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most citedAmmonium salts are a reservoir of nitrogen on a cometary nucleus and possibly on some asteroids

180 citations · 567 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Identification of Ammonium Salts on Comet 67P/C-G Surface from Infrared VIRTIS/Rosetta Data Based on Laboratory Experiments. Implications and Perspectives

Olivier Poch, Istiqomah Istiqomah, Eric Quirico +29

The nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko exhibits a broad spectral reflectance feature around 3.2 m, which is omnipresent in all spectra of the surface, and whose attribut…

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…

astro-ph.HE2022

Jet Gravitational Waves

Tsvi Piran

The acceleration of a jet to relativistic velocities produces a unique memory type gravitational waves (GW) signal: {\it Jet-GW}. I discuss here resent result concerning properties…

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

A probabilistic approach to determination of Ceres' average surface composition from Dawn VIR and GRaND data

H. Kurokawa, B. L. Ehlmann, M. C. De Sanctis +6

The Visible-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIR) on board the Dawn spacecraft revealed that aqueous secondary minerals -- Mg-phyllosilicates, NH4-bearing phases, and Mg/Ca carbonate…