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Monitoring 67P/C-G coma dust environment from 3.6 AU in-bound to the Sun to 2 AU out-bound
No full textGIADA onboard Rosetta characterising comet 67/PChuryumov-Gerasimenko dust environment inbound to and outbound from perihelion.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Simulation of the dust flux on the ROSETTA probe during the orbiting phase around comet 46P/Wirtanen
Full text linkWe present a probabilistic model of the dust mass, flux and fluence which will be collected by the ROSETTA probe while orbiting around comet 46P/Wirtanen. The dust environment of the target comet is simulated according to the most recent data available in the literature. Best fits of the DIDSY-GIOTTO data collected during the fly-by of comet 1P/Halley have shown that the probabilistic properties of dust ejection from the inner coma are crucial (Fulle et al. 1995). Therefore, we pay particular attention to the dust ejection velocity, which is assumed to have a wide distribution around the most probable values, and the dust ejection distribution, which is assumed to have a strong anisotropy peaked towards the sun. To compute the impact velocity in the probe reference frame, the rigorous keplerian orbit of each grain is considered taking into account aberrations due to the probe orbital velocity. We analyse the dependence of the results on the probe orbit parameters, such as true anomaly, probe-nucleus distance, orbit node and inclination. Computations are performed for the six main directions of the probe reference frame and for different values of the acceptance angle. The only way to collect direct grains is to point towards the nucleus; the mass collected in this direction is almost independent of the acceptance angle and of the time evolution of dust loss rate. A strong dependence of the collected dust mass on node and inclination is evidenced. By assuming an acceptance angle of 40°, the flux of reflected grains received in the two directions perpendicular to the probe orbit is higher than that in the nucleus direction, for 42% of randomly oriented probe orbits. The value increases up to 56% when the acceptance angle in the directions perpendicular to the probe orbit is increased up to 80°. The dust ejection anisotropy produces a strong dependence of the fluxes on the probe anomaly. For reflected grains, the fluences show relevant depletions at the largest masses, due to dust orbital effects, and the collected masses strongly depend on the acceptance angle and on the time evolution of the dust loss rate. The total dust fluxes are evaluated by assuming a half sphere field of view (corresponding to an acceptance angle of 180°)
The phase function and density of the dust observed at comet 67P /Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Full text linkComet P/grigg-Skjellerup: Ground-based observations after the encounter with the Giotto spacecraft
No full textAfter the encounter with the Giotto spacecraft, the comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup was observed with the 2.2 m ESO telescope. Imaging in the V and R bands and infrared photometry with the J and H filters were performed. From the radial enhancement of the images we derived that the R frame mainly concerns the dust tail of the comet. Thus we applied the inverse numerical method of dust tail analysis in order to estimate the following cometary-grain parameters: ejection velocity, anisotropy of the emission, size distribution and loss rate. This from the observations back in time to the Giotto encounter. From infrared observation we could calculate the J and H magnitudes and the colour index J-H=0.4 consistent with previous measurements of the comet. © 1993 Società a Italiana di Fisica
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