Strategy for infrared photometry of comets with ISO

Details Strategy for infrared photometry of comets with ISO Strategy for infrared photometry of comets with ISO

Jul 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994metic..29q.536s&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 29, no. 4, p. 536

Physics

Chemical Composition, Comet Nuclei, Cometary Atmospheres, Infrared Photometry, Mass Distribution, Infrared Spectra, Particle Density (Concentration), Spatial Distribution, Temperature Profiles

Scientific paper

The launch of the ISO (Infrared Satellite Observatory) by the European Space Agency is scheduled for autumn 1995. Photometry and spectrophotometry observing programs of comets in the wavelength range 2.5-200 microns for the onboard spectrophotometer ISOPHOT is now under final preparation. Technical details for preparing propasals are given. Phenomena in comets to be studied are surface properties of bare cometary nuclei at large heliocentric distances, onset of coma activity, and coma dust and gas emission (in inner solar system). Dust production, dust/gas mass ratio, dust distribution in coma, and their temporal variability are important for understanding the physical processes on nuclei, and spectrophotometry in the range of 2.5-12 microns could provide us with data of the chemical composition of cometary dust. Several active comets expected for the 18-month lifetime of ISO in 1995-1997 were selected for the ISO Central Program according to their orbital and physical parameters: P/Schwassman-Wachmann 1, P/Encke, P/d'Arrest, P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, P/Kopff, P/IRAS, P/Wirtanen, P/Wild 2, P/Grigg-Skjellerup, P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, P/Machholz, and (2060) Chiron. Four of them match well various constraints put on the observations by the technical arrangement of the satellite and instrument. A simple four-parameter model (size, albedo, rotation, optical thickness)was developed to estimate the temperatures and thermal fluxes of both solid nuclei and dust coma.

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