Measurements of the near-nucleus coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph on Rosetta
@article{Feldman2015MeasurementsOT, title={Measurements of the near-nucleus coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph on Rosetta}, author={Paul D. Feldman and Michael F. A’Hearn and J L Bertaux and Lori M. Feaga and Joel Wm. Parker and Eric Schindhelm and Andrew J. Steffl and S. Alan Stern and H. Weaver and Holger Sierks and Jean-Baptiste Vincent Jhu and Umd and Latmos and SwRI and Jhu-Apl and Mpis}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2015}, volume={583} }
The Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph onboard Rosetta is designed to observe emissions from various atomic and molecular species from within the coma of comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko and to determine their spatial distribution and evolution with time and heliocentric distance.
Methods. Following orbit insertion in August 2014, Alice made observations of the inner coma above the limbs of the nucleus of the comet from cometocentric distances varying between 10 and 80 km. Depending on the…
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