In-situ-analysis of ice particles in the solar system: applications, methods, instrument developement

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Frank Postberg
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 248585700

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• High-temperature water-rock interactions and hydrothermal environments in the chondrite-like core of Enceladus. Nature Communications, Vol. 6. 2015, Article number: 8604.
  Sekine, Y., Shibuya, T., Postberg, F., Hsu, H.-W., Suzuki, K., Masaki, Y., Kuwatani, T., Mori, M., Hong, P.K., Yoshizaki, M, Tachibana, S., Sirono, S.-I.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9604)
• Enceladus Life Finder: The Search for Life in a Habitable Moon. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 5-12 March 2016, ISBN 978-1-4673-7676-1.
  Reh, K., Cable, M., Clark, K., Lunine, J., Postberg, F., Spilker, L., and Waite, J.H.
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2016.7500813)
• Flux and composition of interstellar dust at Saturn from Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyzer. Science, Vol. 352. 2016, Issue 6283, pp. 312-318.
  Altobelli N., Postberg F., Fiege K., Trieloff M., Kimura H., Sterken V. J., Hsu H.-W., Hillier J., Khawaja N., Moragas-Klostermeyer G., Blum J., Burton M., Srama R., Kempf S., Gruen E.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac6397)
• Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus. Nature Astronomy, Vol. 1. 2017, pp. 841–847.
  Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Sotin, C., Behounkova, M., Cadek, O., Postberg, F., and Soucek, O.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0289-8)
• Impact ionisation mass spectrometry of platinum-coated olivine and magnesitedominated cosmic dust analogues. Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 156. 2018, pp. 96-110.
  Hillier J. K., Sternovsky, Z., Kempf, S., Trieloff, M., Guglielmino, M., Postberg, F., Price M.C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2017.10.002)
• In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere. Science, Vol. 362. 2018, Issue 6410, eaat3185.
  Hsu H. -W., Schmidt J., Kempf S., Postberg F, Moragas-Klostermeyer G., Sieß M. Hoffmann H., Burton M., Ye S. Y., Kurth W. S. Horànyi M., Khawaja N., Spahn F., Schirdesahn D., O’Donoghue J., Moore L., Cuzzi J., Jones G. H., Srama R.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3185)
• Analogue Spectra for Impact Ionization Mass Spectra of Water Ice Grains Obtained at Different Impact Speeds in Space. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, Vol. 33. 2019, Issue 22, pp. 1751-1760.
  Klenner, F., Postberg, F., Hillier, J., Khawaja, N., Reviol, R., Srama, R., Abel, B., Stolz, F., Kempf, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8518)
• Low-mass nitrogen-, oxygen-bearing and aromatic compounds in Enceladean ice grains. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489. 2019, Issue 4, pp. 5231–5243.
  Khawaja N., Postberg F., Hillier J., Klenner F., Kempf S., Nölle L., Reviol R., Zou Z., Srama R.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2280)