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1. Seasonal erosion and restoration of the dust cover on comet 67P/Churyumov‐Gerasimenko as observed by OSIRIS onboard Rosetta

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Cesare Barbieri, Maria Antonieta Barucci, Jakob Deller, Gabriele Cremonese, Marco Fulle, Olivier Groussin, Jean-Loup Bertaux, J. Knollenberg, M. Küppers, Stefano Debei, Monica Lazzarin, L. M. Lara, Pedro J. Gutiérrez, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, C. Güttler, H. U. Keller, Maurizio Pajola, Géza Kovács, Ivano Bertini, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry, Detlef Koschny, Hans Rickman, Nicolas Thomas, Holger Sierks, Sonia Fornasier, E. Kührt, A. Gicquel, J.-R. Kramm, Xian Shi, Dennis Bodewits, Nilda Oklay, X. Hu, V. Da Deppo, Björn Davidsson, Stefano Mottola, Cecilia Tubiana, Giampiero Naletto, P. Gutierrez-Marques, Rafael Rodrigo, Matteo Massironi, Stubbe F. Hviid, Jürgen Blum, Philippe Lamy, Wing-Huen Ip, Jessica Agarwal, Laurent Jorda, M. Hofmann, M. De Cecco, Bastian Gundlach, Steve Boudreault, J. J. López-Moreno, S. Höfner, Michael F. A'Hearn, Francesco Marzari, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Padova] (IFN), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Operations Department (ESAC), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Department of Information Engineering [Padova] (DEI), Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), University of Bern, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Universität Bern [Bern], European Space Agency, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Swedish National Space Board, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), International Max Planck Research Schools, German Centre for Air and Space Travel, and California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA

Subjects
Comets: general, Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Comet dust, Comet, Context (language use), Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Latitude, Astrobiology, thermal modeling, individual: 67P/Churyumov [Comets], Rosetta, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, comets, Ejecta, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov, Gerasimenko, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Polar night, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [Comets], Seasonality, erosion, medicine.disease, 13. Climate action, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Erosion, sense organs
Abstract

Context. Dust deposits or dust cover are a prevalent morphology in the northern hemi-nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P). The evolution of the dust deposits was captured by the OSIRIS camera system onboard the Rosetta spacecraft having escorted the comet for over two years. The observations shed light on the fundamental role of cometary activity in shaping and transforming the surface morphology. Aims. We aim to present OSIRIS observations of surface changes over the dust deposits before and after perihelion. The distribution of changes and a timeline of their occurrence are provided. We perform a data analysis to quantify the surface changes and investigate their correlation to water activity from the dust deposits. We further discuss how the results of our investigation are related to other findings from the Rosetta mission. Methods. Surface changes were detected via systematic comparison of images, and quantified using shape-from-shading technique. Thermal models were applied to estimate the erosion of water ice in response to the increasing insolation over the areas where surface changes occurred. Modeling results were used for the interpretation of the observed surface changes. Results. Surface changes discussed here were concentrated at mid-latitudes, between about 20â-N and 40â-N, marking a global transition from the dust-covered to rugged terrains. The changes were distributed in open areas exposed to ample solar illumination and likely subject to enhanced surface erosion before perihelion. The occurrence of changes followed the southward migration of the sub-solar point across the latitudes of their distribution. The erosion at locations of most changes was at least about 0.5 m, but most likely did not exceed several meters. The erosive features before perihelion had given way to a fresh, smooth cover of dust deposits after perihelion, suggesting that the dust deposits had been globally restored by at least about 1 m with ejecta from the intensely illuminated southern hemi-nucleus around perihelion, when the north was inactive during polar night. Conclusions. The erosion and restoration of the northern dust deposits are morphological expressions of seasonality on 67P. Based on observations and thermal modeling results, it is inferred that the dust deposits contained a few percent of water ice in mass on average. Local inhomogeneity in water abundance at spatial scales below tens of meters is likely. We suspect that dust ejected from the deposits may not have escaped the comet in bulk. That is, at least half of the ejected mass was afloat in the inner-coma or/and redeposited over other areas of the nucleus.© 2017 ESO., X. Hu acknowledges the financial support from the International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science in Gottingen.The support of the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), Sweden (SNSB), and the ESA Technical Directorate is gratefully acknowledged.

Published
2017

2. Thermal modelling of water activity on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with global dust mantle and plural dust-to-ice ratio

Author

J.-R. Kramm, J.-B. Vincent, Michael Küppers, X. Hu, Gabriele Cremonese, J. J. López-Moreno, J. Agarwal, Marco Fulle, I. Hall, Maria Antonieta Barucci, M. F. A'Hearn, Björn Davidsson, Stefano Debei, Olivier Groussin, Ivano Bertini, J. Ripken, Maurizio Pajola, Ekkehard Kührt, Stubbe F. Hviid, Cecilia Tubiana, L. M. Lara, J. L. Bertaux, Giampiero Naletto, I. Büttner, Cesare Barbieri, Sonia Fornasier, Xian Shi, Nilda Oklay, R. Rodrigo, Juergen Oberst, Jakob Deller, Stefano Mottola, P. Gutierrez-Marques, C. Güttler, Detlef Koschny, Francesco Marzari, V. Da Deppo, Nicolas Thomas, P. J. Gutierrez, Jürgen Blum, Monica Lazzarin, Hans Rickman, Géza Kovács, H. U. Keller, Holger Sierks, Jörg Knollenberg, M. L. Richards, Wing-Huen Ip, Philippe Lamy, Laurent Jorda, Marc Hofmann, Steve Boudreault, M. De Cecco, Bastian Gundlach, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformationstechnik, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Universita degli Studi di Padova, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], University of Trento [Trento], Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), DLR Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Space Science [Taiwan], National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Operations Department (ESAC), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Department of Information Engineering [Padova] (DEI), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern], Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), University of Bern, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Technical University of Berlin / Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), and California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA

Subjects
Solid state: refractory, Asteroiden und Kometen, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Insolation, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Water activity, Comet, Volatile, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Solid state: volatile -methods: numerical, Astrobiology, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Comets, medicine, Comets: individual (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Comets: general, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Refractory, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], 520 Astronomy, Planetengeodäsie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, 620 Engineering, medicine.anatomical_structure, Space and Planetary Science, Sublimation (phase transition), Numerical methods, Water ice, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Nucleus
Abstract

International audience; We perform a thermo-physical analysis on water activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P). The sublimation of water is assumed to occur from beneath a global, desiccated dust mantle over the irregular-shaped nucleus. The concept of two thermal models, the recipe of model formulation and the strategy of application to comet 67P are described. For an accurate and efficient evaluation of energy input by insolation and self-heating over the nucleus, a Landscape data base is devised based on polyhedral shape models of the nucleus. We apply the thermal models to investigate the impact of certain parameters of nucleus properties on water production. It is found that the measured water production of 67P can be overall attributed to sublimation of water ice with a mass abundance of a few to 10 per cent beneath a uniform dust mantle of several millimetres to one centimetre in thickness. Insofar as 67P is concerned, we argue against the necessity to invoke assumptions on localized water activity, or on the distinction of active/dormant surface areas.

Published
2017

3. Seasonal variations in source regions of the dust jets on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Author

Pedro J. Gutiérrez, R. Rodrigo, Z. Y. Lin, Gabriele Cremonese, Olivier Groussin, J.-C. Lee, Horst Uwe Keller, Dennis Bodewits, Ivano Bertini, Laurent Jorda, I. L. Lai, J.-B. Vincent, Maria Antonieta Barucci, Detlef Koschny, Stefano Debei, Holger Sierks, Nicolas Thomas, Steve Boudreault, Marc Hofmann, Michael Küppers, Ekkehard Kührt, Jessica Agarwal, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Carsten Güttler, Jörg Knollenberg, M. De Cecco, Cesare Barbieri, W-H. Ip, Sonia Fornasier, Jakob Deller, José Juan López-Moreno, Nilda Oklay, V. Da Deppo, Stubbe F. Hviid, Philippe Lamy, Marco Fulle, Francesco Marzari, Luisa Lara, Giampiero Naletto, Björn Davidsson, Cecilia Tubiana, Monica Lazzarin, Hans Rickman, Xian Shi, Jörg-Rainer Kramm, Gábor L. Kovács, Institute of Space Science [Taiwan], National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), Space Science Institute [Macau] (SSI), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Department of Atmospheric Sciences [Taoyuan City], DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Department of Physics [Auburn], Auburn University (AU), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], University of Trento [Trento], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), European Space Agency (ESA), Universität Bern [Bern], German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Space Agency, Swedish National Space Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan), Science and Technology Development Fund (Macau), IMPEC - LATMOS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig], PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST)

Subjects
Asteroiden und Kometen, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Comet, Solar zenith angle, Individual, individuals: 67P [Comets], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Imaging data, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comets Rosetta Jets Activity, individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [Comets], 0103 physical sciences, Comets, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Surface layer, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Jet (fluid), [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Outgassing, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Local time, Sublimation (phase transition), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

We investigate the surface distribution of the source regions of dust jets on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as a function of time. Methods. The dust jet source regions were traced by the comprehensive imaging data set provided by the OSIRIS scientific camera. Results. We show in detail how the projected footpoints of the dust jets and hence the outgassing zone would move in consonance with the sunlit belt. Furthermore, a number of source regions characterized by repeated jet activity might be the result of local topographical variations or compositional heterogeneities. Conclusions. The spatial and temporal variations in source regions of the dust jets are influenced significantly by the seasonal effect. The strong dependence on the solar zenith angle and local time could be related to the gas sublimation process driven by solar insolation on a surface layer of low thermal inertia.© ESO 2019, We thank the referee for useful comments that improved the scientific content of this study. OSIRIS was built by a consortium led by the Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Gottingen, Germany, in collaboration with CISAS, University of Padova, Italy, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Granada, Spain, the Scientific Support Office of the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, the Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Institut fur Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze der Technischen Universitat Braunschweig, Germany. The support of the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), Sweden (SNSB), and the ESA Technical Directorate is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by grant number NSC102-2112-M-008-013-MY3 and NSC 101-2111-M-008-016 from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and grant number 017/2014/A1 and 039/2013/A2 of FDCT, Macau. We are indebted to the whole Rosetta mission team, Science Ground Segment, and Rosetta Mission Operation Control for their hard work making this mission possible.

Published
2019

4. Near-infrared spatially resolved spectroscopy of (136108) Haumea’s multiple system

Author

Frédéric Vachier, Christophe Dumas, Benoit Carry, Maria Antonieta Barucci, Florian Gourgeot, F. Merlin, Pedro Lacerda, J. Berthier, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de biologie et chimie des protéines [Lyon] (IBCP), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Queens University Belfast, European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)

Subjects
Physics, Orbital elements, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), [PHYS]Physics [physics], Solar System, Very Large Telescope, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Near-infrared spectroscopy, Haumea, Dwarf planet, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Far infrared, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

The transneptunian region of the solar system is populated by a wide variety of icy bodies showing great diversity. The dwarf planet (136108) Haumea is among the largest TNOs and displays a highly elongated shape and hosts two moons, covered with crystalline water ice like Hamuea. Haumea is also the largest member of the sole TNO family known to date. A catastrophic collision is likely responsible for its unique characteristics. We report here on the analysis of a new set of observations of Haumea obtained with SINFONI at the ESO VLT. Combined with previous data, and using light-curve measurements in the optical and far infrared, we carry out a rotationally resolved spectroscopic study of the surface of Haumea. We describe the physical characteristics of the crystalline water ice present on the surface of Haumea for both regions, in and out of the Dark Red Spot (DRS), and analyze the differences obtained for each individual spectrum. The presence of crystalline water ice is confirmed over more than half of the surface of Haumea. Our measurements of the average spectral slope confirm the redder characteristic of the spot region. Detailed analysis of the crystalline water-ice absorption bands do not show significant differences between the DRS and the remaining part of the surface. We also present the results of applying Hapke modeling to our data set. The best spectral fit is obtained with a mixture of crystalline water ice (grain sizes smaller than 60 micron) with a few percent of amorphous carbon. Improvements to the fit are obtained by adding ~10% of amorphous water ice. Additionally, we used the IFU-reconstructed images to measure the relative astrometric position of the largest satellite Hi`iaka and determine its orbital elements. An orbital solution was computed with our genetic-based algorithm GENOID and our results are in full agreement with recent results., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A

Published
2016

5. The primordial nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Author

Stefano Debei, Maria Antonieta Barucci, Holger Sierks, Philippe Lamy, Björn Davidsson, R. Moissl-Fraund, Cecilia Tubiana, Cesare Barbieri, J. J. Lopez Moreno, S. Höfner, Rafael Rodrigo, J.-R. Kramm, Michael F. A'Hearn, Marco Fulle, Colin Snodgrass, Luisa Lara, Michael Küppers, Sonia Fornasier, A.-T. Auger, Francesco Marzari, J. Knollenberg, Gabriele Cremonese, Pedro J. Gutiérrez, Ekkehard Kührt, Monica Lazzarin, Wing-Huen Ip, Laurent Jorda, Maurizio Pajola, Carsten Güttler, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, H. U. Keller, Hans Rickman, M. De Cecco, Detlef Koschny, Nicolas Thomas, C. Feller, F. La Forgia, Nilda Oklay, V. Da Deppo, Olivier Groussin, Ivano Bertini, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Géza Kovács, Giampiero Naletto, Stefano Mottola, Matteo Massironi, Stubbe F. Hviid, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Universita degli Studi di Padova, Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Dipartimento di Geoscienze [Padova], School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes], Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [Milton Keynes], The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)-The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), University of Trento [Trento], Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), DLR Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Operations Department (ESAC), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Department of Information Engineering [Padova] (DEI), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, TWN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Gauss Professor Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Padova] (IFN), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)

Subjects
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Kuiper belt: general, protoplanetary disks, Solar System, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Comet dust, Comet, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrobiology, 0103 physical sciences, Comets, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, comets, Kuiper belt, Physics, Comet tail, Nice model, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Accretion (astrophysics), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Interstellar comet, Physics::Space Physics, comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko / Kuiper belt: general / protoplanetary disks, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Formation and evolution of the Solar System
Abstract

We investigate the formation and evolution of comet nuclei and other trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the solar nebula and primordial disk prior to the giant planet orbit instability foreseen by the Nice model. Aims. Our goal is to determine whether most observed comet nuclei are primordial rubble-pile survivors that formed in the solar nebula and young primordial disk or collisional rubble piles formed later in the aftermath of catastrophic disruptions of larger parent bodies. We also propose a concurrent comet and TNO formation scenario that is consistent with observations. Methods. We used observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft, particularly by the OSIRIS camera system, combined with data from the NASA Stardust sample-return mission to comet 81P/Wild 2 and from meteoritics; we also used existing observations from ground or from spacecraft of irregular satellites of the giant planets, Centaurs, and TNOs. We performed modeling of thermophysics, hydrostatics, orbit evolution, and collision physics. Results. We find that thermal processing due to short-lived radionuclides, combined with collisional processing during accretion in the primordial disk, creates a population of medium-sized bodies that are comparably dense, compacted, strong, heavily depleted in supervolatiles like CO and CO2; they contain little to no amorphous water ice, and have experienced extensive metasomatism and aqueous alteration due to liquid water. Irregular satellites Phoebe and Himalia are potential representatives of this population. Collisional rubble piles inherit these properties from their parents. Contrarily, comet nuclei have low density, high porosity, weak strength, are rich in supervolatiles, may contain amorphous water ice, and do not display convincing evidence of in situ metasomatism or aqueous alteration. We outline a comet formation scenario that starts in the solar nebula and ends in the primordial disk, that reproduces these observed properties, and additionally explains the presence of extensive layering on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and on 9P/Tempel 1 observed by Deep Impact), its bi-lobed shape, the extremely slow growth of comet nuclei as evidenced by recent radiometric dating, and the low collision probability that allows primordial nuclei to survive the age of the solar system. Conclusions. We conclude that observed comet nuclei are primordial rubble piles, and not collisional rubble piles. We argue that TNOs formed as a result of streaming instabilities at sizes below ~400 km and that ~350 of these grew slowly in a low-mass primordial disk to the size of Triton, Pluto, and Eris, causing little viscous stirring during growth. We thus propose a dynamically cold primordial disk, which prevented medium-sized TNOs from breaking into collisional rubble piles and allowed the survival of primordial rubble-pile comets. We argue that comets formed by hierarchical agglomeration out of material that remained after TNO formation, and that this slow growth was a necessity to avoid thermal processing by short-lived radionuclides that would lead to loss of supervolatiles, and that allowed comet nuclei to incorporate ~3 Myr old material from the inner solar system.

Published
2016

6. VIRTIS: An imaging spectrometer for the ROSETTA mission

Author

Wing-Huen Ip, Michael R. Combi, Priscilla Cerroni, Gabriele Arnold, E. Epifani, V. Formisano, Yves Langevin, M. Dami, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Ulrich Schade, S. Fonti, M. Bouyé, E. Ress, G. P. Tozzi, M. Combes, Roberto Orosei, Costanzo Federico, Angioletta Coradini, A. Fave, S. Espinasse, M. I. Blecka, D. Tiphene, Jean-Pierre Bibring, J. Crovisier, D. Stefanovitch, J. M. Reess, A. Stern, Maria Teresa Capria, Maria Antonieta Barucci, Bernard Schmitt, Pasquale Palumbo, G. Mondello, Pierre Drossart, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Bortolino Saggin, Vincenzo Orofino, Vito Mennella, Francesco Angrilli, J. Kachlicki, B. Pforte, A. M. DiLellis, Gerhard Neukum, D. Kouach, Thomas B. McCord, Robert W. Carlson, Fredric W. Taylor, Elisabetta Dotto, R. Bonsignori, G. Bianchini, E. Bussoletti, Uri Carsenty, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, A. Blanco, H. Hirsch, Harald Michaelis, M. C. Desanctis, Giancarlo Bellucci, G. Peter, A. Semery, R. Knoll, Y. Hello, Uwe Fink, Gerard Huntzinger, Giulio Magni, T. Encrenaz, Stefano Mottola, Luigi Colangeli, Giuseppe Piccioni, and Stéphane Erard

Subjects
Solar System, Comet, Imaging spectrometer, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, space missions, Astrobiology, Planetary science, Space and Planetary Science, Asteroid, Comet nucleus, Environmental science, comets, spectrometer, Formation and evolution of the Solar System, Cosmic dust
Abstract

The VIRTIS scientific and technical teams will take advantage of their previous experience in the design and development of spectrometers for space applications. In fact, the various groups contributing to the VIRTIS experiment, from Italy, France and Germany, have been deeply involved in the CASSINI mission, with the experiments VIMS and CIRS. The targets of the ROSETTA mission are the most primi- tive solar system bodies : comets and asteroids. ROSETTA will study in detail a comet nucleus, the prime target of the mission, and will fly by one or two asteroids. The small bodies of the solar system are of great interest for planetary science and their study is crucial to understand the solar system formation. In fact it is believed that comets and, to a lesser extent, asteroids underwent a moderate evolution so that they preserve some pristine solar system material. Comets and asteroids are in close relationship with the plan- etesimals, which formed from the solar nebula 4.6 billion years ago. The global characterisation of one comet nucleus and one or two asteroids will provide basic information on the origin of the solar system and on the interrelation between the solar system and the interstellar dust environment. The ROSETTA mission is designed to obtain the above mentioned scientific goals by : (a) in situ analysis of comet material ; (b) long period of remote sensing of the comet. The combination of remote sensing and in situ measurements will increase the scientific return of the mission. In fact, the “in situ” measurements will give relevant “ground-truth” for the remote sensing information and, in turn, the locally collected data will be interpreted in the appropriate scenario provided by remote sensing investigation. The scientific payload of ROSETTA includes a Visual InfraRed Spectral and Thermal Spectrometer (VIRTIS) among the instrument on board the spacecraft orbiting around the comet. This instrument is fundamental to detect and study the evolution of specific fingerprints—such as the typical spectral bands of minerals and molecules—arising from surface components and from materials dispersed in the coma. Their identification is a primary goal of the ROSETTA mission as it will allow us to identify the nature of the main constituent of the comets. Moreover, the surface thermal evolution during comet approach to Sun is important information that can be obtained by means of spectroscopic observation. The VIRTIS design and its detailed science goals are reported hereafter.

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