1. Chemical composition of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu from synchrotron spectroscopy in the mid- to far-infrared of Hayabusa2-returned samples
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Emmanuel Dartois, Yoko Kebukawa, Hikaru Yabuta, Jérémie Mathurin, Cécile Engrand, Jean Duprat, Laure Bejach, Alexandre Dazzi, Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Lydie Bonal, Eric Quirico, Christophe Sandt, Ferenc Borondics, Jens Barosch, George D. Cody, Brad T. De Gregorio, Minako Hashiguchi, David A. L. Kilcoyne, Mutsumi Komatsu, Zita Martins, Megumi Matsumoto, Gilles Montagnac, Smail Mostefaoui, Larry R. Nittler, Takuji Ohigashi, Taiga Okumura, Laurent Remusat, Scott Sandford, Miho Shigenaka, Rhonda Stroud, Hiroki Suga, Yoshio Takahashi, Yasuo Takeichi, Yusuke Tamenori, Maximilien Verdier-Paoletti, Shohei Yamashita, Tomoki Nakamura, Tomoyo Morita, Mizuha Kikuiri, Kana Amano, Eiichi Kagawa, Takaaki Noguchi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Ryuji Okazaki, Kanako Sakamoto, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Masanao Abe, Kanami Kamide, Akiko Miyazaki, Aiko Nakato, Satoru Nakazawa, Masahiro Nishimura, Tatsuaki Okada, Takanao Saiki, Shogo Tachibana, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Yuichi Tsuda, Tomohiro Usui, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Toru Yada, Kasumi Yogata, Makoto Yoshikawa, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Yokohama National University, Hiroshima University, Institut de Chimie Physique (ICP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Carnegie Institution of Washington, US Naval Research Laboratory, Nagoya University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Waseda University [Tokyo, Japan], Universidade de Lisboa, Tohoku University [Sendai], Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon (Ens Lyon), Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility (UVSOR), Institute for Molecular Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute [Hyogo] (JASRI), KEK (High energy accelerator research organization), Kyoto University, Kyushu University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Sagamihara] (JAXA), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], and Kanagawa Institute of Technology
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meteoroids -methods: laboratory: solid statetechniques: imaging spectroscopy -techniques: spectroscopic -protoplanetary disks ,asteroids: individual: Ryugu -meteorites ,Space and Planetary Science ,minor planets ,[SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP] ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,meteors ,minor planets asteroids: individual: Ryugu -meteorites meteors meteoroids -methods: laboratory: solid statetechniques: imaging spectroscopy -techniques: spectroscopic -protoplanetary disks - Abstract
Context. The current period is conducive to exploring our Solar System's origins with recent and future space sample return missions, which provide invaluable information from known Solar System asteroids and comets The Hayabusa2 mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently brought back samples from the surface of the Ryugu carbonaceous asteroid. Aims. We aim to identify the different forms of chemical composition of organic matter and minerals that constitute these Solar System primitive objects, to shed light on the Solar System's origins. Methods. In this work, we recorded infrared (IR) hyper-spectral maps of whole-rock Ryugu asteroid samples at the highest achievable spatial resolution with a synchrotron in the mid-IR (MIR). Additional global far-IR (FIR) spectra of each sample were also acquired. Results. The hyper-spectral maps reveal the variability of the functional groups at small scales and the intimate association of phyl-losilicates with the aliphatic components of the organic matter present in Ryugu. The relative proportion of column densities of the identified IR functional groups (aliphatics, hydroxyl + interlayer and/or physisorbed water, carbonyl, carbonates, and silicates) giving access to the composition of the Ryugu samples is estimated from these IR hyper-spectral maps. Phyllosilicate spectra reveal the presence of mixtures of serpentine and saponite. We do not detect anhydrous silicates in the samples analysed, at the scales probed. The carbonates are dominated by dolomite. Aliphatics organics are distributed over the whole samples at the micron scale probed with the synchrotron, and intimately mixed with the phyllosilicates. The aromatic C=C contribution could not be safely deconvolved from OH in most spectra, due to the ubiquitous presence of hydrated minerals. The peak intensity ratios of the organics methylene to methyl (CH2/CH3) of the Ryugu samples vary between about 1.5 and 2.5, and are compared to the ratios in chondrites from types 1 to 3. Overall, the mineralogical and organic characteristics of the Ryugu samples show similarities with those of CI chondrites, although with a noticeably higher CH2/CH3 in Ryugu than generally measured in C1 chondrites collected on Earth, and possibly a higher carbonate content.
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- 2023