TY - JOUR
T1 - Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
AU - Gulkis, Samuel
AU - Allen, Mark
AU - Von Allmen, Paul
AU - Beaudin, Gerard
AU - Biver, Nicolas
AU - Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique
AU - Choukroun, Mathieu
AU - Crovisier, Jacques
AU - Davidsson, Björn J.R.
AU - Encrenaz, Pierre
AU - Encrenaz, Therese
AU - Frerking, Margaret
AU - Hartogh, Paul
AU - Hofstadter, Mark
AU - Ip, Wing Huen
AU - Janssen, Michael
AU - Jarchow, Christopher
AU - Keihm, Stephen
AU - Lee, Seungwon
AU - Lellouch, Emmanuel
AU - Leyrat, Cedric
AU - Rezac, Ladislav
AU - Schloerb, F. Peter
AU - Spilker, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/23
Y1 - 2015/1/23
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aaa0709
DO - 10.1126/science.aaa0709
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:84922037255
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 347
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6220
M1 - aaa070
ER -