Search for ammonia in comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

被引：2

作者：

Faggi, S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Codella, C. ^{[1
]}

Tozzi, G. P. ^{[1
]}

Comoretto, G. ^{[1
]}

Crovisier, J. ^{[3
]}

Nesti, R. ^{[1
]}

Panella, D. ^{[1
]}

Boissier, J. ^{[4
]}

Brucato, J. R. ^{[1
]}

Bolli, P. ^{[1
]}

Massi, F. ^{[1
]}

Tofani, G. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] INAF, Osservatorio Astrofis Arcetri, Largo E Fermi 5, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[2] Univ Florence, UNIFI, I-50121 Florence, Italy

[3] Univ Paris Diderot, UPMC, Observ Paris, LESIA, Paris, France

[4] IRAM, St Martin Dheres, France

来源：

PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE | 2015年 / 118卷

关键词：

Comets: individual: C/2012 S1 (ISON); Techniques: radio observations; ISM: molecules;

D O I：

10.1016/j.pss.2015.06.009

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Comets are uniquely pristine bodies providing unique insights about the formation of our Solar System. In this work, we focus on a dynamically new comet as it enters the inner Solar System for the first time after residing for billion of years in the Oort Cloud. Such comets are particularly important because they are thought to be not differentiated by solar radiation and they are supposed to have a large quantity of organic matter close to the surface. Here we report the results of a search for NH3(1,1) emission at 23.7 GHz towards comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) using a new dual-feed K band receiver mounted on the Medicina 32-m antenna. We observed the cornet close to its perihelion, from 25 to 29 November 2013, when its heliocentric distance changed from 0.25 AU to 0.03 AU. We derive an upper limit of Q(NH3) of about 2.5 x 10(29) mol s(-1) on 26 November, that is consistent with the last peak of water production rate of similar to 2 x 10(30) mol s(-1) within the last few days before the perihelion. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：173 / 175

页数：3

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