Below are listed publications related to the Comet Interceptor mission and its instruments that appear in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings. For general articles, please refer to the "In The Media" section accessible via the menu above.
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Papers and Conference Proceedings

2024
  • De Keyser, J., N. J. T. Edberg, P. Henri, H.-U. Auster, M. Galand, M. Rubin, H. Nilsson, J. Soucek, N. André, V. Della Corte, H. Rothkaehl, R. Funase, S. Kasahara, C. Corral Van Damme, In situ plasma and neutral gas observation time windows during a comet flyby: Application to the Comet Interceptor mission, Planetary and Space Science 244 (2024) 105878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.105878
  • Jones, G. H., Snodgrass, C., Tubiana, C., Küppers, M., Kawakita, H., Lara, L. M., Agarwal, J., André, N., Attree, N., Auster, U., Bagnulo, S., Bannister, M., Beth, A., Bowles, N., Coates, A., Colangeli, L., Corral van Damme, C., Da Deppo, V., De Keyser, J., Della Corte, V., Edberg, N., El-Maarry, M. R., Faggi, S., Fulle, M., Funase, R., Galand, M., Goetz, C., Groussin, O., Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Henri, P., Kasahara, S., Kereszturi, A., Kidger, M., Knight, M., Kokotanekova, R., Kolmasova, I., Kossacki, K., Kührt, E., Kwon, Y., La Forgia, F., Levasseur-Regourd, A.-C., Lippi, M., Longobardo, A., Marschall, R., Morawski, M., Muñoz, O., Näsilä, A., Nilsson, H., Opitom, C., Pajusalu, M., Pommerol, A., Prech, L., Rando, N., Ratti, F., Rothkaehl, H., Rotundi, A., Rubin, M., Sakatani, N., Sánchez, J. P., Simon Wedlund, C., Stankov, A., Thomas, N., Toth, I., Villanueva, G., Vincent, J.-B., Volwerk, M., Wurz, P., Wielders, A., Yoshioka, K., Aleksiejuk, K., Alvarez, F., Amoros, C., Aslam, S., Atamaniuk, B., Baran, J., Barciński, T., Beck, T., Behnke, T., Berglund, M., Bertini, I., Bieda, M., Binczyk, P., Busch, M.-D., Cacovean, A., Capria, M. T., Carr, C., Castro Marín, J. M., Ceriotti, M., Chioetto, P., Chuchra-Konrad, A., Cocola, L., Colin, F., Crews, C., Cripps, V., Cupido, E., Dassatti, A., Davidsson, B. J. R., De Roche, T., Deca, J., Del Togno, S., Dhooghe, F., Donaldson Hanna, K., Eriksson, A., Fedorov, A., Fernández-Valenzuela, E., Ferretti, S., Floriot, J., Frassetto, F., Fredriksson, J., Garnier, P., Gaweł, D., Génot, V., Gerber, T., Glassmeier, K.-H., Granvik, M., Grison, B., Gunell, H., Hachemi, T., Hagen, C., Hajra, R., Harada, Y., Hasiba, J., Haslebacher, N., Herranz De La Revilla, M. L., Hestroffer, D., Hewagama, T., Holt, C., Hviid, S., Iakubivskyi, I., Inno, L., Irwin, P., Ivanovski, S., Jansky, J., Jernej, I., Jeszenszky, H., Jimenéz, J., Jorda, L., Kama, M., Kameda, S., Kelley, M. S. P., Klepacki, K., Kohout, T., Kojima, H., Kowalski, T., Kuwabara, M., Ladno, M., Laky, G., Lammer, H., Lan, R., Lavraud, B., Lazzarin, M., Le Duff, O., Lee, Q.-M., Lesniak, C., Lewis, Z., Lin, Z.-Y., Lister, T., Lowry, S., Magnes, W., Markkanen, J., Martinez Navajas, I., Martins, Z., Matsuoka, A., Matyjasiak, B., Mazelle, C., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Meier, M., Michaelis, H., Micheli, M., Migliorini, A., Millet, A.-L., Moreno, F., Mottola, S., Moutounaick, B., Muinonen, K., Müller, D. R., Murakami, G., Murata, N., Myszka, K., Nakajima, S., Nemeth, Z., Nikolajev, A., Nordera, S., Ohlsson, D., Olesk, A., Ottacher, H., Ozaki, N., Oziol, C., Patel, M., Savio Paul, A., Penttilä, A., Pernechele, C., Peterson, J., Petraglio, E., Piccirillo, A. M., Plaschke, F., Polak, S., Postberg, F., Proosa, H., Protopapa, S., Puccio, W., Ranvier, S., Raymond, S., Richter, I., Rieder, M., Rigamonti, R., Ruiz Rodriguez, I., Santolik, O., Sasaki, T., Schrödter, R., Shirley, K., Slavinskis, A., Sodor, B., Soucek, J., Stephenson, P., Stöckli, L., Szewczyk, P., Troznai, G., Uhlir, L., Usami, N., Valavanoglou, A., Vaverka, J., Wang, W., Wang, X.-D., Wattieaux, G., Wieser, M., Wolf, S., Yano, H., Yoshikawa, I., Zakharov, V., Zawistowski, T., Zuppella, P., Rinaldi, G., & Ji, H. (2024), The Comet Interceptor Mission, Space Science Reviews, 220, 9, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0
  • Rebelo, M.; Sánchez, J. P., Optimizing launch window opportunities for ESA's comet Interceptor mission using primer vector theory,  
    Acta Astronautica, Volume 219, pp. 340-352, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.03.006

2023
  • Vigren, E.; Eriksson, A. I.; Edberg, N. J. T.; Snodgrass, C., A potential aid in the target selection for the comet interceptor mission, Planetary and Space Science, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2023.105765
  • Costa, Henrique R.; da Silva Pais Cabral, Francisco; Villa, Victor Manuel Moreno; Gil, Paulo J. S., The Comet Interceptor Mission-Making a case for Solar Electric Propulsion, Acta Astronautica, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.04.050
  • Fulle, Marco; Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique; La Forgia, Fiorangela, A possible selection criterion of the target of Comet Interceptor mission, Advances in Space Research, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2022.12.047 
  • Della Corte, V.; Ferretti, S.; Piccirillo, A. M.; Zakharov, V.; Di Paolo, F.; Rotundi, A.; Ammannito, E.; Amoroso, M.; Bertini, I.; Di Donato, P. and 15 more, DISC - the dust impact sensor and counter on-board Comet Interceptor: Characterization of the dust coma of a dynamically new comet, Advances in Space Research, 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2023.01.049
  • N. J. T. Edberg, A. I. Eriksson, H. Nilsson, H. Gunell, C. Götz, I. Richter, P. Henri, and J. De Keyser, Scale size of cometary bow shocks, A&A, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346566, 2023
  • ​Lewis, Z., A. Beth, K. Altwegg, A. Eriksson, M. Galand et al. (2023), Origin and trends in NH4+ observed in the coma of 67P, MNRAS, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1787. 
  • S. Bergman, Y. Miyake, S. Kasahara, F. L. Johansson, and P. Henri (2023), Spacecraft Charging Simulations of Probe B1 of Comet Interceptor during the Cometary Flyby, ApJ, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad0ce5

2022
  • Marschall, Raphael; Zakharov, Vladimir; Tubiana, Cecilia; Kelley, Michael S. P.; van Damme, Carlos Corral; Snodgrass, Colin; Jones, Geraint H.; Ivanovski, Stavro L.; Postberg, Frank; Della Corte, Vincenzo and 5 more, Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft flyby: The case of ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243648 
  • Machuca, P.; Ozaki, N.; Sánchez, J. P.; Felicetti, L., Dust impact and attitude analysis for JAXA's probe on the Comet Interceptor mission, Advances in Space Research, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2022.05.070
  • Haslebacher, Nico; Gerig, Selina-Barbara; Thomas, Nicolas; Marschall, Raphael; Zakharov, Vladimir; Tubiana, Cecilia, A numerical model of dust particle impacts during a cometary encounter with application to ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, Acta Astronautica, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.02.023
  • Preda, Valentin; Hyslop, Andrew; Bennani, Samir, Optimal science-time reorientation policy for the Comet Interceptor flyby via sequential convex programming, CEAS Space Journal, 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12567-021-00368-2​
  • N. J. T. Edberg, F. L. Johansson, A. I. Eriksson, E. Vigren, P. Henri, J. de Keyser, Radial distribution of plasma at comet 67P: implications for cometary flyby missions, A&A, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243776, 2022
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2021
  • Sánchez, Joan Pau, David Morante, Pablo Hermosin, Daniel Ranuschio, Alvaro Estalella, Dayana Viera, Simone Centuori, Geraint Jones, Colin Snodgrass, Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, CeciliaTubiana, ESA F-Class Comet Interceptor: Trajectory design to intercept a yet-to-be-discovered comet, Acta Astronautica, Volume 188, November 2021, Pages 265-277. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.07.014 [Preprint]
  • D. C. Boice, H. Kobayashi, H. Kawakita, and Yoshiharu Shinnaka (2021) Relevant Coma Composition Investigations for the Comet Interceptor Mission, Res. Notes AAS 5 88, DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/abf4b8​

2020
  • Schwamb, M. E, Knight, M. M, Jones, G. H., Snodgrass, C., Bucci, L., Sánchez Pérez, J. M., Skuppin, N., and for the Comet Interceptor Science Team, Potential Backup Targets for Comet Interceptor, Research Notes of the AAS, Volume 4, Number 2 (2020). doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab7300. [Open Access]

2019
  • Snodgrass, C., Jones, G. H. The European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor lies in wait. Nat. Commun. 10, 5418 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1. [Open Access]
PhD Theses

2024
  • Haslebacher, Nico (2024) Studies of cometary dust environments in the context of the Comet Interceptor mission, PhD thesis, Universität Bern

2021
  • Suzuki, Y. (2023) Development of methods for estimating surface composition from observing surface-bounded exospheres, PhD thesis (Science), The University of Tokyo
  • Brydon, George F. (2021) Spin-scanning Cameras for Planetary Exploration: Imager Analysis and Simulation. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). [Available online]