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S. A. Stern D. C. Slater J. Scherrer J. Stone M. Versteeg M. F. A’hearn J. L. Bertaux P. D. Feldman M. C. Festou Joel Wm. Parker O. H. W. Siegmund 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):507-527
We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. It will be the first UV spectrograph to study a comet at close range. It is designed to obtain spatially-resolved spectra of Rosetta mission targets in the 700–2050 Å spectral band with a spectral resolution between 8 Å and 12 Å for extended sources that fill its ~0.05^ × 6.0^ field-of-view. ALICE employs an off-axis telescope feeding a 0.15-m normal incidence Rowland circle spectrograph with a toroidal concave holographic reflection grating. The microchannel plate detector utilizes dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI) and employs a two-dimensional delay-line readout array. The instrument is controlled by an internal microprocessor. During the prime Rosetta mission, ALICE will characterize comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's coma, its nucleus, and nucleus/coma coupling; during cruise to the comet, ALICE will make observations of the mission's two asteroid flyby targets and of Mars, its moons, and of Earth's moon. ALICE has already successfully completed the in-flight commissioning phase and is operating well in flight. It has been characterized in flight with stellar flux calibrations, observations of the Moon during the first Earth fly-by, and observations of comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) in 2004 and comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the 2005 Deep Impact comet-collision observing campaign. 相似文献
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In this review we present the main results obtained by the ISO satellite on the abundance and spatial distribution of water
vapor in the direction of molecular clouds, evolved stars, galaxies, and in the bodies of our Solar System. We also discuss
the modeling of H2O and the difficulties found in the interpretation of the data, the need of collisional rates and the perspectives that future
high angular and high spectral resolution observations of H2O with the Herschel Space Observatory will open. 相似文献
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Donald L. Hampton James W. Baer Martin A. Huisjen Chris C. Varner Alan Delamere Dennis D. Wellnitz Michael F. A’Hearn Kenneth P. Klaasen 《Space Science Reviews》2005,117(1-2):43-93
A suite of three optical instruments has been developed to observe Comet 9P/Tempel 1, the impact of a dedicated impactor spacecraft,
and the resulting crater formation for the Deep Impact mission. The high-resolution instrument (HRI) consists of an f/35 telescope with 10.5 m focal length, and a combined filtered CCD camera and IR spectrometer. The medium-resolution instrument
(MRI) consists of an f/17.5 telescope with a 2.1 m focal length feeding a filtered CCD camera. The HRI and MRI are mounted on an instrument platform
on the flyby spacecraft, along with the spacecraft star trackers and inertial reference unit. The third instrument is a simple
unfiltered CCD camera with the same telescope as MRI, mounted within the impactor spacecraft. All three instruments use a
Fairchild split-frame-transfer CCD with 1,024× 1,024 active pixels. The IR spectrometer is a two-prism (CaF2 and ZnSe) imaging spectrometer imaged on a Rockwell HAWAII-1R HgCdTe MWIR array. The CCDs and IR FPA are read out and digitized
to 14 bits by a set of dedicated instrument electronics, one set per instrument. Each electronics box is controlled by a radiation-hard
TSC695F microprocessor. Software running on the microprocessor executes imaging commands from a sequence engine on the spacecraft.
Commands and telemetry are transmitted via a MIL-STD-1553 interface, while image data are transmitted to the spacecraft via a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) interface standard. The instruments are used as the science instruments and are
used for the optical navigation of both spacecraft. This paper presents an overview of the instrument suite designs, functionality,
calibration and operational considerations. 相似文献
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Floris van der Tak 《Advances in Space Research (includes Cospar's Information Bulletin, Space Research Today)》2012
This paper contains a summary of the results from the first years of observations with the HIFI instrument onboard ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The paper starts by outlining the goals and possibilities of far-infrared and submillimeter astronomy, the limitations of the Earth’s atmosphere, and the scientific scope of the Herschel-HIFI mission. The presentation of science results from the mission follows the life cycle of gas in galaxies as grouped into five themes: Structure of the interstellar medium, First steps in interstellar chemistry, Formation of stars and planets, Solar system results and Evolved stellar envelopes. The HIFI observations paint a picture where the interstellar medium in galaxies has a mixed, rather than a layered structure; the same conclusion may hold for protoplanetary disks. In addition, the HIFI data show that exchange of matter between comets and asteroids with planets and moons plays a large role. The paper concludes with an outlook to future instrumentation in the far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength ranges. 相似文献
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ISO performed a large variety of observing programmes on comets, asteroids and zodiacal light – covering about 1% of the archived
observations – with a surprisingly rewarding scientific return. Outstanding results were related to the exceptionally bright
comet Hale–Bopp and to ISO's capability to study in detail the water spectrum in a direct way. But many other results were
broadly recognised: Discovery of new molecules in comets, the studies of crystalline silicates, the work on asteroid surface
mineralogy, results from thermophysical studies of asteroids, a new determination of the asteroid number density in the main-belt
and last but not least, the investigations on the spatial and spectral features of the zodiacal light. 相似文献
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G. Klingelhöfer J. Brückner C. D’uston R. Gellert R. Rieder 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):383-396
The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) is a small instrument to determine the elemental composition of a given sample.
For the ESA Rosetta mission, the periodical comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was selected as the target comet, where the lander
PHILAE (after landing) will carry out in-situ observations. One of the instruments onboard is the APXS to make measurements
on the landing site. The APXS science goal is to provide basic compositional data of the comet surface. As comets consist
of a mixture of ice and dust, the dust component can be characterized and compared with known meteoritic compositions. Various
element ratios can be used to evaluate whether chemical fractionations occurred in cometary material by comparing them with
known chondritic material. To enable observations of the local environment, APXS measurements of several spots on the surface
and one spot as function of temperature can be made. Repetitive measurements as function of heliocentric distance can elucidate
thermal processes at work. By measuring samples that were obtained by drilling subsurface material can be analyzed. The accumulated
APXS data can be used to shed light on state, evolution, and origin of 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko. 相似文献
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Silicates in comets appear to be a mix of high-temperature crystalline enstatite and forsterite plus glassy or amorphous grains
that formed at lower temperatures. The mineral identifications from the 10 and 20 μm cometary spectra are consistent with
the composition of anhydrous chondritic aggregate IDPs. The origin of the cometary silicates remains puzzling. While the evidence
from the IDPs points to a pre-solar origin of both crystalline and glassy components, the signatures of crystalline silicates
appear in the spectra of young stellar objects only at a late evolutionary stage, when comets are the likely source of the
dust.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The Neutral Mass Spectrometer on the Giotto spacecraft established that H2O is the dominant species in Comet Halley's volatiles and determined the abundance of more than 10 parent species. The instrument
discovered strong extended H2CO and CO sources in the coma of Comet Halley. Polymerized H2CO associated with the cometary dust and evaporating slowly as the monomer is most likely the extended H2CO source. Photodissociation of the H2CO into CO fully accounts for the extended CO source.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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MIRO: Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
S. Gulkis M. Frerking J. Crovisier G. Beaudin P. Hartogh P. Encrenaz T. Koch C. Kahn Y. Salinas R. Nowicki R. Irigoyen M. Janssen P. Stek M. Hofstadter M. Allen C. Backus L. Kamp C. Jarchow E. Steinmetz A. Deschamps J. Krieg M. Gheudin D. Bockelée-Morvan N. Biver T. Encrenaz D. Despois W. Ip E. Lellouch I. Mann D. Muhleman H. Rauer P. Schloerb T. Spilker 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):561-597
The European Space Agency Rosetta Spacecraft, launched on March 2, 2004 toward Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, carries a
relatively small and lightweight millimeter-submillimeter spectrometer instrument, the first of its kind launched into deep
space. The instrument will be used to study the evolution of outgassing water and other molecules from the target comet as
a function of heliocentric distance. During flybys of the asteroids (2867) Steins and (21) Lutetia in 2008 and 2010 respectively,
the instrument will measure thermal emission and search for water vapor in the vicinity of these asteroids.
The instrument, named MIRO (Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter), consists of a 30-cm diameter, offset parabolic
reflector telescope followed by two heterodyne receivers. Center-band operating frequencies of the receivers are near 190
GHz (1.6 mm) and 562 GHz (0.5 mm). Broadband continuum channels are implemented in both frequency bands for the measurement
of near surface temperatures and temperature gradients in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the asteroids (2867) Steins
and (21) Lutetia. A 4096 channel CTS (Chirp Transform Spectrometer) spectrometer having 180 MHz total bandwidth and 44 kHz
resolution is, in addition to the continuum channel, connected to the submillimeter receiver. The submillimeter radiometer/spectrometer
is fixed tuned to measure four volatile species – CO, CH3OH, NH3 and three, oxygen-related isotopologues of water, H2
16O, H2
17O and H2
18O. The basic quantities measured with the MIRO instrument are surface temperature, gas production rates and relative abundances,
and velocity and excitation temperature of each species, along with their spatial and temporal variability. This paper provides
a short discussion of the scientific objectives of the investigation, and a detailed discussion of the MIRO instrument system. 相似文献
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Tilman Spohn Karsten Seiferlin Axel Hagermann Jörg Knollenberg Andrew J. Ball Marek Banaszkiewicz Johannes Benkhoff Stanislaw Gadomski Wojciech Gregorczyk Jerzy Grygorczuk Marek Hlond Günter Kargl Ekkehard Kührt Norbert Kömle Jacek Krasowski Wojciech Marczewski John C. Zarnecki 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):339-362
MUPUS, the multi purpose sensor package onboard the Rosetta lander Philae, will measure the energy balance and the physical parameters in the near-surface layers – up to about 30 cm depth- of the
nucleus of Rosetta’s target comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Moreover it will monitor changes in these parameters over time as
the comet approaches the sun. Among the parameters studied are the density, the porosity, cohesion, the thermal diffusivity
and conductivity, and temperature. The data should increase our knowledge of how comets work, and how the coma gases form.
The data may also be used to constrain the microstructure of the nucleus material. Changes with time of physical properties
will reveal timescales and possibly the nature of processes that modify the material close to the surface. Thereby, the data
will indicate how pristine cometary matter sampled and analysed by other experiments on Philae really is. 相似文献