Staff
Maria I. BŁĘCKA
Jakub CIĄŻELA
Marta CIĄŻELA
Mirosław DENIS
Ryszard GABRYSZEWSKI
Joanna GURGUREWICZ
Wlodek KOFMAN
Małgorzata KRÓLIKOWSKA-
SOŁTAN
Daniel MÈGE
Hans RICKMAN
Sławomira SZUTOWICZ
Paweł WAJER
Piotr WITEK
Natalia ZALEWSKA
Krzysztof ZIOŁKOWSKI
PhD Students
Pierre-Antoine TESSON
Kamil WóJCIKOWSKI
Publications
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Catalogue
of long-period comets
SOlar SYstem analogues database POLand
MOID
LHB team
meeting in Kraków (2013)
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Research fields
physics of planets, physics of comets, Solar
System dynamics.
Research activities
Cometary atmospheres: modeling of radio
line profiles for deducing the spatial
distribution of molecules in the coma; radiation
transfer analysis in the optical and radio
spectra ranges.
Cometary nuclei: numerical simulations
dealing with the internal structure and
activity, involving effects of orbital
evolution; planning of the ESA/Rosetta close-up
observations; cometary dust aggregates.
Planetary atmospheres and surfaces:
Analysis the radiation transfer equations in the
VIS and IR spectral ranges. Numerical
simulations of the transmittance and radiance of
the atmospheres loaded with gases, aerosols and
dust and influenced by the surface optical
parameters. Modeling and analysis of the
reflectance and emissivity measured in
laboratory.
Planetary geology: tectonics and
mineralogy of the Martian surface; formation
of the Valles Marineris canyon system;
geological sources of atmospheric methane;
Martian analogues; geology of Mercury.
Physics of surfaces and subsurface layers of
solar system bodies: thermodynamics and
mechanics of porous and granular soils, in
particular the determination of material
properties – theoretical and experimental
analysis; technological research related to
experiments in the cosmic environment.
Dynamics of small bodies in the Solar System:
modeling of the non-gravitational effects in the
orbital motion of comets taking into account the
changes of spin orientation, nonuniform surface
activity and gas production curves; predictions
of impacts with Earth by the
Potentially Hazarous Asteroids;
quasi-satellites in Earth-like orbits; dynamical
effects of tidal disruption of protocometary
objects.
Scatter Disk and Oort Cloud:
Oort spike determination and origin of actual
LP comets; Monte Carlo simulations of the
injection of comets from the Oort Coud and
subsequent orbital evolution due to planetary
perturbations; simulations of the evolution of
the scattered disk and its connection to the
Oort Cloud.
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Participation
in space experiments:
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