Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
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致密卵石和星际彗星 2I/鲍里索夫挥发物的演化
DOI:
10.1038/s41550-021-01336-w
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
14.1
通讯作者:
Villard, Eric
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作者:
Yang, Bin;Li, Aigen;Cordiner, Martin A.;Chang, Chin-Shin;Hainaut, Olivier R.;Williams, Jonathan P.;Meech, Karen J.;Keane, Jacqueline V.;Villard, Eric
The interstellar traveller, 2I/Borisov, is the first clearly active extrasolar comet ever detected in our Solar System. We obtained high-resolution interferometric observations of 2I/Borisov with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and multi-colour optical observations with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to gain a comprehensive understanding of the dust properties of this comet. We found that the dust coma of 2I/Borisov consists of compact ‘pebbles’ of radii exceeding ~1 mm, suggesting that the dust particles have experienced compaction through mutual impacts during the bouncing collision phase in the protoplanetary disk. We derived a dust mass-loss rate of ≳200 kg s−1and a dust-to-gas ratio ≳3. Our long-term monitoring of 2I/Borisov with the VLT indicates a steady dust mass-loss with no significant dust fragmentation and/or sublimation occurring in the coma. We also detected emissions from carbon monoxide (CO) gas with ALMA and derived the gas production rate ofQ(CO) = (3.3 ± 0.8) × 1026s−1. We found that the CO/H2O mixing ratio of 2I/Borisov changed drastically before and after perihelion, indicating the heterogeneity of the cometary nucleus, with components formed at different locations beyond the volatile snow-line with different chemical abundances. Our observations suggest that 2I/Borisov’s home system, much like our own system, experienced efficient radial mixing from the innermost parts of its protoplanetary disk to beyond the frost line of CO.
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DOI:
10.3847/1538-3881/ab659b
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
The Astronomical Journal
影响因子:
--
作者:
Q. Ye 叶;M. Kelley;B. Bolin;D. Bodewits;D. Farnocchia;F. Masci;K. Meech;M. Micheli;R. Weryk;E. Bellm;E. Christensen;R. Dekany;A. Delacroix;M. Graham;S. Kulkarni;R. Laher;B. Rusholme;Roger M. Smith
通讯作者:
Roger M. Smith
影响因子:
14.1
作者:
M. Fulle
通讯作者:
M. Fulle
影响因子:
6.5
作者:
S. Lorek;B. Gundlach;P. Lacerda;J. Blum
通讯作者:
J. Blum
影响因子:
6.5
作者:
T. Mannel;Mark Bentley;P. Boakes;H. Jeszenszky;Pascale Ehrenfreund;Cécile Engrand;Christian Koeberl;A. Levasseur;J. Romstedt;R. Schmied;K. Torkar;Iris Weber
通讯作者:
Iris Weber
影响因子:
0.9
作者:
Cooper, JF;Christian, ER;Wang, C
通讯作者:
Wang, C