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most citedThe activity of Main Belt comets

29 citations · 73 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.EP2023

Ceres as seen by VIR/ Dawn: spectral modeling and laboratory measurements suggest altered and pristine silicates within carbon chemistry

Andrea Raponi, Marco Ferrari, Maria Cristina De Sanctis +3

The NASA/Dawn mission has acquired an unprecedented amount of data from the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, providing a thorough characterization of its surface composition. The…

physics.space-ph2021★ 13 cited

Optical tweezers in a dusty universe

P. Polimeno, A. Magazzu, M. A. Iati +17

Optical tweezers are powerful tools based on focused laser beams. They are able to trap, manipulate and investigate a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic particles in differen…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

The surface of (4) Vesta in visible light as seen by Dawn/VIR

B. Rousseau, M. C. De Sanctis, A. Raponi +9

We analyzed the surface of Vesta at visible wavelengths, using the data of the Visible and InfraRed mapping spectrometer (VIR) on board the Dawn spacecraft. We mapped the variation…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 4 cited

Correction of the VIR-visible data set from the Dawn mission at Vesta

B. Rousseau, M. C De Sanctis, A. Raponi +7

This work describes the correction method applied to the dataset acquired at the asteroid (4) Vesta by the visible channel of the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer. The ris…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 12 cited

The surface of (1) Ceres in visible light as seen by Dawn/VIR

B. Rousseau, M. C. De Sanctis, A. Raponi +9

We study the surface of Ceres at visible wavelengths, as observed by the Visible and InfraRed mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard the Dawn spacecraft, and analyze the variations of…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Correction of the VIR-Visible data set from the Dawn mission

B. Rousseau, A. Raponi, M. Ciarniello +6

Data acquired at Ceres by the visible channel of the Visible and InfraRed mapping spectrometer (VIR) on board the NASA Dawn spacecraft are affected by the temperatures of both the…