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The gas production of 14 species from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko based on DFMS/COPS data from 2014-2016

  • The coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been probed by the Rosetta spacecraft and shows a variety of different molecules. The ROSINA COmet Pressure Sensor and the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer provide in-situ densities for many volatile compounds including the 14 gas species H2O, CO2, CO, H2S, O2, C2H6, CH3OH, H2CO, CH4, NH3, HCN, C2H5OH, OCS, and CS2. We fit the observed densities during the entire comet mission between August 2014 and September 2016 to an inverse coma model. We retrieve surface emissions on a cometary shape with 3996 triangular elements for 50 separated time intervals. For each gas we derive systematic error bounds and report the temporal evolution of the production, peak production, and the time-integrated total production. We discuss the production for the two lobes of the nucleus and for the northern and southern hemispheres. Moreover we provide a comparison of the gas production with the seasonal illumination.
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Author:Matthias LäuterORCiD, Tobias KramerORCiD, Martin RubinORCiD, Kathrin AltweggORCiD
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume:498
Issue:3
First Page:3995
Last Page:4004
Publisher:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year of first publication:2020
Page Number:10
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01750
Published in:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2643
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