JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020

講演情報

[E] 口頭発表

セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-PS 惑星科学

[P-PS07] 太陽系小天体:リュウグウとベヌーの探査および太陽系小天体全般

コンビーナ:中本 泰史(東京工業大学)、岡田 達明(宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所)、Dante S Lauretta(University of Arizona)、石黒 正晃(ソウル大学物理天文学科)

[PPS07-22] Aggregate structure of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

*荒川 創太1,2大野 和正3,2 (1.国立天文台、2.東京工業大学、3.カリフォルニア大学サンタクルーズ校)

キーワード:彗星、熱慣性、引張強度

The Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has provided plenty of data to understand what comets are made of. The thermal and mechanical properties of dust aggregates encapsulate information on their internal structure. In this study, we investigate whether the comet is made of homogeneous or hierarchical aggregates using theoretical models of the thermal inertia and tensile strength of dust aggregates (Arakawa et al. 2019, Tatsuuma et al. 2019). We found that it is difficult to explain the tensile strength of the comet if the comet is a homogeneous aggregate constituted by micron-sized dust grains. Then we also calculated the thermal inertia and tensile strength of hierarchical aggregates. We analytically derived the physical properties of hierarchical dust aggregates and compared our theoretical model with experimental data of the tensile strength of hierarchical aggregates (Blum et al. 2014, Brisset et al. 2016). We found that the thermal inertia and tensile strength of the comet are consistent with the hierarchical aggregate constituted by cm- or dm-sized aggregates, which is basically consistent with the result of Blum et al. (2017). These findings indicate that the icy planetesimals may form via accretion of cm- or dm-sized compressed dust aggregates in the solar nebula.