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most citedThe Castalia Mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

36 citations

5 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

The AGILE space mission: an Italian success story and its legacy for future space astronomy

Carlotta Pittori, Marco Tavani, Andrea Argan +10

AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero) has been a unique and hugely successful mission of Italian Space Agency (ASI), built and operated with the programmatic and techni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 13 cited

Modeling of electrochemical oxide film growth -- a PDM refinement

Ingmar Bösing, Fabio La Mantia, Jorg Thöming

The Point Defect Model (PDM) is known for over 40 years and has brought deeper insight to the understanding of passivity. During the last decades it has seen several changes and re…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 9 cited

Modeling of electrochemical oxide film growth -- impact of band-to-band tunneling

Ingmar Bösing, Jorg Thöming, Fabio La Mantia

The Point Defect Model (PDM) describes the corrosion resistance properties of oxide films based on interfacial reactions and defect transport, which are affected by the electric fi…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 24 cited

CASTAway: An Asteroid Main Belt Tour and Survey

N. E. Bowles, C. Snodgrass, A Gibbings +42

CASTAway is a mission concept to explore our Solar System's main asteroid belt. Asteroids and comets provide a window into the formation and evolution of our Solar System and the c…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

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

C. Snodgrass, G. H. Jones, H. Boehnhardt +41

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 th…