TY - JOUR
T1 - Local Manifestations of Cometary Activity
AU - Vincent, Jean Baptiste
AU - Farnham, Tony
AU - Kührt, Ekkehard
AU - Skorov, Yuri
AU - Marschall, Raphael
AU - Oklay, Nilda
AU - El-Maarry, Mohamed Ramy
AU - Keller, Horst Uwe
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 686709 (MiARD). This work was supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 16.0008-2. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official view of the Swiss Government. This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Comets are made of volatile and refractory material and naturally experience various degrees of sublimation as they orbit around the Sun. This gas release, accompanied by dust, represents what is traditionally described as activity. Although the basic principles are well established, most details remain elusive, especially regarding the mechanisms by which dust is detached from the surface and subsequently accelerated by the gas flows surrounding the nucleus. During its 2 years rendez-vous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA’s Rosetta has observed cometary activity with unprecedented details, in both the inbound and outbound legs of the comet’s orbit. This trove of data provides a solid ground on which new models of activity can be built. In this chapter, we review how activity manifests at close distance from the surface, establish a nomenclature for the different types of observed features, discuss how activity is at the same time transforming and being shaped by the topography, and finally address several potential mechanisms.
AB - Comets are made of volatile and refractory material and naturally experience various degrees of sublimation as they orbit around the Sun. This gas release, accompanied by dust, represents what is traditionally described as activity. Although the basic principles are well established, most details remain elusive, especially regarding the mechanisms by which dust is detached from the surface and subsequently accelerated by the gas flows surrounding the nucleus. During its 2 years rendez-vous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA’s Rosetta has observed cometary activity with unprecedented details, in both the inbound and outbound legs of the comet’s orbit. This trove of data provides a solid ground on which new models of activity can be built. In this chapter, we review how activity manifests at close distance from the surface, establish a nomenclature for the different types of observed features, discuss how activity is at the same time transforming and being shaped by the topography, and finally address several potential mechanisms.
KW - Activity
KW - Comets
KW - Rosetta
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85065192733
U2 - 10.1007/s11214-019-0596-8
DO - 10.1007/s11214-019-0596-8
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85065192733
SN - 0038-6308
VL - 215
JO - Space Science Reviews
JF - Space Science Reviews
IS - 4
M1 - 30
ER -