Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta

Keller, Horst Uwe, Küppers, Michael, Fornasier, Sonia, Gutiérrez, Pedro J., Hviid, Stubbe F., Jorda, Laurent, Knollenberg, Jörg, Lowry, Stephen C., Rengel, Miriam, Bertini, Ivano, and others. (2007) Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta. Icarus, 187 (1). pp. 87-103. ISSN 0019-1035. (doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.023) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:52309)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.023

Abstract

The OSIRIS cameras on the Rosetta spacecraft observed Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 5 days before to 10 days after it was hit by the Deep Impact projectile. The Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) monitored the cometary dust in 5 different filters. The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) observed through filters sensitive to emissions from OH, CN, Na, and OI together with the associated continuum. Before and after the impact the comet showed regular variations in intensity. The period of the brightness changes is consistent with the rotation period of Tempel 1. The overall brightness of Tempel 1 decreased by about 10% during the OSIRIS observations. The analysis of the impact ejecta shows that no new permanent coma structures were created by the impact. Most of the material moved with ~200 m s-1. Much of it left the comet in the form of icy grains which sublimated and fragmented within the first hour after the impact. The light curve of the comet after the impact and the amount of material leaving the comet (4.5 - 9 x 10^6 kg of water ice and a presumably larger amount of dust) suggest that the impact ejecta were quickly accelerated by collisions with gas molecules. Therefore, the motion of the bulk of the ejecta cannot be described by ballistic trajectories, and the validity of determinations of the density and tensile strength of the nucleus of Tempel 1 with models using ballistic ejection of particles is uncertain. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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DOI/Identification number:	10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.023
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Uncontrolled keywords:	coma, Comet Tempel-1, Comets, Impact processes
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	Stephen Lowry
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2015 22:56 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 10:38 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/52309 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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