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most citedCarbon chain anions and the growth of complex organic molecules in Titan's ionosphere

54 citations · 411 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 45 cited

Jupiter Science Enabled by ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

Leigh N. Fletcher, Thibault Cavalié, Davide Grassi +47

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will provide a detailed investigation of the Jovian system in the 2030s, combining a suite of state-of-the-art instruments with an orbital…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 2 cited

Past and Future Comet Missions

C. Snodgrass, L. Feaga, G. H. Jones +2

We review the history of spacecraft encounters with comets, concentrating on those that took place in the recent past, since the publication of the Comets II book. This includes th…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft fly-by: The case of ESA's Comet Interceptor mission

Raphael Marschall, Vladimir Zakharov, Cecilia Tubiana +12

We present a statistical approach to assess the dust environment for a yet unknown comet (or when its parameters are known only with large uncertainty). This is of particular impor…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 24 cited

ESA F-Class Comet Interceptor: Trajectory Design to Intercept a Yet-to-be-discovered Comet

Joan Pau Sánchez, David Morante, Pablo Hermosin +8

Comet Interceptor (Comet-I) was selected in June 2019 as the first ESA F-Class mission. In 2029+, Comet-I will hitch a ride to a Sun-Earth L2 quasi-halo orbit, as a co-passenger of…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 1 cited

Polarimetric analysis of STEREO observations of sungrazing Kreutz comet C/2010 E6 (STEREO)

Rok Nežič, Stefano Bagnulo, Geraint H. Jones +2

Twin STEREO spacecraft pre-perihelion photometric and polarimetric observations of the sungrazing Kreutz comet C/2010 E6 (STEREO) in March 2010 at heliocentric distances $3-28~R_{\…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 17 cited

Heavy Positive Ion Groups in Titan's Ionosphere from Cassini Plasma Spectrometer IBS Observations

Richard P. Haythornthwaite, Andrew J. Coates, Geraint H. Jones +4

Titan's ionosphere contains a plethora of hydrocarbons and nitrile cations and anions as measured by the Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer and Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) onboar…