Astronomy and Astrophysics Library

Post-Rosetta Perspectives

By: Nicolas Thomas

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Hardcover | 16 December 2020

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548 Pages

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Written by a leading expert on comets, this textbook is divided into seven main elements with a view to allowing advanced students to appreciate the interconnections between the different elements. The author opens with a brief introductory segment on the motivation for studying comets and the overall scope of the book. The first chapter describes fundamental aspects most usually addressed by ground-based observation. The author then looks at the basic physical phenomena in four separate chapters addressing the nucleus, the emitted gas, the emitted dust, and the solar wind interaction. Each chapter introduces the basic physics and chemistry but then new specific measurements by Rosetta instruments at comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko are brought in. A concerted effort has been made to distinguish between established fact and conjecture. Deviations and inconsistencies are brought out and their significance explained. Links to previous observations of comets Tempel 1, Wild 2, Hartley 2, Halley and others are made. The author then closes with three smaller chapters on related objects, the loss of comets, and prospects for future exploration.

This textbook includes over 275 graphics and figures - most of which are original. Thorough explanations and derivations are included throughout the chapters. The text is therefore designed to support MSc. students and new PhD students in the field wanting to gain a solid overview of the state-of-the-art.

Industry Reviews

"This new book is a very welcome and timely addition to the collection. ... The book goes into a lot of detail, some of it at PhD level, but since it is written by a single author, it all fits together logically and so it can be read and understood by more-general readers. ... book has something which I wish other authors would adopt. ... This is an excellent, comprehensive, and up-to-date description of comets, and I thoroughly recommend it." (Nick James, The Observatory, Vol. 141 (1284), October, 2021)

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