Science Working Team Meeting #2 - Comet Interceptor SWT
dates and location
The Comet Interceptor SWT Meeting #2 will take place on 15-16 March 2023 at ESTEC.
registration
Registration for participation in the meeting is required. The registration form can be found on the left-hand side as a subitem to this SWT #2 page. The deadline for registration is 3rd March for participation in person and 10th March for online participation. When registering, please also indicate if you would like to contribute a science presentation and, if applicable, provide a title.
Programme
15 March 2023: Room Einstein
09:30 Meeting of the SWT Executive on formation of the Working Groups
Working Group Meetings:
10:15 SWT Working group kick-off (L. Colangeli, M. Küppers, N. Rando)
- Welcome, Introduction
- Organization of Working Groups, Introduction of WG chairs
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Kick-off Meetings of individual working groups
- Comet Environment Working Group (Room: Einstein)
- Target Identification Working Group (Room: CF008)
- Science Operations Working Group (Room: CF106)
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Welcome, Introduction (M. Küppers, H. Kawakita)
14:10 ESA Project Update (N. Rando)
14:30 JAXA Project Update (R. Funase)
14:45 Instrument Lead Scientist update (emphasis on science aspects, Instrument Lead Scientists, 10 min per instrument, 20 min for DFP)
- Science activities within the instrument team
- Calibration aspects (synthesis of needs, approach, planning)
16:25 Coffee break
16:45 Report from the CISDC (J. de Keyser)
17:00 Reports from WG kickoff meetings (WG chairs, 10 minutes each)
17:30 Reference operations Plan for Comet Interceptor, status and next steps (M. Küppers, C. Corral van Damme)
18:00 Icebreaker (ESTEC Wintergarden South)
16 March 2023: Room Einstein
Open SWT Meeting (Part 2):
09:30 Backup target comets (M. Kidger, followed by Discussion)
10:00 Possibilities and limitations of scaling flyby distance to Comet Activity (C. Corral van Damme, M. Küppers, followed by Discussion)
10:30 C/2022 E3: lessons for Comet Interceptor target selection (M. Kidger)
10:45 Target Selection Process (first discussion, ESA introduction)
11:15 Coffee break
Science Presentations
11:45 Synthesis and characterization of dust/ice cometary dust analogues: supporting the interpretation of EnVisS photo-polarimetric observations (J. C. Gómez Martín)
12:00 Laboratory Simulations of landslides on a young comet (K. Kossacki)
12:15 Scale size of cometary bow shocks and implications for the flyby timeline (N. Edberg)
12:30 AOB, date of next meeting
13:00 Adjourn
Room: CA005
14:00 Meeting of the SWT Executive