1. Changes in the Physical Environment of the Inner Coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with Decreasing Heliocentric Distance
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Barbieri, C., Güttler, C., Kramm, J.-R., Bertaux, J.-L., Debei, S., Snodgrass, C., Sierks, H., Rodrigo, R., Groussin, O., De Cecco, M., Ip, W.-H., Fornasier, S., Fulle, M., Keller, H. U., Kührt, E., Gicquel, A., Lin (林忠義), Z.-Y., Shi, X., Davidsson, B., Rickman, H., Gutiérrez, P. J., Jorda, L., Barucci, M. A., La Forgia, F., Knollenberg, J., Tubiana, C., Küppers, M., López-Moreno, J. J., Hviid, S. F., Naletto, G., Da Deppo, V., Toth, I., Cremonese, G., Lazzarin, M., Thomas, Nicolas, Kovacs, G., Boudreault, S., Lamy, P. L., Bertini, I., Vincent, J.-B., Bodewits, D., Koschny, D., A’Hearn, M. F., Lara, L. M., Marzari, F., and Oklay, N.
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13. Climate action ,530 Physics ,520 Astronomy ,10. No inequality ,620 Engineering - Abstract
The Wide Angle Camera of the OSIRIS instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft is equipped with several narrowband filters that are centered on the emission lines and bands of various fragment species. These are used to determine the evolution of the production and spatial distribution of the gas in the inner coma of comet 67P with time and heliocentric distance, here between 2.6 – 1.3 AU pre-perihelion.