COSIMA
Operational Team Meeting - Vienna 2011
24 - 26 October 2011
Vienna University of Technology,
Institute
of Chemical Engineering
Report
about the meeting in the News of TU
Vienna: English | German
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More about the COSIMA Project Laboratory for Chemometrics (TU Vienna): |
On 2 March 2004 the European Space Agency launched the space mission
Rosetta; it will reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May 2014.
Rosetta will enter into an orbit around the comet, and release a small "lander“ unit to land softly on
the comet surface. The instruments on the Rosetta "orbiter“ will investigate the comet from some distance and will
collect and analyze cometary dust. |
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One of the orbiter’s instruments is
"COSIMA“, a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS). The
COSIMA project is under the guidance of the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar
System Research (MPS), Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany,
and involves several research groups from Europe. TU Vienna contributed
methods for data analysis as well as software (Kurt Varmuza
and collaborators, Institute of Chemical Engineering, research group Thermal
Engineering and Simulation). |
The COSIMA project team gathers twice per year for "operational
team meetings“ to prepare future measurements of dust particles
directly at the comet (by 2014 and 2015), and to analyze data collected by COSIMA’s twin instrument (Research Module) operated at MPS.
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The meeting was opened by Anton Friedl, leader
of the research group Thermal Engineering and Simulation, in the Institute of
Chemical Engineering. |
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Left: Martin Hilchenbach
(MPS), the principal investigator of the COSIMA project guided the meeting. Comet
researchers from Germany (6), France (5), and Finland (2) as well as Kurt Varmuza and Bettina Liebmann
from TU Vienna discussed methods for TOF-SIMS data analysis and appropriate
software tools. Right: Johan Silén
(Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI) presented a comprehensive
introduction to software Octave and its use for TOF-SIMS data from the COSIMA
Research Module. |
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Cécile Engrand, Christelle
Briois, Giacomo Briani, Bettina Liebmann |
Bernhard Geiger, Johan Silén |
Kurt Varmuza, Jochen
Kissel |
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Henning Fischer, Yves Langevin |
Laurent Thirkell |
Harald Krüger, Klaus Hornung |
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Christelle Briois, Giacomo Briani, Bettina Liebmann |
Martin Hilchenbach, Jouni
Rynö |
<Last change:
31 October 2011>
Pictures by
Kurt Varmuza (C)