Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Samuel Gulkis; Mark Allen; Paul Von Allmen; Gerard Beaudin; Nicolas Biver; Dominique Bockelée-Morvan; Mathieu Choukroun; Jacques Crovisier; Björn J.R. Davidsson; Pierre Encrenaz; Therese Encrenaz; Margaret Frerking; Paul Hartogh; Mark Hofstadter; Wing Huen Ip; Michael Janssen; Christopher Jarchow; Stephen Keihm; Seungwon Lee; Emmanuel Lellouch; Cedric Leyrat; Ladislav Rezac; F. Peter Schloerb; Thomas Spilker

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Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Samuel Gulkis, Mark Allen, Paul Von Allmen, Gerard Beaudin, Nicolas Biver, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Mathieu Choukroun, Jacques Crovisier, Björn J.R. Davidsson, Pierre Encrenaz, Therese Encrenaz, Margaret Frerking, Paul Hartogh, Mark Hofstadter, Wing Huen Ip, Michael Janssen, Christopher Jarchow, Stephen Keihm, Seungwon Lee, Emmanuel LellouchCedric Leyrat, Ladislav Rezac, F. Peter Schloerb, Thomas Spilker

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Heat transport and ice sublimation in comets are interrelated processes reflecting properties acquired at the time of formation and during subsequent evolution. The Microwave Instrument on the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) acquired maps of the subsurface temperature of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, at 1.6 mm and 0.5 mm wavelengths, and spectra of water vapor. The total H₂O production rate varied from 0.3 kg s^-1 in early June 2014 to 1.2 kg s^-1 in late August and showed periodic variations related to nucleus rotation and shape. Water outgassing was localized to the "neck" region of the comet. Subsurface temperatures showed seasonal and diurnal variations, which indicated that the submillimeter radiation originated at depths comparable to the diurnal thermal skin depth. A low thermal inertia (∼10 to 50 J K^-1 m^-2 s^-0.5), consistent with a thermally insulating powdered surface, is inferred.

Original language	English
Article number	aaa070
Journal	Science
Volume	347
Issue number	6220
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0709
State	Published - 23 Jan 2015

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Gulkis, S., Allen, M., Von Allmen, P., Beaudin, G., Biver, N., Bockelée-Morvan, D., Choukroun, M., Crovisier, J., Davidsson, B. J. R., Encrenaz, P., Encrenaz, T., Frerking, M., Hartogh, P., Hofstadter, M., Ip, W. H., Janssen, M., Jarchow, C., Keihm, S., Lee, S., ... Spilker, T. (2015). Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Science, 347(6220), Article aaa070. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0709

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Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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