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JWST揭示木星不规则卫星的不同起源

JWST Reveals Varied Origins Between Jupiter's Irregular Satellites

University of Maryland(马里兰大学);Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Northern Arizona University(北亚利桑那大学)

Benjamin N. L. Sharkey, Andrew S. Rivkin, Richard J. Cartwright, Bryan J. Holler, Joshua P. Emery, Cristina Thomas

AI总结:

JWST观测八颗木星不规则卫星,发现Himalia家族含氨化硅酸盐及复杂CO2,揭示母体异质,部分卫星经历水蚀变,表明木星捕获了不同起源的天体。

摘要:

我们报告了使用JWST的NIRSpec仪器对八颗木星不规则卫星的观测结果:Himalia、Elara、Pasiphae、Sinope、Lysithea、Carme、Ananke和Themisto。不规则卫星家族被认为是通过碰撞形成的,其表面包含多种类似特洛伊小行星和C型小行星的物质。我们对Himalia卫星家族中最大的三个成员进行了采样,检测到复杂CO$_2$的存在以及一个独特的吸收带(约2.7-3.6 μm),该吸收带的特征与卫星大小相关。两颗最大的不规则卫星,即Himalia家族的Himalia和Elara,含有在陨石样本中未见的氨化层状硅酸盐。我们提出Himalia母体是异质的,由类似于含铵的谷神星(Ceres)小行星的物质形成。几颗小(直径约10公里)不规则卫星的颜色和吸收带与“红色”木星特洛伊小行星紧密吻合,表明这些成分在木星捕获后发生的碰撞产物中得以保留。我们首次在逆行卫星群中检测到水蚀变产物,发现Ananke的3微米带与C2球粒陨石中看到的层状硅酸盐高度匹配。值得注意的是,在逆行Pasiphae家族和顺行Himalia家族中都发现了具有类似特洛伊小行星Eurybates的OH吸收特征的物体,这使得此类材料与单一表面类型之间的简单关联变得复杂。不规则卫星似乎与一些经历过液态水蚀变的材料以及一些未经历过的材料一致。因此,木星可能捕获了由不同初始成分形成的天体,或经历了不同程度加热的天体,从而驱动了不同的蚀变过程。

英文摘要:

We report observations of eight Jovian irregular satellites with JWST's NIRSpec instrument: Himalia, Elara, Pasiphae, Sinope, Lysithea, Carme, Ananke, and Themisto. Irregular satellite families, which are presumed to have formed via collisions, contain various Trojan-like and C-type-asteroid-like surfaces. We sample the three largest members of the Himalia satellite family, detecting the presence of complexed CO$_2$ and a unique absorption band from $\sim2.7-3.6\ μm$ whose character correlates with satellite size. The two largest irregular satellites, Himalia family members Himalia and Elara, contain ammoniated phyllosilicates that are not seen in the meteorite inventory. We propose that the Himalia parent body was heterogeneous and formed with materials similar to Ceres-like ammonium-bearing asteroids. Several small ($D\sim 10km$) irregular satellites closely track the colors and absorption bands of ``red'' Jovian Trojans, demonstrating that these compositions are retained amongst the products of collisions that occurred after Jovian capture. We report the first detection of aqueous alteration products in the retrograde satellite swarm, finding Ananke's 3 micron band to closely match phyllosilicates seen in C2 chondrites. Notably, objects with OH absorption features similar to the Trojan asteroid Eurybates are found in both the retrograde Pasiphae family and the prograde Himalia family, confounding a simple link between such materials and a single surface type. The irregular satellites appear consistent with some materials that experienced alteration from liquid water and others that did not. Consequently, Jupiter may have captured bodies that formed from different initial compositions, or bodies that experienced different levels of heating, driving differential alteration processes.

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