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The Dusty View of DI from ESO Chile
Boehnhardt, H.; Ageorges, N.; Bagnulo, S. et al.
2009In Käufk, H. U.; Sterken, C. (Eds.) Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event: Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength
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Abstract :
[en] Around the time of the impact of NASA's Deep Impact (DI) mission at comet 9P/Tempel 1, in total 6 telescopes with altogether 7 different instruments, located at the La Silla (LSO) and Paranal (VLT) Observatories of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, were used to characterize the dust properties before and after the event. The ejecta cloud expanded at an average speed of about 200 ms[SUP]-1[/SUP]during the first hours after the event. It reached stagnation distance of 25000 km about 3 days after impact. The pre-impact dust jet and fan activity (`porcupine' pattern) remained undisturbed after impact. In our measurements the jet activity can be traced to a few 100 km nucleus distance. In total 9 comastructures are identified which may originate from at least 4 regions of enhanced dust emission on the nucleus - one of this region may in fact be multiple. No obvious signatures of a new active region created by DI are found. The overall dust production during the impact compares to about 5-10 h of normal activity. The global expansion geometry of the DI cloud is compatible with a majority of dust grains in the micron size range. Indications exist for asymmetric brightness and colour distributions of the dust in the ejecta cloud. The dust temperature rose from about 280-290 K before to 330 K one day after the event and fell to pre-impact level the day thereafter. The dust reflected sunlight was found to be linearly polarized at about 7.5% in the visible and near-IR, at constant level within about 4000 km from the nucleus. No circular polarization of the dust is detected.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Boehnhardt, H.;  MPI for Solar System Research
Ageorges, N.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Bagnulo, S.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Barrera, L.;  Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias y de la Educacion, Santiago de Chile
Bonev, T.;  Astronomical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Hainaut, O.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Jehin, Emmanuel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique et traitement de l'image
Käufl, H. U.;  European Southern Observatory
Kerber, F.;  European Southern Observatory
Locurto, G.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Manfroid, Jean  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Marco, O.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Pantin, E.;  CEA Saclay
Pompei, E.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Rauer, H.;  Deutsche Agentur für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Saviane, I.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Selman, F.;  European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile
Sterken, C.;  Free University of Brussel
Tozzi, G. P.;  INAF Arcetri Observatory
Weiler, M.;  Deutsche Agentur für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Sterken, C.
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Language :
English
Title :
The Dusty View of DI from ESO Chile
Publication date :
2009
Event name :
Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event: Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength
Event organizer :
Käufl H.U. and Sterken C.
Event place :
Brussels, Belgium
Event date :
7-10 August 2006
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event: Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength
Editor :
Käufk, H. U.
Sterken, C.
Publisher :
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
ISBN/EAN :
978-3-540-76958-3
Collection name :
ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA
Pages :
147
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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