Subsurface properties and early activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6220, 2015, Pages

  Gulkis, Samuel ^a   Allen, Mark ^a   Von Allmen, Paul ^a   Beaudin, Gerard ^b   Biver, Nicolas ^c   Bockelée Morvan, Dominique ^c   Choukroun, Mathieu ^a   Crovisier, Jacques ^c   Davidsson, Björn J R ^d   Encrenaz, Pierre ^a,b   Encrenaz, Therese ^a,c   Frerking, Margaret ^a   Hartogh, Paul ^e   Hofstadter, Mark ^a   Ip, Wing Huen ^f   Janssen, Michael ^a   Jarchow, Christopher ^e   Keihm, Stephen ^a   Lee, Seungwon ^a   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^c   Leyrat, Cedric ^c   Rezac, Ladislav ^e   Schloerb, F Peter ^a,g   Spilker, Thomas ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

HEAT TRANSFER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SUBLIMATION; WAVELENGTH;

67P CHURYUMOV GERASIMENKO; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GAMMA CAMERA; HEAT; MICROWAVE INSTRUMEN OF THE ROSETTA ORBITER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUBSURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84922037255     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0709     Document Type: Article

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