日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会

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[P-PS03] 太陽系小天体研究:現状の理解と将来の展望

2018年5月23日(水) 10:45 〜 12:15 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 7ホール)

コンビーナ:石黒 正晃(ソウル大学物理天文学科)、中本 泰史(東京工業大学)、荒川 政彦(神戸大学大学院理学研究科、共同)、安部 正真(宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所)

[PPS03-P12] Observation Plans of Thermal Infrared Imager TIR onboard Hayabusa2 during the Asteroid Proximity Phase

*岡田 達明1,2福原 哲哉3田中 智1田口 真3荒井 武彦4千秋 博紀5坂谷 尚哉6小川 佳子7出村 裕英7北里 宏平7神山 徹8関口 朋彦9嶌生 有理1長谷川 直1松永 恒雄4和田 毅彦1今村 剛2滝田 隼10青木 勇也7須古 健太郎7ヘルベルト ヨルン11ミュラー トマス12ハゲルマン アクセル13 (1.宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所、2.東京大学、3.立教大学、4.国立環境研究所、5.千葉工業大学、6.明治大学、7.会津大学、8.産業技術総合研究所、9.北海道教育大学、10.北海道北見北斗高校、11.ドイツ航空宇宙センター、12.マックスプランク地球外物理学研究所、13.オープン大学)

キーワード:はやぶさ2、熱赤外カメラ、熱慣性

Thermal Infrared Imager (TIR) [1] is one of remote sensing instruments on Hayabusa2, the second asteroid sample return mission organized by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). TIR is basically the same design of Longwave Infrared Camera (LIR) [2] on Akatsuki (Venus Climate Orbiter), based on two-dimensional micro-bolometer array with 328 x 248 effective pixels, and its field of view is 16° x 12°, its IFOV is 0.05°/pixel (0.88 mrad/pixel), and the detection wavelength is from 8 to 12 μm. TIR aims at investigating thermo-physical properties of the surface of C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, and at assessing the safe landing for touchdown to the surface of the asteroid.

Hayabusa2 was launched in 2014, will arrive at the target asteroid Ryugu in 2018, and come back to Earth with the sample collected from the surface of the asteroid. The approach phase with optical navigation to reach the asteroid will start in the summer of 2018, where TIR will start observations of Ryugu from more than 2000 km distance. The asteroid Ryugu, with 0.88 km in diameter, 7.63 hours of rotation period, 0.05 in average geometrical albedo, and 200 to 300 of thermal inertia in SI unit. TIR will take images of Ryugu for one rotation period at the distance of 2000 km (a point source), 200 km (several pixels, and 20 km. TIR will observe the light-curves and the geologic features of the asteroid.

After checking the status, TIR will be mainly used for landing site selection with other remote instruments from Home Position (20 km earthward from the asteroid), 5 km altitude from the asteroid (also on the Earth-Ryugu line). These observations will be planned before all the three touchdown operations. During the rehearsals for touchdown as well as the lander deployment operations, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft will descend to 40 m altitude and TIR will image the surface at higher spatial resolution. During the touchdown operations for sample collection, TIR will take images even at 7 m altitude, with the resolution of less than 10 mm per pixel. During the SCI (Small Carry-on Impactor) deployment operation, TIR will track the SCI every two second for one minute. During the escape operation of Hayabusa2 spacecraft to avoid damage from the SCI explosion, TIR will take images (for longer integration time) of the deep sky and possibly obtain dust clouds excavated by the SCI impact to the asteroid. Plans of TIR observations will be explained in more detail [3].



Acknowledgments

The authors appreciate all the members of Hayabusa2 Project and supporting staffs for their technical assistance and scientific discussions. This research is partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No. 26287108, by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative areas (Aqua Planetology), No. 17H06459, and by the Core-to-Core program “International Network of Planetary Sciences”, of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.



References

[1] Okada T. et al. (2017) Space Sci. Rev., 208, 255-286.

[2] Fukuhara T. et al. (2011) Earth Planets Space, 63, 1009-1018.
[3] Okada T. et al. (2018) Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 49, #1403