Debris disks: structure, composition, and variability

AM Hughes, G Duchêne… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Debris disks are tenuous, dust-dominated disks commonly observed around stars over a
wide range of ages. Those around main sequence stars are analogous to the Solar System's …

Cometary dust

AC Levasseur-Regourd, J Agarwal, H Cottin… - Space science …, 2018 - Springer
This review presents our understanding of cometary dust at the end of 2017. For decades,
insight about the dust ejected by nuclei of comets had stemmed from remote observations …

Synthesis of the morphological description of cometary dust at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

C Güttler, T Mannel, A Rotundi, S Merouane… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Before Rosetta, the space missions Giotto and Stardust shaped our view on cometary dust,
supported by plentiful data from Earth based observations and interplanetary dust particles …

Polarimetry with the Gemini planet imager: methods, performance at first light, and the circumstellar ring around HR 4796A

MD Perrin, G Duchene, M Millar-Blanchaer… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the polarimetry mode of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI),
which uses a new integral field polarimetry architecture to provide high contrast linear …

The composition of comets

AL Cochran, AC Levasseur-Regourd, M Cordiner… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
This paper is the result of the International Cometary Workshop, held in Toulouse, France in
April 2014, where the participants came together to assess our knowledge of comets prior to …

A uniform analysis of debris discs with the Gemini Planet Imager II: constraints on dust density distribution using empirically informed scattering phase functions

J Hom, J Patience, CH Chen, G Duchêne… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Spatially resolved images of debris discs are necessary to determine disc morphological
properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) thatantifies the brightness of scattered …

Amorphous silicates in the matrix of Semarkona: The first evidence for the localized preservation of pristine matrix materials in the most unequilibrated ordinary …

E Dobrică, AJ Brearley - Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We have investigated the fine‐grained matrix of the least‐altered unequilibrated ordinary
chondrite (UOC) Semarkona (LL3. 00) using different electron microscope techniques …

Cometary dust properties retrieved from polarization observations: application to C/1995 O1 Hale–Bopp and 1P/Halley

J Lasue, AC Levasseur-Regourd, E Hadamcik… - Icarus, 2009 - Elsevier
The analysis of the polarized light scattered by cometary dust particles provides information
on the physical properties of the solid component of cometary comae for C/1995 O1 Hale …

Imaging polarimetry and photometry of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

E Chornaya, E Zubko, I Luk'yanyk, A Kochergin… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
We report results of polarimetric observations of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner made at phase
angles, α≈ 76–78°, between 10 and 17 of September 2018, and compare them with …

Overview of the MetSpec project-Artificial meteors in ground testing

J Tóth, P Matlovič, S Loehle, J Vaubaillon… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
We provide an overview of the MetSpec project, which aims to connect meteorite ablation
laboratory experiments with meteor spectral observations in the atmosphere aiming at the …