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astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

Solar System Science with ESA Euclid

Benoit Carry

The ESA Euclid mission has been designed to map the geometry of the dark Universe. Scheduled for launch in 2020, it will conduct a six-years visible and NIR imaging and spectroscop…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 26 cited

A better characterization of the chemical composition of exoplanets atmospheres with ARIEL

Olivia Venot, Benjamin Drummond, Yamila Miguel +3

Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet more than twenty years ago, we have discovered nearly four thousand planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Current observatio…

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★ 32 cited

Checking the Compatibility of the Cold Kuiper Belt with a Planetary Instability Migration Model

Rodney Gomes, David Nesvorny, Alessandro Morbidelli +2

The origin of the orbital structure of the cold component of the Kuiper belt is still a hot subject of investigation. Several features of the solar system suggest that the giant pl…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 20 cited

Size-dependent modification of asteroid family Yarkovsky V-shapes

Bryce T. Bolin, Alessandro Morbidelli, Kevin J. Walsh

The thermal properties of the surfaces of asteroids determine the magnitude of the drift rate cause by the Yarkovsky force. In the general case of Main Belt asteroids, the Yarkovsk…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 42 cited

Ejecta cloud from the AIDA space project kinetic impact on the secondary of a binary asteroid: II. fates and evolutionary dependencies

Yang Yu, Patrick Michel

This paper presents a quantitative study of the evolution of the ejecta cloud released from a hypervelocity impact on a binary asteroid. We performed numerical simulations of the p…