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most citedInfrared detection of aliphatic organics on a cometary nucleus

64 citations · 132 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

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.EP20229 cited

Water Ortho-to-Para ratio in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Y. -C. Cheng, D. Bockelée-Morvan, M. Roos-Serote +9

Abundance ratios of the nuclear-spin isomers of HO and NH have been measured in about two dozen comets, with a mean value corresponding to a nuclear-spin temperature of $\s…

astro-ph.EP2021

The science case for spacecraft exploration of the Uranian satellites: Candidate ocean worlds in an ice giant system

Richard J. Cartwright, Chloe B. Beddingfield, Tom A. Nordheim +15

The 27 satellites of Uranus are enigmatic, with dark surfaces coated by material that could be rich in organics. Voyager 2 imaged the southern hemispheres of Uranus' five largest '…

astro-ph.EP202013 cited

Bayesian analysis of Juno/JIRAM's NIR observations of Europa

Ishan Mishra, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan Lunine +4

Juno spacecraft's spectrometer JIRAM recently observed the moon Europa in the 2-5 μm wavelength region. Here we present analysis of the average spectrum of a set of observations ne…

astro-ph.EP202064 cited

Infrared detection of aliphatic organics on a cometary nucleus

A. Raponi, M. Ciarniello, F. Capaccioni +28

The ESA Rosetta mission has acquired unprecedented measurements of comet 67/P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P) nucleus surface, whose composition, as determined by in situ and…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Science Case for Spacecraft Exploration of the Uranian Satellites

Richard J. Cartwright, Chloe B. Beddingfield, Tom Nordheim +14

The five classical Uranian moons are possible ocean worlds that exhibit bizarre geologic landforms, hinting at recent surface-interior communication. However, Uranus' classical moo…