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Small Bodies Near and Far (SBNAF): A benchmark study on physical and thermal properties of small bodies in the Solar System
Marton, G.; Müller, T. G.; Alí-Lagoa, V. +15 more
The combination of visible and thermal data from the ground and astrophysics space missions is key to improving the scientific understanding of near-Earth, main-belt, trojans, centaurs, and trans-Neptunian objects. To get full information on a small sample of selected bodies we combine different methods and techniques: lightcurve inversion, stella…
Late stages of stellar evolution - Herschel's contributions
Decin, Leen
Cool objects glow in the infrared. The gas and solid-state species that escape the stellar gravitational attraction of evolved late-type stars in the form of a stellar wind are cool, with temperatures typically ≲1500 K, and can be ideally studied in the infrared. These stellar winds create huge extended circumstellar envelopes with extents approac…
The first results from the Herschel-HIFI mission
van der Tak, Floris
This paper contains a summary of the results from the first years of observations with the HIFI instrument onboard ESA's Herschel space observatory. The paper starts by outlining the goals and possibilities of far-infrared and submillimeter astronomy, the limitations of the Earth's atmosphere, and the scientific scope of the Herschel-HIFI mission.…