Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997icq....19...55g&link_type=abstract
International Comet Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 55 - 73
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Comets: Infrared Spectroscopy, Comets: Infrared Photometry, Comets: Infrared Polarimetry, Comets: Infrared Imaging
Scientific paper
Comets are the "Rosetta Stone" of the solar system; they contain all the refractory and volatile materials that were present in the primitive solar nebula, 4.7 billion years ago during the epoch of formation of the comet nuclei. That material, frozen in its original state for aeons, is released by solar heating to form the comae and tails of comets during the time around perihelion passage, where its composition can be studied by present-day astronomers. Because the thermal emission from comets is primarily emitted in the spectral region 2 - 30 μm, infrared observations of comets play an especially important role in efforts to reconstruct an accurate picture of the processes that led to the formation of the planets.
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