3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
CHOH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array: Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CHOH/HCN Production Rate Ratio
Nathan X. Roth, Martin A. Cordiner, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan +15
We report the detection of methanol (CHOH) toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Atacama Compact Array of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) on UT 2…
astro-ph.EP2024
A patchy CO exosphere on Ganymede revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Olivier Poch, Françcois Leblanc +25
Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede has a tenuous exosphere produced by sputtering and possibly sublimation of water ice. To date, only atomic hydrogen and oxygen have been directly detect…
astro-ph.EP2021
A molecular wind blows out of the Kuiper belt
Quentin Kral, J. E. Pringle, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre +9
Gas has been detected in many exoplanetary systems (10 Myr), thought to be released in the destruction of volatile-rich planetesimals orbiting in exo-Kuiper belts. In this lette…