Realistic SL9 Impact, Plume, and Splashback Models

AST 0307638 Harrington该项目将开发一系列三维流体动力学和化学模型，用于Shoemaker-Levy 9（SL 9）事件的撞击、羽流喷出和羽流飞行/飞溅阶段。这些模型将平流示踪粒子，其温度（T）和压力（p）的历史将驱动化学和颗粒模型。化学和颗粒结果将重新插入飞溅模型，以计算逼真的光变曲线和撞击现场图像。将使用这些模型进行几项调查，这些模型将在小型集群超级计算机上运行。该模型需要全面解释令人困惑的SL 9数据，并将产生有关木星大气和彗星成分的基本信息。这些模型将测试哈勃太空望远镜看到的膨胀环的理论。这项工作具有非常广泛的影响。这是第一个观测约束的彗星撞击所有阶段的3D辐射流体动力学化学模型。这些模型和模型网格将与行星数据系统一起存档，以便迅速用于规划下一次撞击的观测，无论是10年还是500年后。 这些模型将为卡西尼号的使命做出预测。公众对影响的兴趣很高，因此结果将出现在科学文献和科普杂志上。

AST 0307638HarringtonThis project will develop a linked series of 3D hydrodynamic and chemical models for the impact, plume blowout, and plume flight/splash phases of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) events. These models will advect tracer particles, whose temperature (T) and pressure (p) histories will drive chemical and grain models. Chemical and grain results will be re-inserted into the splash model to calculate realistic light curves and impact-site images. Several investigations will be carried out with the models, which will run on a small cluster supercomputer. The model is required for full interpretation of the puzzling SL9 data, and will yield basic information about Jupiter's atmosphere and comet composition. The models will test theories for the expanding rings seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. This work has a very broad impact. It is the first observationally-constrained 3D radiative-hydrodynamic chemical model of all phases of a cometary impact. The models and model grids will be archived with the Planetary Data System so that they will be quickly available for use in planning observations of the next impact, be it 10 or 500 years from now. The models will makepredictions for the Cassini mission. Public interest in impacts is high, so results will appear in both the scientific literature and in popular science magazines.***