2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Considerations on the process of target selection for the Comet Interceptor mission
C. Snodgrass, E. Mazzotta Epifani, C. Tubiana +27
Comet Interceptor is an ESA science mission with payload contributions from ESA Member States and with an international participation by JAXA. It is the first mission that is being…
astro-ph.EP2025
Secular brightness curves of 272 comets
P. Lacerda, A. Guilbert-Lepoutre, R . Kokotanekova +3
We investigate the brightening behavior of long-period comets as a function of dynamical age, defined by the original reciprocal semimajor axis, . Our goal is to test long-s…