The Chemical Composition of 9P/Tempel 1 from Radio Observations
ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA(2009)
Abstract
Tit 2005, as part of a world-wide multi-wavelength investigation of comet 9P/Tempel I in support to the Deep Impact mission, we conducted radio spectroscopic observations, with the Nancay radio telescope, the Odin satellite, the CSO 10-m and the IRAM 30-m telescopes. We report here out, results concerning the chemical composition of the comet. The relative abundances of the detected species (H2O, CH3OH, H2S, HCN) or their tipper limits (CO, H2CO, CS) are comparable to the mean values observed in other comets. No significant changes of the outgassing rates (except possibly for CH3OH) or of the molecular abundances were observed following the impact.
MoreTranslated text
Key words
chemical composition,relative abundance,radio telescope
AI Read Science
Must-Reading Tree
Example
![](https://originalfileserver.aminer.cn/sys/aminer/pubs/mrt_preview.jpeg)
Generate MRT to find the research sequence of this paper
Chat Paper
Summary is being generated by the instructions you defined