著者

新中 善晴 亀田 真吾 笠原 慧 河北 秀世 小林 正規 船瀬 龍 吉川 一朗 ジェライント ジョーンズ スノッドグラス コリン

出版者

日本地球惑星科学連合

雑誌

日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

巻号頁・発行日

2019-03-14

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Comet Interceptor' is a proposed mission to the recent European Space Agency (ESA) call for F-class ('fast') missions. This is one of six mission concepts invited to submit detailed proposals. A decision is expected until late July 2019. The purpus of our misson is to characterise a dynamically-new comet or interstellar object like 'Oumuamua, which are visiting the inner Solar System for the first time, including its surface composition, shape, and structure, the composition of its gas coma for the first time. Our mission will launch to the Sun-Earth L2 point, where it will be stayed in a stable L2 halo orbit for a period of up to 2-3 years, until a suitable opportunity for a flyby mission to a dynamically new comet presents itself. Suitable targets will be comets that will have a perihelion distance closer than ~1.2 au and an ecliptic plane crossing time and location reachable with ~1.5 km/s delta-v from L2. Once a target is found, which expected to be within a few years based on predictions for comet discovery rates with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the spacecraft will depart on an intercept trajectory. Before the flyby, the main spacecraft will resease at least two sub-spacecraft, parallel paths through the coma and past the nucleus to be sampled. This mission will give us a 3D snapshot of the cometary nucleus at the time of the flyby, testing spatial coma inhomogeneity, interaction with the solar wind on many scales, and monitoring of Lyα coma. This mission will be a unique measurement that was not possible with previous missions, in addition to the fact that we will target a dynamicall new comet, which will allow interesting comparisons to be made with the results from Rosetta target comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It is expected that the proposed mission includes contributions from Japan as well as ESA member countries.

著者

笠原 慧

出版者

独立行政法人宇宙航空研究開発機構

雑誌

若手研究(B)

巻号頁・発行日

2010

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人工衛星による粒子の直接観測は、宇宙における粒子加速機構の解明に不可欠である。本課題ではこれまで技術的に困難であった中間エネルギーイオン観測実現に向け、キーテクノロジーのひとつである質量分析器の開発を行った。数値シミュレーションを行って構造を決定し,それに基づいて製作した分析の性能を,実験室で確かめる事ができた.