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20182021
most citedA Search for Water Vapor Plumes on Europa using SOFIA

19 citations · 22 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.IM2021

Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: Instrumentation and Encounter Concept of Operations

Catherine B. Olkin, Harold F. Levison, Michael Vincent +19

The Lucy Mission accomplishes its science during a series of five flyby encounters with seven Trojan asteroid targets. This mission architecture drives a concept of operations desi…

astro-ph.EP20212 cited

Rapidly Varying Anisotropic Methanol (CHOH) Production in the Inner Coma of Comet 46P/Wirtanen as Revealed by the ALMA Atacama Compact Array

Nathan X. Roth, Stefanie N. Milam, Martin A. Cordiner +13

We report the detection of CHOH emission in comet 46P/Wirtanen on UT 2018 December 8 and 9 using the Atacama Compact Array (ACA), part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillim…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Case for Non-Cryogenic Comet Nucleus Sample Return

Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, Alexander G. Hayes, Scott Sandford +22

Comets hold answers to mysteries of the Solar System by recording presolar history, the initial states of planet formation and prebiotic organics and volatiles to the early Earth.…

astro-ph.IM2020

Cryogenic Cometary Sample Return

Andrew J. Westphal, Larry R. Nittler, Rhonda Stroud +11

Comets likely formed in the outer regions of the protosolar nebula where they incorporated and preserved primitive presolar materials, volatiles resident in the outer disk, and mor…

astro-ph.IM20201 cited

The Crucial Role of Ground- and Space-Based Remote Sensing Studies of Cometary Volatiles in the Next Decade (2023-2032)

Nathan X. Roth, Dennis Bodewits, Boncho Bonev +15

The study of comets affords a unique window into the birth, infancy, and subsequent history of the solar system. There is strong evidence that comets incorporated pristine interste…

astro-ph.EP2019

The Peculiar Volatile Composition of CO-Dominated Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

Adam McKay, Michael DiSanti, Michael Kelley +14

Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS) has a peculiar volatile composition, with CO being the dominant volatile as opposed to HO and one of the largest N/CO ratios ever observed in a…