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astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Diurnal temperature variations and migrating thermal tides in the Martian lower atmosphere observed by the Emirates Mars InfraRed Spectrometer

Siteng Fan, François Forget, Michael D. Smith +12

The Martian atmosphere experiences large diurnal variations due to the ~24.6 h planetary rotation and its low heat capacity. Understanding such variations on a planetary scale is l…

astro-ph.EP2023

Insight from laboratory measurements on dust in debris discs

Julien Milli, Olivier Poch, Jean-Baptiste Renard +11

Extreme adaptive optics instruments have revealed exquisite details on debris discs, allowing to extract the optical properties of the dust particles such as the phase function, th…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 5 cited

Interaction between the turbulent solar wind and a planetary magnetosphere: a 2D comet example

Behar Etienne, Henri Pierre

Using the newly developed code \emph{Menura}, we present the first global picture of the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a planetary obstacle in our solar system, na…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 5 cited

Detection and characterization of wind-blown charged sand grains on Titan with the DraGMet/EFIELD experiment on Dragonfly

Audrey Chatain, Alice Le Gall, Jean-Jacques Berthelier +5

The EFIELD instrument is part of the geophysics and meteorology sensor package DraGMet on the Dragonfly mission, which will explore the surface of Titan in the mid-2030s. EFIELD co…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 6 cited

On the stability of low-mass planets with supercritical hydrospheres

Hugo Vivien, Artyom Aguichine, Olivier Mousis +2

Short-period and low-mass water-rich planets are subject to strong irradiation from their host star, resulting in hydrospheres in supercritical state. In this context, we explore t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 17 cited

Determining the beaming of Io decametric emissions : a remote diagnostic to probe the Io-Jupiter interaction

L. Lamy, L. Colomban, P. Zarka +8

We investigate the beaming of 11 Io-Jupiter decametric (Io-DAM) emissions observed by Juno/Waves, the Nan\c cay Decameter Array and NenuFAR. Using an up-to-date magnetic field mode…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 130 cited

Investigating Mercury's Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission

A. Milillo, M. Fujimoto, G. Murakami +76

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric dyna…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 5 cited

Observing Jupiter's radio emissions using multiple LOFAR stations: a first case study of the Io-decametric emission using the Irish IE613, French FR606 and German DE604 stations

Corentin K. Louis, Caitriona M. Jackman, Jean-Mathias Griessmeier +11

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an international radio telescope array, consisting of 38 stations in the Netherlands and 14 international stations spread over Europe. Here we pr…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Menura: a code for simulating the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and solar system bodies

Etienne Behar, Shahab Fatemi, Pierre Henri +1

Despite the close relationship between planetary science and plasma physics, few advanced numerical tools allow to bridge the two topics. The code Menura proposes a breakthrough to…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 11 cited

Encounter of Parker Solar Probe and a Comet-like Object During Their Perihelia: Model Predictions and Measurements

Jiansen He, Bo Cui, Liping Yang +15

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) aims at exploring the nascent solar wind close to the Sun. Meanwhile, PSP is also expected to encounter small objects like comets and asteroids. In this wo…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 27 cited

Zodiacal light observations and its link with cosmic dust: a review

Jeremie Lasue, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jean-Baptiste Renard

The zodiacal light is a night-glow mostly visible along the plane of the ecliptic. It represents the background radiation associated with solar light scattered by the tenuous flatt…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 11 cited

Linking studies of tiny meteoroids, zodiacal dust, cometary dust and circumstellar disks

Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Clément Baruteau, Jérémie Lasue +2

Tiny meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere and inducing meteor showers have long been thought to originate partly from cometary dust. Together with other dust particles, they…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

The evolution of the electron number density in the coma of comet 67P at the location of Rosetta from 2015 November through 2016 March

Erik Vigren, Niklas J. T. Edberg, Anders I. Eriksson +6

A comet ionospheric model assuming the plasma to move radially outward with the same bulk speed as the neutral gas and not being subject to severe reduction through dissociative re…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

Cometary Plasma Science -- A White Paper in response to the Voyage 2050 Call by the European Space Agency

Charlotte Götz, Herber Gunell, Martin Volwerk +27

Comets hold the key to the understanding of our solar system, its formation and its evolution, and to the fundamental plasma processes at work both in it and beyond it. A comet nuc…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

AMBITION -- Comet Nucleus Cryogenic Sample Return (White paper for ESA's Voyage 2050 programme)

D. Bockelée-Morvan, G. Filacchione, K. Altwegg +27

This white paper proposes that AMBITION, a Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission, be a cornerstone of ESA's Voyage 2050 programme. We summarise some of the most important questions s…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

Interpretation through experimental simulations of phase functions revealed by Rosetta in 67P dust coma

Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Edith Hadamcik +3

Context: The dust-brightness phase curves that have been measured by the OSIRIS cameras on board the Rosetta spacecraft within the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) pre…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 20 cited

Identification of organic molecules with a laboratory prototype based on the Laser Ablation-CosmOrbitrap

L. Selliez, C. Briois, N. Carrasco +18

In the Solar System, extra-terrestrial organic molecules have been found on cometary primitive objects, on Titan and Enceladus icy moons and on Mars. Identification could be achiev…

astro-ph.EP2018

VOEvent for Solar and Planetary Sciences

Baptiste Cecconi, Pierre Le Sidaner, Lukasz Tomasik +5

With its Planetary Space Weather Service (PSWS), the Europlanet-H2020 Research Insfrastructure (EPN2020RI) project is proposing a compelling set of databases and tools to that prov…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 52 cited

Studying the solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array

R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo, K. J. Lee +77

Pulsar-timing analyses are sensitive to errors in the solar-system ephemerides (SSEs) that timing models utilise to estimate the location of the solar-system barycentre, the quasi-…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 24 cited

Supermassive Hot Jupiters Provide More Favourable Conditions for the Generation of Radio Emission via the Cyclotron Maser Instability - A Case Study Based on Tau Bootis b

C. Weber, N. V. Erkaev, V. A. Ivanov +5

We investigate under which conditions supermassive hot Jupiters can sustain source regions for radio emission, and whether this emission could propagate to an observer outside the…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 50 cited

An Orbitrap-based laser desorption/ablation mass spectrometer designed for spaceflight

Ricardo Arevalo, Laura Selliez, Christelle Briois +8

RATIONALE: The investigation of cryogenic planetary environments as potential harbors for extant life and/or contemporary sites of organic synthesis represents an emerging focal po…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 74 cited

Krypton isotopes and noble gas abundances in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Martin Rubin, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger +24

The ROSINA mass spectrometer DFMS on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected the major isotopes of the noble gases argon, krypton, and xenon in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gera…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 28 cited

Cold electrons at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Ilka A. D. Engelhardt, Anders I. Eriksson, Erik Vigren +4

The electron temperature of the plasma is one important aspect of the environment. Electrons created by photoionization or impact ionization of atmospheric gas have energies …

astro-ph.EP2018★ 33 cited

Solar wind dynamics around a comet - A 2D semi-analytical kinetic model

E. Behar, B. Tabone, M. Saillenfest +5

We aim at analytically modelling the solar wind proton trajectories during their interaction with a partially ionised cometary atmosphere, not in terms of bulk properties of the fl…