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The Effect of Cosmi...
The Effect of Cosmic Rays on Cometary Nuclei. I. Dose Deposition
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Gronoff, Guillaume (author)
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Maggiolo, Romain (author)
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Cessateur, Gaël (author)
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Moore, W. B. (author)
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Airapetian, Vladimir (author)
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De Keyser, Johan (author)
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Dhooghe, Frederick (author)
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Gibbons, Andrew (author)
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- Gunell, Herbert (author)
- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy(BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium,Space Physics
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Mertens, C. J. (author)
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Rubin, Martin (author)
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Hosseini, S. (author)
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- 2020-02-14
- 2020
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In: Astrophysical Journal. - : Institute of Physics (IOP). - 0004-637X .- 1538-4357. ; 890:1
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- Comets are small bodies thought to contain the most pristine material in the solar system. However, since their formation ≈4.5 Gy ago, they have been altered by different processes. While not exposed to much electromagnetic radiation, they experience intense particle radiation. Galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles have a broad spectrum of energies and interact with the cometary surface and subsurface; they are the main source of space weathering for a comet in the Kuiper Belt or in the Oort Cloud, and also affect the ice prior to the comet agglomeration. While low-energy particles interact only with the cometary surface, the most energetic ones deposit a significant amount of energy down to tens of meters. This interaction can modify the isotopic ratios in cometary ices and create secondary compounds through radiolysis, such as O2 and H2O2 (Paper II). In this paper, we model the energy deposition of energetic particles as a function of depth using a Geant4 application modified to account for the isotope creation process. We quantify the energy deposited in cometary nucleus by galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles. The consequences of the energy deposition on the isotopic and chemical composition of cometary ices and their implication on the interpretation of cometary observations, notably of 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft, will be discussed in Paper II.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
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- Comets
- Galactic cosmic rays
- Cosmic rays
- Solarenergetic particles
- Pre-biotic astrochemistry
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Maggiolo, Romain
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Cessateur, Gaël
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Moore, W. B.
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Airapetian, Vlad ...
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De Keyser, Johan
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Dhooghe, Frederi ...
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Gibbons, Andrew
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Gunell, Herbert
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Mertens, C. J.
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Rubin, Martin
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