Schroeder I, Isaac Raedwald Hans Garfield; Altwegg, Kathrin; Balsiger, Hans; Gasc, Sébastien; Rubin, Martin; Sémon, Thierry; Tzou, Chia-Yu; Wampfler, Susanne; Wurz, Peter (2019). 16O/18O ratio in water in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured with the Rosetta/ROSINA double-focusing mass spectrometer. Astronomy and astrophysics, 630, A29. EDP Sciences 10.1051/0004-6361/201833806
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The European Space Agency spacecraft Rosetta accompanied the Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for over two years along its trajectory through the inner solar system. Between 2014 and 2016, it performed almost continuous in-situ measurements of the comet's gaseous atmosphere in close proximity to its nucleus. In this study, the 16O/18O ratio of H2O in the coma of
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as measured by the ROSINA DFMS mass spectrometer on board Rosetta, was determined from the ratio of H2_16O / H2_18O and 16OH / 18OH. The value of 445 plus/minus 35 represents an approximately 11% enrichment of 18O compared with the terrestrial ratio of 498.7 plus/minus 0.1. This cometary value is consistent with the comet containing primordial water, in accordance with leading self-shielding models. These models predict primordial water to be between 5% to 20% enriched in heavier oxygen isotopes compared to terrestrial water.
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