Pronounced morphological changes in a southern active zone on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Autor: Pedro Hasselmann, Giampiero Naletto, Carsten Güttler, Horst Uwe Keller, Detlef Koschny, Philippe Lamy, J. M. Sunshine, J. D. P. Deshapriya, L. M. Lara, Francesco Marzari, M. De Cecco, S. Fornasier, R. Rodrigo, Holger Sierks, V. Da Deppo, Monica Lazzarin, G. Cremonese, Marco Fulle, Ivano Bertini, Björn Davidsson, Dennis Bodewits, P. J. Gutierrez, Cecilia Tubiana, Stefano Debei, Van H. Hoang, Xian Shi, M. A. Barucci, W-H. Ip, Clement Feller, J.-L. Bertaux, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, J. J. Lopez-Moreno, Jakob Deller
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Institute of Physics [Hanoi], Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Padova] (IFN), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Department of Physics [Auburn], Auburn University (AU), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Space Science Institute [Macau] (SSI), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), University of Trento [Trento], ANR-17-CE31-0004,CLASSY,Composition des surfaces du Système Solaire de bas albédo(2017), German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Space Agency, Swedish National Space Agency, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), IMPEC - LATMOS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA
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Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Astronomy and Astrophysics-A&A
Astronomy and Astrophysics-A&A, 2019, 630, A8 (19p.). ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201833940⟩
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Astronomy and Astrophysics-A&A, EDP Sciences, 2019, 630, A8 (19p.). ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201833940⟩
Astronomy & astrophysics
630 (2019). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833940
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Hasselmann, P. H.; Barucci, M. A.; Fornasier, S.; Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Deshapriya, J. D.P.; Feller, C.; Sunshine, J.; Hoang, V.; Sierks, H.; Naletto, G.; Lamy, P. L.; Rodrigo, R.; Koschny, D.; Davidsson, B.; Bertaux, J. L.; Bertini, I.; Bodewits, D.; Cremonese, G.; Da Deppo, V.; Debei, S.; Fulle, M.; Gutierrez, P. J.; Güttler, C.; Deller, J.; Ip, W. H.; Keller, H. U.; Lara, L. M.; De Cecco, M.; Lazzarin, M.; López-Moreno, J. J.L.; Marzari, F.; Shi, X.; Tubiana, C./titolo:Pronounced morphological changes in a southern active zone on comet 67P%2FChuryumov-Gerasimenko/doi:10.1051%2F0004-6361%2F201833940/rivista:Astronomy & astrophysics (Print)/anno:2019/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:630
ISSN: 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833940⟩
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A smooth deposit in the southern Khonsu region has been seen in ESA/Rosetta observations as active during the second half of 2015, when the southern summer coincided with the perihelion passage of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P). Image color sequences acquired by the OSIRIS instrument in the period of January 2015 to July 2016, pre- and post-perihelion, show the occurrence of several small transient events as well as three massive outbursts (-10 to 1500 tons). High spatial resolution images taken one year and a half apart allowed us to track a variety of sources: the formation of cavities that are 1.3-14 m deep, ice-enriched patches, scarp retraction, and a second 50 m-wide boulder. We then estimated their masses and the dust mass of their corresponding plumes and outbursts. In particular, the deformation left by that boulder and its lack of talus may provide evidence for the lifting and subsequent falling back to the surface of large blocks. We calculate that a minimum vapor production rate of 1.4 x 10(24) m(-2) s(-1) is required to lift such an object. The comparison of the masses that are lost in the new cavities to the dust mass of outbursts gives indirect evidence of highly volatile ice pockets underneath. The spectrophotometric analysis and boulder counting also provides evidence for cavities that formed only 30 m apart with different spectral slopes, two long-standing ice patches, and local variations in the boulder-size frequency distribution. All this points to sub-surface ice pockets with different degrees of depth. Finally, the total mass of the morphological changes compared to most recent calculations of the total released mass by activity on 67P is estimated to be between 1.5 and 4.2%. This means that as many as about 25 similar active zones across the nucleus would be enough to sustain the entire cometary activity.© P. H. Hasselmann et al. 2019
P.H.H. would like to thank Alice Bernard for her support. This work was funded by the DIM-ACAV project (Ile-de-France). OSIRIS was built by a consortium of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Gottingen, Germany, CISAS-University of Padova, Italy, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Granada, Spain, the Research and Scientific Support Department of the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, the Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Institut fur Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze der Technischen Universitat Braunschweig, Germany. The support of the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), Sweden (SNSB), and the ESA Technical Directorate is gratefully acknowledged. We acknowledge the financial support from the France Agence Nationale de la Recherche (programme Classy, ANR-17-CE31-0004).
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