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Snodgrass, C.; A'Hearn, M. F.; Aceituno, F.; Afanasiev, V.; Bagnulo, S.; Bauer, J.; Bergond, G.; Besse, S.; Biver, N.; Bodewits, D.; Boehnhardt, H.; Bonev, B. P.; Borisov, G.; Carry, B.; Casanova, V.; Cochran, A.; Conn, B. C.; Davidsson, B.; Davies, J. K.; de León, J.; de Mooij, E.; de Val-Borro, M.; Delacruz, M.; DiSanti, M. A.; Drew, J. E.; Duffard, R.; Edberg, N. J. T.; Faggi, S.; Feaga, L.; Fitzsimmons, A.; Fujiwara, H.; Gibb, E. L.; Gillon, M.; Green, S. F.; Guijarro, A.; Guilbert-Lepoutre, A.; Gutiérrez, P. J.; Hadamcik, E.; Hainaut, O.; Haque, S.; Hedrosa, R.; Hines, D.; Hopp, U.; Hoyo, F.; Hutsemékers, D.; Hyland, M.; Ivanova, O.; Jehin, E.; Jones, G. H.; Keane, J. V.; Kelley, M. S. P.; Kiselev, N.; Kleyna, J.; Kluge, M.; Knight, M. M.; Kokotanekova, R.; Koschny, D.; Kramer, E. A.; López-Moreno, J. J.; Lacerda, P.; Lara, L. M.; Lasue, J.; Lehto, H. J.; Levasseur-Regourd, A. C.; Licandro, J.; Lin, Z. Y.; Lister, T.; Lowry, S. C.; Mainzer, A.; Manfroid, J.; Marchant, J.; McKay, A. J.; McNeill, A.; Meech, K. J.; Micheli, M.; Mohammed, I.; Monguió, M.; Moreno, F.; Muñoz, O.; Mumma, M. J.; Nikolov, P.; Opitom, C.; Ortiz, J. L.; Paganini, L.; Pajuelo, M.; Pozuelos, F. J.; Protopapa, S.; Pursimo, T.; Rajkumar, B.; Ramanjooloo, Y.; Ramos, E.; Ries, C.; Riffeser, A.; Rosenbush, V.; Rousselot, P.; Ryan, E. L.; Santos-Sanz, P.; Schleicher, D. G.; Schmidt, M.; Schulz, R. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Volume 375, Issue 2097, id.20160249
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2017
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Description
We present a summary of the campaign of remote observations that
supported the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. Telescopes across
the globe (and in space) followed comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from
before Rosetta's arrival until nearly the end of the mission in
September 2016. These provided essential data for mission planning,
large-scale context information for the coma and tails beyond the
spacecraft and a way to directly compare 67P with other comets. The
observations revealed 67P to be a relatively `well-behaved' comet,
typical of Jupiter family comets and with activity patterns that repeat
from orbit to orbit. Comparison between this large collection of
telescopic observations and the in situ results from Rosetta will allow
us to better understand comet coma chemistry and structure. This work is
just beginning as the mission ends-in this paper, we present a summary
of the ground-based observations and early results, and point to many
questions that will be addressed in future studies.
This article is part of the themed issue 'Cometary science after
Rosetta'.
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