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The global meter-level shape model of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 607, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731798

Keywords

methods: data analysis; techniques: image processing; comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko; planets and satellites: surfaces

Funding

  1. European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme [686709]
  2. national funding agency of Germany (DLR)
  3. national funding agency of France (CNES)
  4. national funding agency of Italy (ASI)
  5. national funding agency of Spain (MEC)
  6. national funding agency of Sweden (SNSB)
  7. ESA Technical Directorate

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We performed a stereo-photogrammetric (SPG) analysis of more than 1500 Rosetta/OSIRIS NAC images of comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko (67P). The images with pixel scales in the range 0.2-3.0 m/pixel were acquired between August 2014 and February 2016. We finally derived a global high-resolution 3D description of 67P's surface, the SPG SHAP7 shape model. It consists of about 44 million facets (1-1.5 m horizontal sampling) and a typical vertical accuracy at the decimeter scale. Although some images were taken after perihelion, the SPG SHAP7 shape model can be considered a pre-perihelion description and replaces the previous SPG SHAP4S shape model. From the new shape model, some measures for 67P with very low 3 sigma uncertainties can be retrieved: 18.56 km(3) +/- 0 : 02 km(3) for the volume and 537.8 kg/m(3) +/- 0.7 kg/m(3) for the mean density assuming a mass value of 9 : 982 +/- 10(12) kg.

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