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Dominique Bockelée-Morvan(born 1957) is a Frenchastrophysicistandplanetary scientistspecializing in the molecular composition ofcomets.[1]She is a director of research for theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS), affiliated with theParis Observatory,[2]and a former president of Commission 15 on the Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets of theInternational Astronomical Union.[3]

Education and career

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Bockelée-Morvan earned a doctorate in 1987 throughParis Diderot University,with the dissertationLes conditions d'excitation des molecules meres dans les atmospheres cometaires: applications a l'eau et a l'acide cyanhydrique,supervised by Jacques Crovisier.[4]

She was president of Commission 15 on the Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets of theInternational Astronomical Union,from 2012 to 2015.[3]

Research

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Bockelée-Morvan brought the study of comets from a (literally) dusty backwater of planetary science into the mainstream.[2][5] Through infrared and radio observations of comets,[2]and the development of excitation models for cometary chemicals,[1]she has found over 20 different molecular impurities in their ice.[2]Her work found connections between the makeup of comets and of theinterstellar medium,and withprebiotic chemistry.[5]She has also helped explain the 3.4 μm-wavelength emissions of comets.[1]

She has been a collaborator on the MIRO and VIRTIS experiments on theRosetta space probeand its 2014 flyby study of comet67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.[2][5]Beyond comets, she has also contributed to the first discovery ofwater vaporon the asteroidCeres.[5]

Recognition

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Bockelée-Morvan was the 1991 winner of theThorlet Prize[fr]of theFrench Academy of Sciences,for her studies ofHalley's Comet.She won the young researcher prize of theSociété Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique(SF2A) in 1992.[6]

She received the David Bates Medal of theEuropean Geosciences Unionin 2002, "for her exceptional observations and interpretations of the composition of comets".[7]She received theCNRS Silver Medalin 2014.[2][5]

Asteroid4020 Dominique,discovered in 1981, was named after Bockelée-Morvan.[1]

Selected publications

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  • Bockelée-Morvan, D. (July 1987), "A model for the excitation of water in comets",Astronomy & Astrophysics,181(1): 169–181,Bibcode:1987A&A...181..169B
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Brooke, T. Y.; Crovisier, J. (July 1995), "On the origin of the 3.2- to 3.6-μm emission features in comets",Icarus,116(1): 18–39,Bibcode:1995Icar..116...18B,doi:10.1006/icar.1995.1111
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Gautier, D.; Lis, D.C.; Young, K.; Keene, J.; Phillips, T.; Owen, T.; Crovisier, J.; Goldsmith, P.F.; Bergin, E.A.; Despois, D.; Wootten, A. (May 1998),"Deuterated water in comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and its implications for the origin of comets"(PDF),Icarus,133(1): 147–162,Bibcode:1998Icar..133..147B,doi:10.1006/icar.1998.5916,S2CID121830932
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Lis, D. C.; Wink, J. E.; Despois, D.; Crovisier, J.; Bachiller, R.; Benford, D. J.; Biver, N.; Colom, P.; Davies, J. K.; Gérard, E.; Germain, B.; Houde, M.; Mehringer, D.; Moreno, R.; Paubert, G.; Phillips, T. G.; Rauer, H. (January 2000), "New molecules found in comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Investigating the link between cometary and interstellar material",Astronomy & Astrophysics,353:1101–1114,Bibcode:2000A&A...353.1101B
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Gautier, D.; Hersant, F.; Huré, J.-M.; Robert, F. (March 2002), "Turbulent radial mi xing in the solar nebula as the source of crystalline silicates in comets",Astronomy & Astrophysics,384(3): 1107–1118,Bibcode:2002A&A...384.1107B,doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020086,S2CID221311321
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Crovisier, J.; Mumma, M. J.; Weaver, H. A. (2004),"The composition of cometary volatiles"(PDF),in Festou, M.; Keller, H. U.; Weaver, Harold A. (eds.),Comets II,University of Arizona Press, pp. 391–424,Bibcode:2004come.book..391B,ISBN9780816524501
  • Küppers, Michael; O'Rourke, Laurence; Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique; Zakharov, Vladimir; Lee, Seungwon; von Allmen, Paul; Carry, Benoît; Teyssier, David; Marston, Anthony; Müller, Thomas; Crovisier, Jacques; Barucci, M. Antonietta; Moreno, Raphael (January 2014), "Localized sources of water vapour on the dwarf planet (1) Ceres",Nature,505(7484): 525–527,Bibcode:2014Natur.505..525K,doi:10.1038/nature12918,PMID24451541,S2CID4448395
  • Bockelée-Morvan, D.; Biver, N. (May 2017), "The composition of cometary ices",Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,375(2097): 20160252,Bibcode:2017RSPTA.37560252B,doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0252,PMID28554972

References

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  1. ^abcdSchmadel, Lutz D. (2012),"(4020) Dominique",Dictionary of Minor Planet Names,vol. 2 (6th ed.), Springer, p. 321,ISBN9783642297182
  2. ^abcdefDominique Bockelée-Morvan, Chercheuse en astrophysique(in French), French National Centre for Scientific Research, September 2014,retrieved2023-03-04
  3. ^ab"Dominique Bockelee-Morvan",Individual members,International Astronomical Union,retrieved2023-03-04
  4. ^Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique; Crovisier, J. (January 1987),"Les conditions d'excitation des molecules meres dans les atmospheres cometaires: applications a l'eau et a l'acide cyanhydrique",Theses.fr(These de doctorat),retrieved2023-03-04
  5. ^abcdeDeux chercheurs de l'Observatoire de Paris lauréats de médailles du CNRS 2014(in French), Paris Observatory,retrieved2023-03-04
  6. ^"Liste des médailles, prix, honneurs, distinctions"(PDF),Laboratoire d'Études Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA)(in French), Paris Observatory,retrieved2023-03-04
  7. ^David Bates Medal 2002: Dominique Bockelée-Morvan,European Geosciences Union,retrieved2023-03-04
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