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arXiv 2008.03576astro-ph.EP
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彗星中CN基的首次原位探测和分布式源的证据

First in-situ detection of the CN radical in comets and evidence for a distributed source

Nora Hänni, Kathrin Altwegg, Boris Pestoni, Martin Rubin, Isaac Schroeder, Markus Schuhmann, Susanne Wampfler

摘要:

虽然关于彗星中氰基(CN)的起源的争论已经持续了几十年,但迄今为止还没有得出明确的答案。氯化萘以前只能远距离研究,由于空间信息非常有限,这大大阻碍了限制其起源的努力。由于欧洲航天局的罗塞塔航天器围绕67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko彗星运行了两年,我们首次能够以高空间和时间分辨率调查彗星周围的CN。在罗塞塔的轨道器模块上,高分辨率双聚焦质谱仪DFMS,ROSINA仪器套件的一部分,分析了彗星内部彗发中的中性挥发物(包括HCN和CN自由基),在整个两年阶段和不同的彗星中心距离。通过对整个任务数据的全面分析,得出了彗星彗发中CN自由基的丰度。2015年2月的一次近距离飞越事件的数据表明,67 P/丘留莫夫-格拉西缅科彗星的CN原子团是分布式起源的。

英文摘要:

Although the debate regarding the origin of the cyano (CN) radical in comets has been ongoing for many decades, it has yielded no definitive answer to date. CN could previously only be studied remotely, strongly hampering efforts to constrain its origin because of very limited spatial information. Thanks to the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which orbited comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two years, we can investigate, for the first time, CN around a comet at high spatial and temporal resolution. On board Rosetta's orbiter module, the high-resolution double-focusing mass spectrometer DFMS, part of the ROSINA instrument suite, analyzed the neutral volatiles (including HCN and the CN radical) in the inner coma of the comet throughout that whole two-year phase and at variable cometocentric distances. From a thorough analysis of the full-mission data, the abundance of CN radicals in the cometary coma has been derived. Data from a close flyby event in February 2015 indicate a distributed origin for the CN radical in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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