论文标题
Spitzer的太阳系科学遗产：太阳系形成与进化的遗物的研究。第1部分 - 彗星，半人马和库珀皮带对象
Spitzer's Solar System Science Legacy: Studies of the Relics of Solar System Formation & Evolution. Part 1 - Comets, Centaurs, & Kuiper Belt Objects
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论文摘要
在其16年的科学测量中，Spitzer空间望远镜对近距离太阳系对象进行了许多地面断裂和关键的红外测量。目标的范围从最小的行星到巨型行星，并帮助我们改革了对这些物体的理解，同时还为2020年代詹姆斯·韦伯（James Webb）太空望远镜（James Webb Space Telescope）奠定了基础。在第一篇论文中，我们描述了Spitzer空间望远镜如何通过观察小型外部太阳系行星（即彗星，百星和Kuiper带对象（KBOS））来提高我们对太阳系形成和进化的知识。这些物体来自太阳系早期时代的遗物，这些对象拥有有关创建它们的过程的重要信息。关键的Spitzer观察值可以分为3个宽类：新太阳系对象的表征（D/ISON 2012 S1，C/2016 R2，1I/`OUMUAMUA）；对已知物体大小（彗星，半人马和KBO）的大量人口调查；以及通过光谱测量身体表面和发射材料（彗星，半人马和KBO）的组成研究。
In its 16 years of scientific measurements, the Spitzer Space Telescope performed a number of ground breaking and key infrared measurements of Solar System objects near and far. Targets ranged from the smallest planetesimals to the giant planets, and have helped us reform our understanding of these objects while also laying the groundwork for future infrared space-based observations like those to be undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope in the 2020s. In this first Paper, we describe how the Spitzer Space Telescope advanced our knowledge of Solar System formation and evolution via observations of small outer Solar System planetesimals, i.e., Comets, Centaurs, and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). Relics from the early formation era of our Solar System, these objects hold important information about the processes that created them. The key Spitzer observations can be grouped into 3 broad classes: characterization of new Solar System objects (comets D/ISON 2012 S1, C/2016 R2, 1I/`Oumuamua); large population surveys of known object sizes (comets, Centaurs, and KBOs); and compositional studies via spectral measurements of body surfaces and emitted materials (comets, Centaurs, and KBOs).
