

Nature Astronomy20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02595-7

The CASTOR mission

Côté P, Woods TE, Hutchings JB, Rhodes JD, Sánchez-Janssen R, Scott AD, Pazder J, Amenouche M, Balogh M, Blouin S

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1117/1.jatis.11.4.042202

The Classical and Large-a Solar System

Wesley C. Fraser, Samantha Lawler, Rosemary E. Pike, J. J. Kavelaars, Edward Ashton, Stephen Gwyn, Ying-Tung Chen, Brett Gladman, Yukun Huang, Jeanmarc Petit, Justine Obidowski, Lowell Peltier, Mike Alexandersen, Benoit Noyelles, Changkao Chang, Shiangyu Wang, Kat Volk, Christa Van Laerhoven, Michele Bannister, Preeti Cowan, The CLASSY Team

20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5194/epsc-dps2025-955

L i DO: Exploring the Stable Plutino Parameter Space

Samantha Lawler, Mark Comte, Rosemary E. Pike, Mike Alexandersen, Ying-Tung Chen, Charles A. Collyer, Matthew J. Holman, J. J. Kavelaars, Lowell Peltier, Cameron Semenchuck

The Planetary Science Journal20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3847/psj/adc10c

Exoplanet search and characterization with the proposed POET Canadian space mission

Metchev S, Rowe J, Miles-Páez P, Hoffman K, Lambier S, Cloutier R, Ishikawa HT, Kavelaars JJ, Kunimoto M, Lafrenière D

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering2025

DOI: 10.1117/12.3064793

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John Kavelaars

Research

Latest papers

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Col-OSSOS: Investigating the Origins of Different Surfaces in the Primordial Kuiper Belt

Deep Ground Based Searches for New Horizons Encounter Targets

Exoplanet Search and Characterization with the Proposed POET Canadian Space Mission

Size, Shape, Density, and Atmospheric Limit of (50000) Quaoar Revealed from 14 years of Stellar Occultation

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au

The CASTOR mission

The Classical and Large-a Solar System

L i DO: Exploring the Stable Plutino Parameter Space

Exoplanet search and characterization with the proposed POET Canadian space mission

Frequent collaborators

JJ Kavelaars

Brett Gladman

Samantha Lawler

Brenda Matthews

Sebastien Fabbro

James Di Francesco

William Edgar Harris

Patrick Cote

Marcin Sawicki

Michael Balogh

Renee Hlozek

Jo Bovy

Douglas Johnstone

Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Kim Venn

Jason Rowe

Paul Wiegert

Alan McConnachie

Stan Metchev

Stanimir Metchev

Will Percival

Gregg Wade