Cometary dust organics analogues: production, composition and scattered light

Edith Hadamcik (1) , Jean-Baptiste Renard (2) , Nathalie Carrasco (3, 1) , Maïa Kuga (4) , Laurent Tissandier (4) , Cyril Szopa (1)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
3 IUF - Institut Universitaire de France
4 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques

Polarimetric observations of cometary comae may be used to infer dust particles properties through experimental simulations. Cometary organic solid materials are poorly known. Here different organic materials found in nature or synthetic are studied. Their light scattering response was correlated to their chemical composition (under heating or not). Some cometary dust analogues were obtained by mixing them with silicates and lifted in the PROGRA2 light scattering experiment.

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Edith Hadamcik, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Nathalie Carrasco, Maïa Kuga, Laurent Tissandier, et al.. Cometary dust organics analogues: production, composition and scattered light. European Planetary Science Congress 2015, Sep 2015, Nantes, France. pp.EPSC2015-506. ⟨insu-01208512⟩