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Sublimation of icy aggregates in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko detected with the OSIRIS cameras on board Rosetta.

Adeline Gicquel 1 Jean-Baptiste Vincent 1 Jessica Agarwal 1 Michael F. A'Hearn 2 Ivano Bertini 3 Dennis Bodewits 2 Holger Sierks 1 Zhong-Yi Lin 4 Cesara Barbieri 5 Philippe Lamy 6 Rafael Rodrigo 7, 8 Detlief Koschny 9 Hans Rickman 10, 11 Horst Uwe Keller 12 Maria Antonella Barucci 13 Jean-Loup Bertaux 14 S. Besse 15 Gabriele Cremonese 16 Vania da Deppo 17 Björn Davidsson 11 Stefano Debei 18 Jakob Deller 1 Mariolino de Cecco 19 E. Frattin 16 Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry 20 Sonia Fornasier 13 Marco Fulle 21 O. Groussin 6 Pedro J. Gutiérrez 22 Pablo Gutiérrez-Marquez 1 Carsten Güttler 1 S. Höfner 1, 12 Marc Hofmann 1 X. Hu 1 Stubbe F. Hviid 23 Wing-Huen Ip 4 Laurent Jorda 6 J. Knollenberg 23 G. Kovacs 24, 1 J.-R. Kramm 1 Ekkehard Kührt 23 M. Küppers 25 Luisa M. Lara 22 Monica Lazzarin 5 José J. Lopez Moreno 22 S. Lowry 26 F. Marzari 5 N. Masoumzadeh 1 M. Massironi 3 F. Moreno 22 S. Mottola 23 Giampiero Naletto 3, 27, 17 N. Oklay 1 M. Pajola 3 A. Pommerol 20 Frank Preusker 23 Frank Scholten 23 X. Shi 1 Nicolas Thomas 20 I. Toth 6, 27 Cécilia Tubiana 1
1 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
2 Department of Astronomy [College Park]
3 CISAS - Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali “Giuseppe Colombo”
4 Institute of Space Science [Taiwan]
5 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei"
6 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
7 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
8 ISSI - International Space Science Institute [Bern]
9 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
10 CBK - Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences
11 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala]
12 IGEP - Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig]
13 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
14 IMPEC - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
15 RSSD - Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC
16 OAPD - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
17 IFN - CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies
18 Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova]
19 University of Trento [Trento]
20 Physikalisches Institut [Bern]
21 OAT - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
22 IAA - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
23 DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
24 MOMEI - Department of Mechatronics, Optics and Mechanical Engineering Informatics
25 Operations Department (ESAC)
26 CAPS - Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science [Canterbury]
27 DEI - Department of Information Engineering [Padova]
Abstract : Beginning in March 2014, the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) cameras began capturing images of the nucleus and coma (gas and dust) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using both the wide angle camera (WAC) and the narrow angle camera (NAC). The many observations taken since July of 2014 have been used to study the morphology, location, and temporal variation of the comet’s dust jets. We analyzed the dust monitoring observations shortly after the southern vernal equinox on May 30 and 31, 2015 with the WAC at the heliocentric distance Rh = 1.53 AU, where it is possible to observe that the jet rotates with the nucleus. We found that the decline of brightness as a function of the distance of the jet is much steeper than the background coma, which is a first indication of sublimation. We adapted a model of sublimation of icy aggregates and studied the effect as a function of the physical properties of the aggregates (composition and size). The major finding of this article was that through the sublimation of the aggregates of dirty grains (radius a between 5μm and 50μm) we were able to completely reproduce the radial brightness profile of a jet beyond 4 km from the nucleus. To reproduce the data we needed to inject a number of aggregates between 8.5 × 1013 and 8.5 × 1010 for a = 5μm and 50μm respectively, or an initial mass of H2O ice around 22kg.
Keywords : comets observational method: numerical method 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko data analysis
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Adeline Gicquel, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Jessica Agarwal, Michael F. A'Hearn, Ivano Bertini, et al.. Sublimation of icy aggregates in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko detected with the OSIRIS cameras on board Rosetta.. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A, 2016, 462 (Suppl. 1), pp.S57-S66. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stw2117⟩. ⟨insu-01367966⟩

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