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The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission

Colin Snodgrass ¹ Michael F. A'Hearn ² Francisco Aceituno ³ Viktor Afanasiev ⁴ Sefano Bagnulo ⁵ J. Bauer ⁶ G. Bergond ⁷ S. Besse ⁸ Nicolas Biver ^{9, 10} Dennis Bodewits ² H. Boehnhardt ¹¹ Boncho P. Bonev ¹² G. Borisov ^{5, 13} Benoit Carry ^{14, 15} V. Casanova ³ A. Cochran ¹⁶ B. C. Conn ^{17, 18} Björn Davidsson ⁶ J. K. Davies ¹⁹ J. de León ^{20, 21} E. de Mooij ²² Miguel de Val-Borro ^{23, 24, 25} M. Delacruz ²⁶ M. A. Disanti ²⁷ J. E. Drew ²⁸ René Duffard ³ Niklas Jt Edberg ²⁹ S. Faggi L. Feaga ² Alan Fitzsimmons ²² H. Fujiwara ³⁰ E. L. Gibb ³¹ M. Gillon ³² S. F. Green ¹ A. Guijarro ⁷ Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre ³³ Pedro J. Gutiérrez ³ Edith Hadamcik ³⁴ Olivier Hainaut ³⁵ Shirin Haque ³⁶ R. Hedrosa ⁷ Dean Hines ³⁷ U. Hopp ³⁸ F. Hoyo ⁷ D. Hutsemékers ³² M. Hyland ²² O. Ivanova ³⁹ E. Jehin ³² G. H. Jones ^{40, 41} J. V. Keane ²⁶ M. S. P. Kelley ² Nikolai Kiselev ⁴² J. Kleyna ²⁶ M. Kluge ³⁸ Matthew M. Knight ² R. Kokotanekova ^{1, 11} Detlef Koschny ⁴³ E. Kramer ⁶ Josè Juan Lopez-Moreno ³ Pedro Lacerda ²² Luisa M. Lara ³ Jérémie Lasue ⁴⁴ H. J. Lehto ⁴⁵ Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd ³⁴ Javier Licandro ²¹ Zhong-Yi Lin ⁴⁶ Tim Lister ⁴⁷ Stephen C. Lowry ⁴⁸ A. Mainzer ⁶ Jean Manfroid ³² J. Marchant ⁴⁹ A. J. Mckay ¹⁶ A. Mcneill ²² Karen J. Meech ²⁶ Marco Micheli ⁵⁰ Isa Mohammed ⁵¹ Maria Monguió ²⁸ Fernando Moreno ³ O. Muñoz ³ M. J. Mumma ²⁷ P. Nikolov ¹³ Cyrielle Opitom ³² José Luis Ortiz ³ Lucas Paganini ²⁷ Myriam Pajuelo ^{52, 15} Francisco J. Pozuelos ³ Silvia Protopapa ² Tapio, Pursimo ⁵³ B. Rajkumar ⁵¹ Yudish Ramanjooloo ²⁶ Christoph Ries ³⁸ Arno Riffeser ³⁸ Vera Rosenbush ⁴² Philippe Rousselot ³³ Erin Ryan ⁵⁴ Pablo Santos-Sanz ³ David G. Schleicher ⁵⁵ M. Schmidt ³⁸ R. Schulz ⁵⁶ A. K. Sen ⁵⁷ A. Somero ⁴⁵ A. Sota ³ A. Stinson ⁵ Jessica M. Sunshine ² A. Thompson ²² G. P. Tozzi ⁵⁸ Cécilia Tubiana ¹¹ G. L. Villanueva ²⁷ X. Wang ^{59, 60} D. H. Wooden ⁶¹ M. Yagi ³⁰ Bin Yang ³⁵ B. Zaprudin ⁴⁵ T. J. Zegmott ⁴⁸

1 School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes]

2 Department of Astronomy [College Park]

3 IAA - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

4 SAO - Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences

5 Armagh Observatory [Armagh]

6 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

7 CAHA - Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán, Observatorio de Calar Alto

8 ESAC - European Space Astronomy Centre

9 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique

10 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA

LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique

11 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

12 Department of Physics [Washington]

13 Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

14 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE

15 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides

16 McDonald Observatory

17 RSAA - Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Canberra]

18 Gemini Observatory [Southern Operations Center]

19 UK ATC - UK Astronomy Technology Centre

20 ULL - Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP]

21 IAC - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

22 ARC - Astrophysics Research Centre [Belfast]

23 Catholic University of America

24 Astrochemistry Laboratory [Greenbelt]

25 Department of Astrophysical Sciences [Princeton]

26 Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu]

27 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

28 School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics [Hatfield]

29 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala]

30 NAOJ - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

31 Mizzou Physics - Department of Physics and Astronomy [Columbia]

32 Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège]

33 UTINAM - Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213)

34 PLANETO - LATMOS

LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales

35 ESO - European Southern Observatory

36 Department of Physics [Trinidad]

37 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute

38 LMU - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

39 Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

40 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory

41 CPS - Centre for Planetary Sciences [UCL/Birkbeck]

42 MAO - Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS of Ukraine

43 RSSD - Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC

44 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

45 Tuorla Observatory

46 IANCU - Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan]

47 LCO - Las Cumbres Observatory

48 CAPS - Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science [Canterbury]

49 ARI - Astrophysics Research Institute [Liverpool]

50 ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre

51 CARINA - Caribbean Institute of Astronomy

52 PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

53 NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope

54 SETI Institute

55 Lowell Observatory [Flagstaff]

56 ESA Scientific Support Office

57 Assam University

58 OAA - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

59 Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects

60 Yunnan Observatories

61 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center

Abstract : We present a summary of the campaign of remote observations that supported the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. Telescopes across the globe (and in space) followed comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from before Rosetta’s arrival until nearly the end of mission in September 2016. These provided essential data for mission planning, large-scale context information for the coma and tails beyond the spacecraft, and a way to directly compare 67P with other comets. The observations revealed 67P to be a relatively ‘well behaved’ comet, typical of Jupiter family comets and with activity patterns that repeat from orbit-to-orbit. Comparison between this large collection of telescopic observations and the in situ results from Rosetta will allow us to better understand comet coma chemistry and structure. This work is just beginning as the mission ends. In this paper we present a summary of the ground-based observations and early results, and point to many questions that will be addressed in future studies.

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Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Astrophysics [astro-ph] / Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Astrophysics [astro-ph] / Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR]

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