The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

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作者
Snodgrass, C. [1 ]
Jones, G. H. [2 ]
Boehnhardt, H. [3 ]
Gibbings, A. [4 ]
Homeister, M. [4 ]
Andre, N. [5 ]
Beck, P. [6 ]
Bentley, M. S. [7 ]
Bertini, I. [8 ]
Bowles, N. [9 ]
Capria, M. T. [10 ]
Carr, C. [11 ]
Ceriotti, M. [12 ]
Coates, A. J. [2 ]
Della Corte, V. [10 ,13 ]
Hanna, K. L. Donaldson [9 ]
Fitzsimmons, A. [14 ]
Gutierrez, P. J. [15 ]
Hainaut, O. R. [16 ]
Herique, A. [6 ]
Hilchenbach, M. [3 ]
Hsieh, H. H. [17 ,18 ]
Jehin, E. [19 ]
Karatekin, O. [20 ]
Kofman, W. [6 ,21 ]
Lara, L. M. [15 ]
Laudan, K. [4 ]
Licandro, J. [22 ]
Lowry, S. C. [23 ]
Marzari, F. [24 ]
Masters, A. [11 ]
Meech, K. J. [25 ]
Moreno, F. [15 ]
Morse, A. [1 ]
Orosei, R. [26 ]
Pack, A. [27 ]
Plettemeier, D. [28 ]
Prialnik, D. [29 ]
Rotundi, A. [10 ,13 ]
Rubin, M. [30 ]
Sanchez, J. P. [31 ]
Sheridan, S. [1 ]
Trieloff, M. [32 ]
Winterboer, A. [4 ]
机构
[1] Open Univ, Planetary & Space Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England
[2] Univ Coll London, Mullard Space Sci Lab, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, Surrey, England
[3] Max Planck Inst Sonnensyst Forsch, Justus von Liebig Weg 3, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany
[4] OHB Syst AG, Univ Allee 27-29, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[5] Univ Paul Sabatier Toulouse, Inst Rech Astrophys & Planetol, CNRS, 9 Ave Colonel Roche,BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France
[6] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France
[7] Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Schmiedlstr 6, A-8042 Graz, Austria
[8] Univ Padua, Dept Phys & Astron Galileo Galilei, Vic Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padua, Italy
[9] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Clarendon Lab, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[10] Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali INAF, Via Fosso Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[11] Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England
[12] Univ Glasgow, Sch Engn, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[13] Univ Napoli Parthenope, Dip Sci & Tecnol, CDN, IC4, I-80143 Naples, Italy
[14] Queens Univ Belfast, Astrophys Res Ctr, Sch Math & Phys, Belfast BT7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland
[15] CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Glorieta Astron S-N, E-18008 Granada, Spain
[16] European Southern Observ, Karl Schwarzschild Str 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[17] Planetary Sci Inst, 1700 East Ft Lowell Rd,Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 86719 USA
[18] Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, POB 23-141, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
[19] Univ Liege, Inst Astrophys & Geophys, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
[20] Royal Observ Belgium, Ave Circulaire 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
[21] Polish Acad Sci, Space Res Ctr, F-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[22] Inst Astrofis Canarias, C Via Lactea S-N, San Cristobal la Laguna 38205, Spain
[23] Univ Kent, Ctr Astrophys & Planetary Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Canterbury CT2 7NH, Kent, England
[24] Univ Padua, Dept Phys, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[25] Inst Astron, 2680 Woodlawn Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[26] Ist Nazl Astrofis, Ist Radioastron, Via Piero Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
[27] Georg August Univ, Geowissensch Zentrum, Goldschmidtstr 1, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany
[28] Tech Univ Dresden, Helmholtzstr 10, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
[29] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Geosci, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[30] Univ Bern, Inst Phys, Sidlerstr 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[31] Cranfield Univ, Space Res Grp, Ctr Autonomous & Cyber Phys Syst, Cranfield MK43 0AL, Beds, England
[32] Heidelberg Univ, Klaus Tschira Lab Kosmochem, Inst Geowissensch, Neuenheimer Feld 234-236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
Comets; Asteroids; Main Belt Comets; Spacecraft missions; GRAIN IMPACT ANALYZER; SOLAR-SYSTEM; MASS-SPECTROMETER; DUST ACCUMULATOR; ONBOARD ROSETTA; IN-SITU; PARTICLES; ORIGIN; GIADA; ION;
D O I
10.1016/j.asr.2017.09.011
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which may represent the remnants of the population which supplied the early Earth with water. Castalia will perform the first exploration of this population by characterising 133P in detail, solving the puzzle of the MBC's activity, and making the first in situ measurements of water in the asteroid belt. In many ways a successor to ESA's highly successful Rosetta mission, Castalia will allow direct comparison between very different classes of comet, including measuring critical isotope ratios, plasma and dust properties. It will also feature the first radar system to visit a minor body, mapping the ice in the interior. Castalia was proposed, in slightly different versions, to the ESA M4 and M5 calls within the Cosmic Vision programme. We describe the science motivation for the mission, the measurements required to achieve the scientific goals, and the proposed instrument payload and spacecraft to achieve these. (C) 2017 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码:1947 / 1976
页数:30
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