Dates and Location


The Comet Interceptor SWT Meeting #6 will take place on 31st March -1st  April 2025 in the High Bay in the Erasmus building at ESTEC.

 

Registration


Registration is now closed.

 

logistics


Information about meeting logistics can be found on the top as a subitem to this SWT #6 page.

 

Programme

31 March 2025

Working Groups

13:15   Working Group meetings (summary session for TIWG and CEWG,  virtual WG meetings of all WGs will take place 27/28 March)

Open SWT Meeting (Part 1)

14:30   Welcome, Introduction (M. Küppers, H. Kawakita)

14:40   ESA Update (N. Rando, M. Küppers)

15:00   JAXA Project Update (R. Funase)

15:15   Instrument Lead Scientist update (emphasis on science aspects), Instrument Lead Scientists, 10 min per instrument, 20 min for DFP)

  • Science activities within the instrument team
  • Calibration aspects (synthesis of needs, approach, planning)
  • Preferred activity range and other important parameters for the comet flyby

Coffee break within the block

17:15   Report from the CISDC (M. Albrecht-Marc and colleagues)

17:30   Adjourn

1 April 2025

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09:00 Meeting of the SWT Executive (Erasmus Building, Room NA 213)

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Open SWT Meeting (Part 2)

10:30   Reports from WGs (WG chairs, including LSST status in TIWG report, 20 minutes each)

11:30   Coffee break

12:00   How much earlier would LSST have discovered Comet Interceptor virtual targets? (L. Inno)

12:20   Optimal choice of closest approach distance for a comet flyby: Application to the Comet Interceptor mission (J. de Keyser)

12:40   Discussion on target selection criteria (All)

13:30   Lunch

Science Session

14:30   Why we need space telescopes? The challenges of detecting interstellar comets from ground with increasing levels of light pollution: a case study from 2I/Borisov (J.-M. Trigo Rodríguez)

14:50   An update on Comet Interceptor Virtual Target statistics 2019-2025 (M. Kidger)

15:10   Towards a self consistent model of gas and dust emission on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (N. Attree)

15:30   Coffee break

16:00   Joint modelling of preliminary Comet Interceptor flyby scenarios with photorealistic 3D tools for OPIC, MIRMIS and EnVisS imagers (A. Slavinskis)

16:20   Automatized image data generation for the Comet Interceptor (R. Dengel)

16:40 AOB, next meeting

17:00 End of SWT Meeting

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