MISC

2008年4月

Mid-infrared spectra of cometary dust: the evasion of its silicate mineralogy

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
  • H. Kimura
  • ,
  • T. Chigai
  • ,
  • T. Yamamoto

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開始ページ
305
終了ページ
307
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361:20078778
出版者・発行元
EDP SCIENCES S A

Infrared spectra of dust in cometary comae provide a way to identify its silicate constituents, and this is crucial for correctly understanding the condition under which our planetary system is formed. Recent studies assign a newly detected peak at a wavelength of 9.3 mu m to pyroxenes and regard them as the most abundant silicate minerals in comets. Here we dispense with this pyroxene hypothesis to numerically reproduce the infrared features of cometary dust in the framework of our interstellar dust models. Presolar interstellar dust in a comet is modeled as fluffy aggregates consisting of submicrometer-sized organic grains with an amorphous-silicate core that undergoes nonthermal crystallization in a coma. We assert that forsterite (Mg2SiO4) is the carrier of all the observed features, including the 9.3 mu m peak and that the major phase of iron is sulfides rather than iron-rich silicates.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078778
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000259042200029&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361:20078778
  • ISSN : 0004-6361
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000259042200029

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