Literature - Comet Interceptor
2025:
Lacerda, P., Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Kokotanekova, R., Inno, L., Epifani, E. M., & Snodgrass, C. 2025. Secular brightness curves of 272 comets, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 697, A210. 10.1051/0004-6361/202453565.
Skog, K., Kohout, T., Kašpárek, T., Penttilä, A., Wolfmayr, M., & Praks, J. 2025. Lossless Hyperspectral Image Compression in Comet Interceptor and Hera Missions with Restricted Bandwith, Remote Sensing, 17, 899. 10.3390/rs17050899.
Inno, L., et al. 2025. How much earlier would LSST have discovered currently known long-period comets?, Icarus, 429, 116443. 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116443.
Moreno, F. 2025. COMetary dust TAIL Simulator (COMTAILS): A computer code to generate comet dust tail brightness images, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695, A263. 10.1051/0004-6361/202453458.
De Keyser, J., et al. 2025. Optimal choice of closest approach distance for a comet flyby: Application to the Comet Interceptor mission, Planetary and Space Science, 256, 106032. 10.1016/j.pss.2024.106032.
2024:
Rebelo, M., & Sánchez, J. P. 2024. Optimizing launch window opportunities for ESA's comet Interceptor mission using primer vector theory, Acta Astronautica, 219, 340. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.03.006.
Holt, C. E., et al. 2024. Brightness Behavior of Distant Oort Cloud Comets, The Planetary Science Journal, 5, 273. 10.3847/PSJ/ad8e38.
De Keyser, J., et al. 2024. In situ plasma and neutral gas observation time windows during a comet flyby: Application to the Comet Interceptor mission, Planetary and Space Science, 244, 105878. 10.1016/j.pss.2024.105878.
Mengali, G., Bassetto, M., & Quarta, A. A. 2024. Solar Sail Optimal Performance in Heliocentric Nodal Flyby Missions, Aerospace, 11, 427. 10.3390/aerospace11060427.
Edberg, N. J. T., et al. 2024. Scale size of cometary bow shocks, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 682, A51. 10.1051/0004-6361/202346566.
Jones, G. H., et al. 2024. The Comet Interceptor Mission, Space Science Reviews, 220, 9. 10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0.
Bergman, S., Kasahara, S., & Stenberg Wieser, G. 2024. Spacecraft potential effects on low-energy ion measurements to be made by probe B1 of Comet Interceptor, RAS Techniques and Instruments, 3, 333. 10.1093/rasti/rzae021.
2023:
Bergman, S., Miyake, Y., Kasahara, S., Johansson, F. L., & Henri, P. 2023. Spacecraft Charging Simulations of Probe B1 of Comet Interceptor during the Cometary Flyby, The Astrophysical Journal, 959, 138. 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0ce5.
Vigren, E., Eriksson, A. I., Edberg, N. J. T., & Snodgrass, C. 2023. A potential aid in the target selection for the comet interceptor mission, Planetary and Space Science, 237, 105765. 10.1016/j.pss.2023.105765.
Costa, H. R., da Silva Pais Cabral, F., Villa, V. M. M., & Gil, P. J. S. 2023. The Comet Interceptor Mission-Making a case for Solar Electric Propulsion, Acta Astronautica, 210, 237. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.04.050.
Schwamb, M. E., et al. 2023. Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 266, 22. 10.3847/1538-4365/acc173.
Fulle, M., Bockelée-Morvan, D., & La Forgia, F. 2023. A possible selection criterion of the target of Comet Interceptor mission, Advances in Space Research, 71, 4424. 10.1016/j.asr.2022.12.047.
Della Corte, V., et al. 2023. DISC - the dust impact sensor and counter on-board Comet Interceptor: Characterization of the dust coma of a dynamically new comet, Advances in Space Research, 71, 3457. 10.1016/j.asr.2023.01.049.
Bucciantini, L., et al. 2023. Instrumentation for Ionized Space Environments: New High Time Resolution Instrumental Modes of Mutual Impedance Experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 128, e2022JA031055. 10.1029/2022JA031055.
2022:
Goetz, C., et al. 2022. Cometary plasma science, Experimental Astronomy, 54, 1129. 10.1007/s10686-021-09783-z.
Tesh, S. 2022. Ask me anything: Nicholas Attree, Physics World, 35, 48. 10.1088/2058-7058/35/09/30.
Capelo, H. L., et al. 2022. TEMPus VoLA: The timed Epstein multi-pressure vessel at low accelerations, Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 104502. 10.1063/5.0087030.
Marschall, R., et al. 2022. Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft flyby: The case of ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 666, A151. 10.1051/0004-6361/202243648.
Machuca, P., Ozaki, N., Sánchez, J. P., & Felicetti, L. 2022. Dust impact and attitude analysis for JAXA's probe on the Comet Interceptor mission, Advances in Space Research, 70, 1189. 10.1016/j.asr.2022.05.070.
Fulle, M., et al. 2022. Comets beyond 4 au: How pristine are Oort nuclei?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 5377. 10.1093/mnras/stac1218.
Edberg, N. J. T., Johansson, F. L., Eriksson, A. I., Vigren, E., Henri, P., & De Keyser, J. 2022. Radial distribution of plasma at comet 67P. Implications for cometary flyby missions, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 663, A42. 10.1051/0004-6361/202243776.
Haslebacher, N., Gerig, S.-B., Thomas, N., Marschall, R., Zakharov, V., & Tubiana, C. 2022. A numerical model of dust particle impacts during a cometary encounter with application to ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, Acta Astronautica, 195, 243. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.02.023.
Kareta, T., Reddy, V., Sanchez, J. A., & Harris, W. M. 2022. Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of Low-activity Comet P/2016 BA<SUB>14</SUB> during Its 2016 Close Approach, The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 105. 10.3847/PSJ/ac63cb.
Hoover, D. J., Seligman, D. Z., & Payne, M. J. 2022. The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and Accessible for In Situ Rendezvous with Various Mission Designs, The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 71. 10.3847/PSJ/ac58fe.
Preda, V., Hyslop, A., & Bennani, S. 2022. Optimal science-time reorientation policy for the Comet Interceptor flyby via sequential convex programming, CEAS Space Journal, 14, 173. 10.1007/s12567-021-00368-2.
2021:
Gutiérrez, P. J., Lara, L. M., & Moreno, F. 2021. The dust and gas environment of comet 8P/Tuttle, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 1719. 10.1093/mnras/stab2609.
Oshima, K. 2021. Capture and escape analyses on planar retrograde periodic orbit around the Earth, Advances in Space Research, 68, 3891. 10.1016/j.asr.2021.07.012.
Sánchez, J. P., et al. 2021. ESA F-Class Comet Interceptor: Trajectory design to intercept a yet-to-be-discovered comet, Acta Astronautica, 188, 265. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.07.014.
Lehtinen, T., Granvik, M., Bellome, A., & Sánchez, J.-P. 2021. Icarus: In-situ monitoring of the surface degradation on a near-Sun asteroid, Acta Astronautica, 186, 98. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.05.028.
Goetz, C., Gunell, H., Johansson, F., LLera, K., Nilsson, H., Glassmeier, K.-H., & Taylor, M. G. G. T. 2021. Warm protons at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - implications for the infant bow shock, Annales Geophysicae, 39, 379. 10.5194/angeo-39-379-2021.
Zakharov, V. V., Rodionov, A. V., Fulle, M., Ivanovski, S. L., Bykov, N. Y., Della Corte, V., & Rotundi, A. 2021. Practical relations for assessments of the gas coma parameters, Icarus, 354, 114091. 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114091.
2019:
Snodgrass, C., & Jones, G. H. 2019. The European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor lies in wait, Nature Communications, 10, 5418. 10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1.
Gater, W. 2019. Comet mission given green light by European Space Agency, Physics World, 32, 13. 10.1088/2058-7058/32/8/22.