The organic-rich surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by VIRTIS/Rosetta

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作者
Capaccioni, F. [1 ]
Coradini, A. [1 ]
Filacchione, G. [1 ]
Erard, S. [2 ]
Arnold, G. [3 ]
Drossart, P. [2 ]
De Sanctis, M. C. [1 ]
Bockelee-Morvan, D. [2 ]
Capria, M. T. [1 ]
Tosi, F. [1 ]
Leyrat, C. [2 ]
Schmitt, B. [4 ]
Quirico, E. [4 ]
Cerroni, P. [1 ]
Mennella, V. [5 ]
Raponi, A. [1 ]
Ciarniello, M. [1 ]
McCord, T. [6 ]
Moroz, L. [3 ]
Palomba, E. [1 ]
Ammannito, E. [7 ]
Barucci, M. A. [2 ]
Bellucci, G. [1 ]
Benkhoff, J. [8 ]
Bibring, J. P. [9 ]
Blanco, A. [10 ]
Blecka, M. [11 ]
Carlson, R. [12 ]
Carsenty, U. [3 ]
Colangeli, L. [8 ]
Combes, M. [2 ]
Combi, M. [13 ]
Crovisier, J. [2 ]
Encrenaz, T. [2 ]
Federico, C. [14 ]
Fink, U. [15 ]
Fonti, S. [10 ]
Ip, W. H. [16 ]
Irwin, P. [17 ]
Jaumann, R. [3 ,18 ]
Kuehrt, E. [3 ]
Langevin, Y. [9 ]
Magni, G. [1 ]
Mottola, S. [3 ]
Orofino, V. [10 ]
Palumbo, P. [19 ]
Piccioni, G.
Schade, U. [20 ]
Taylor, F. [17 ]
Tiphene, D. [2 ]
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Astrofis INAF, Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Paris 06, Lab Etud Spatiales & Instrumentat Astrophys, Observ Paris,CNRS, Meudon, France
[3] Deutsch Zentrum Luft & Raumfahrt DLR, Inst Planetary Res, Berlin, Germany
[4] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Inst Planetol & Astrophys Grenoble, Grenoble, France
[5] Osserv Astron Capodimonte, INAF, I-80131 Naples, Italy
[6] Bear Fight Inst, Winthrop, WA 98862 USA
[7] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[8] European Space Agcy ESA, European Space Res & Technol Ctr ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
[9] CNRS, Inst Astrophys Spatial, F-91405 Orsay, France
[10] Univ Salento, Dipartimento Matemat & Fis Ennio De Giorgi, Lecce, Italy
[11] Polish Acad Sci, Ctr Space Res, Warsaw, Poland
[12] NASA, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[13] Univ Michigan, Space Phys Res Lab, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[14] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[15] Univ Arizona, Lunar Planetary Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[16] Natl Cent Univ, Taipei, Taiwan
[17] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[18] Free Univ Berlin, Inst Geosci, D-12249 Berlin, Germany
[19] Univ Parthenope, Naples, Italy
[20] Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin Mat & Energie, Berlin, Germany
[21] Osserv Astrofis Arcetri, INAF, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Rome, Italy
[23] Univ Maryland, Inst Phys Sci & Technol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[24] CNR, Ist Radioastron, INAF, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[25] DLR, Inst Opt Sensorsyst, Berlin, Germany
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES; WATER ICE; MICROMETEORITES; SPECTROSCOPY; 81P/WILD-2; NUCLEUS; ANALOGS; MATTER; SNOW;
D O I
10.1126/science.aaa0628
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The VIRTIS (Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence of carbon-bearing compounds on the nucleus of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The very low reflectance of the nucleus (normal albedo of 0.060 +/- 0.003 at 0.55 micrometers), the spectral slopes in visible and infrared ranges (5 to 25 and 1.5 to 5% k angstrom(-1)), and the broad absorption feature in the 2.9-to-3.6-micrometer range present across the entire illuminated surface are compatible with opaque minerals associated with nonvolatile organic macromolecular materials: a complex mixture of various types of carbon-hydrogen and/or oxygen-hydrogen chemical groups, with little contribution of nitrogen-hydrogen groups. In active areas, the changes in spectral slope and absorption feature width may suggest small amounts of water-ice. However, no ice-rich patches are observed, indicating a generally dehydrated nature for the surface currently illuminated by the Sun.
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