The chemical composition of 9P/tempel 1 from radio observations
Paper in proceedings, 2009

In 2005, as part of a world-wide multi-wavelength investigation of comet 9P/Tempel 1 in support to the Deep Impact mission, we conducted radio spectroscopic observations with the Nançay radio telescope, the Odin satellite, the CSO 10-m and the IRAM 30-m telescopes. We report here our results concerning the chemical composition of the comet. The relative abundances of the detected species (H2O, CH3OH, H2S, HCN) or their upper limits (CO, H2CO, CS) are comparable to the mean values observed in other comets. No significant changes of the outgassing rates (except possibly for CH3OH) or of the molecular abundances were observed following the impact.

Author

J. Crovisier

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

N. Biver

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

D. Bockelée-Morvan

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

J. Boissier

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

P. Colom

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

A. Lecacheux

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

R. Moreno

GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

G. Paubert

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

D. C. Lis

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

M. Sumner

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

U. Frisk

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)

Åke Hjalmarson

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

Other publications Research

Michael Olberg

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

Other publications Research

Anders Winnberg

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

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H.-G. Florén

Stockholm Observatory

A. Sandqvist

Stockholm Observatory

S. Kwok

Academia Sinica

University of Calgary

ESO Astrophysics Symposia

1431-2433 (ISSN) 1611-6143 (eISSN)

Vol. 2009 243-248

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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1007/978-3-540-76959-0_32

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9783540769583

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