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 Dennis Bodewits 2 H. Boehnhardt 10 Boncho P. Bonev 11 G. Borisov 5, 12 Benoit Carry 13, 14 V. Casanova 3 A. Cochran 15 B. C. Conn 16, 17 Björn Davidsson 6 J. K. Davies 18 J. de León 19, 20 E. de Mooij 21 Miguel de Val-Borro 22, 23, 24 M. Delacruz 25 M. A. Disanti 26 J. E. Drew 27 René Duffard 3 Niklas Jt Edberg 28 S. Faggi L. Feaga 2 Alan Fitzsimmons 21 H. Fujiwara 29 E. L. Gibb 30 M. Gillon 31 S. F. Green 1 A. Guijarro 7 Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre 32 Pedro J. Gutiérrez 3 Edith Hadamcik 33 Olivier Hainaut 34 Shirin Haque 35 R. Hedrosa 7 Dean Hines 36 U. Hopp 37 F. Hoyo 7 D. Hutsemékers 31 M. Hyland 21 O. Ivanova 38 E. Jehin 31 G. H. Jones 39, 40 J. V. Keane 25 M. S. P. Kelley 2 Nikolai Kiselev 41 J. Kleyna 25 M. Kluge 37 Matthew M. Knight 2 R. Kokotanekova 1, 10 Detlef Koschny 42 E. Kramer 6 Josè Juan Lopez-Moreno 3 Pedro Lacerda 21 Luisa M. Lara 3 Jérémie Lasue 43 H. J. Lehto 44 Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd 33 Javier Licandro 20 Zhong-Yi Lin 45 Tim Lister 46 Stephen C. Lowry 47 A. Mainzer 6 Jean Manfroid 31 J. Marchant 48 A. J. Mckay 15 A. Mcneill 21 Karen J. Meech 25 Marco Micheli 49 Isa Mohammed 50 Maria Monguió 27 Fernando Moreno 3 O. Muñoz 3 M. J. Mumma 26 P. Nikolov 12 Cyrielle Opitom 31 José Luis Ortiz 3 Lucas Paganini 26 Myriam Pajuelo 51, 14 Francisco J. Pozuelos 3 Silvia Protopapa 2 Tapio, Pursimo 52 B. Rajkumar 50 Yudish Ramanjooloo 25 Christoph Ries 37 Arno Riffeser 37 Vera Rosenbush 41 Philippe Rousselot 32 Erin Ryan 53 Pablo Santos-Sanz 3 David G. Schleicher 54 M. Schmidt 37 R. Schulz 55 A. K. Sen 56 A. Somero 44 A. Sota 3 A. Stinson 5 Jessica M. Sunshine 2 A. Thompson 21 G. P. Tozzi 57 Cécilia Tubiana 10 G. L. Villanueva 26 X. Wang 58, 59 D. H. Wooden 60 M. Yagi 29 B. Yang 34 B. Zaprudin 44 T. J. Zegmott 47
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 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
11 Department of Physics [Washington]
12 Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
13 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
14 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
15 McDonald Observatory
16 RSAA - Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Canberra]
17 Gemini Observatory [Southern Operations Center]
18 UK ATC - UK Astronomy Technology Centre
19 ULL - Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP]
20 IAC - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
21 ARC - Astrophysics Research Centre [Belfast]
22 Catholic University of America
23 Astrochemistry Laboratory [Greenbelt]
24 Department of Astrophysical Sciences [Princeton]
25 Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu]
26 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
27 School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics [Hatfield]
28 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala]
29 NAOJ - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
30 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Columbia]
31 Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège]
32 UTINAM - Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213)
33 IMPEC - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
34 ESO - European Southern Observatory
35 Department of Physics [Trinidad]
36 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute
37 LMU - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
38 Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
39 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory
40 CPS - Centre for Planetary Sciences [UCL/Birkbeck]
41 MAO - Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS of Ukraine
42 RSSD - Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC
43 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
44 Tuorla Observatory
45 IANCU - Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan]
46 LCO - Las Cumbres Observatory
47 CAPS - Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science [Canterbury]
48 ARI - Astrophysics Research Institute [Liverpool]
49 ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre
50 CARINA - Caribbean Institute of Astronomy
51 PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
52 NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope
53 SETI Institute
54 Lowell Observatory [Flagstaff]
55 ESA Scientific Support Office
56 Assam University
57 OAA - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
58 Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects
59 Yunnan Observatories
60 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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Colin Snodgrass, Michael F. A'Hearn, Francisco Aceituno, Viktor Afanasiev, Sefano Bagnulo, et al.. The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Royal Society, The, 2017, 375 (n° 2097), ⟨10.1098/rsta.2016.0249⟩. ⟨insu-01401839⟩

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