Comet Interceptor Science Working TEam (SWT)

 

This website contains information and material from meetings of the Science Working Team (SWT) and its Working Groups.

The Comet Interceptor SWT advises ESA on all scientific aspects of the mission. All instruments are represented in the SWT, together with four Interdisciplinary Scientists.

Below are the lists of Comet Interceptor instruments and their lead scientists, and of the Interdisciplinary Scientsts.

Comet Interceptor Instruments and Lead Scientists
Instrument Name Institution Function
Comet Camera (CoCa) Nicolas Thomas Univ. Bern, Switzerland  CoCa Lead Scientist
       
Dust, Fields, Plasma (DFP) Hanna Rothkaehl Center of Space Research (CBK), Warsaw, Poland DFP Lead Scientist
  Vincenzo della Corte INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Marina Galand Imperial College, London, UK DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Pierre Henri CNRS, Orleans and Nice, France DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Uli Auster TU Braunschweig, Germany DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Nicolas Andre IRAP, France DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Hans Nilsson IRF-Kiruna, Sweden DFP Co-Lead Scientist
  Ivana Kolmasova IAP, Praque, Czech Republic DFP Co-Lead Scientist
       
Mass Analyzer for Neutrals in a Coma (MANiaC) Martin Rubin Univ. Bern, Switzerland MANIaC Lead Scientist
       
Modular InfraRed Molecules and Ices Sensor (MIRMIS) Neil Bowles Univ. Oxford, UK MIRMIS Lead Scientist
  Antti Näsilä

VTT, Espoo, Finland

 MIRMIS Co-Lead Scientist
  Geronimo Villanueva NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre MIRMIS Co-Lead Scientist
       
Hydrogen Imager (HI) Kazuo Yoshioka Univ. of Tokyo, Japan HI Lead Scientist
       
Narrow Angle Camera/Wide Angle Camera (NAC/WAC) Naoya Sakatani JAXA, Japan NAC/WAC Lead Scientist
  Shingo Kameda Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan NAC/WAC Co-Lead Scientist
       
Plasma Suite (PS) Satoshi Kasahara University of Tokyo, Japan PS Lead Scientist
  Ayako Matsuoka Kyoto University, Japan PS Co-Lead Scientist
       
Entire Visible Sky (EnVisS) Vania Da Deppo CNR-IFN, Padova, Italy EnVisS Lead Scientist
  Luisa Lara IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain EnVisS Co-Lead Scientist
       
Optical Periscope Imager for Comets (OPIC) Mihkel Pajusalu Univ. of Tartu, Estonia OPIC Lead Scientist

 

 

 

Comet Interceptor Interdisciplinary Scientists
Name Institution
Sonia Fornasier Paris Observatory, France
Elena Martellato INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy
Colin Snodgrass University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Seije Sugita University of Tokyo, Japan

 

The SWT is supported by Working Groups (WGs):

 

The members of the Science Operations Working Group are:  

Name Institution Function or Instrument represented
Antoine Pommerol Univ. Bern, Switzerland Comet Camera (CoCa)
Mariusz Pozoga Center of Space Research (CBK), Warsaw, Poland Dust, Fields, Plasma (DFP)
Jan Soucek IAP, Prague, Czech Republic DFP
Anthony Servonet Univ. Bern, Switzerland Mass Analyzer for Neutrals in a Coma (MANiaC)
Tomas Kohout Univ. Helsinki, Finland Modular InfraRed Molecules and Ices Sensor (MIRMIS)
Kazuo Yoshioka Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Probe B1 Representative
Vincenzo della Corte INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy Entire Visible Sky (EnVisS)
Mihkel Pajusalu Univ. of Tartu, Estonia Optical Periscope Imager for Comets (OPIC)
Johan de Keyser Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomie, Brussels, Belgium Comet Interceptor Science DAta Centre (CISDC) Representative

 

 

 

The members of the Target Identification WG and the Comet Environment WG can be found here