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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2018

The oxygen isotopic composition (18O/16O) in the dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by COSIMA on-board Rosetta

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The oxygen isotopic ratio 18O/16O has been measured in cometary gas for a wide variety of comets, but the only measurements in cometary dust were performed by the Stardust cometary sample return mission. Most such measurements find a value of the ratio that is consistent with Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW) within errors. In this work we present the result of a measurement, using the COSIMA (the COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser) instrument on the Rosetta orbiter, of the oxygen isotopic ratio in dust from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Measuring the 18O/16O ratio with COSIMA is challenging for a number of reasons, but it is possible with a reasonable degree of precision. We find a result of 2.00 × 10−3 ± 1.2 × 10−4, which is consistent within errors with VSMOW.
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insu-02002394 , version 1 (08-03-2019)

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John Paquette, C. Engrand, J Hilchenbach, Nicolas Fray, J Stenzel, et al.. The oxygen isotopic composition (18O/16O) in the dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by COSIMA on-board Rosetta. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 477 (3), pp.3836-3844. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty560⟩. ⟨insu-02002394⟩
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