Paper: Achievement of the Planetary Defense Investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission
Authors: Nancy L. Chabot, Andrew S. Rivkin, Andrew F. Cheng, Olivier S. Barnouin, Eugene G. Fahnestock, Derek C. Richardson, Angela M. Stickle, Cristina A. Thomas, Carolyn M. Ernst, R. Terik Daly, Elisabetta Dotto, Angelo Zinzi, Steven R. Chesley, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Brent W. Barbee, Paul Abell, Harrison F. Agrusa, Michele T. Bannister, Joel Beccarelli, Dmitriy L. Bekker, Megan Bruck Syal, Bonnie J. Buratti, Michael W. Busch, Adriano Campo Bagatin, Joseph P. Chatelain, Sidney Chocron, Gareth S. Collins, Luca Conversi, Thomas M. Davison, Mallory E. DeCoster, J. D. Prasanna Deshapriya, Siegfried Eggl, Raymond C. Espiritu, Tony L. Farnham, Marin Ferrais, Fabio Ferrari, Dora Föhring, Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, Igor Gai, Carmine Giordano, David A. Glenar, Edward Gomez, Dawn M. Graninger, Simon F. Green, Sarah Greenstreet, Pedro H. Hasselmann, Isabel Herreros, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Marek Husárik, Simone Ieva, Stavro L. Ivanovski, Samuel L. Jackson, Emmanuel Jehin, Martin Jutzi, Ozgur Karatekin, Matthew M. Knight, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Michael Küppers, Fiorangela La Forgia, Monica Lazzarin, Jian-Yang Li, Tim A. Lister, Ramin Lolachi, Michael P. Lucas, Alice Lucchetti, Robert Luther, Rahil Makadia, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Jay McMahon, Gianmario Merisio, Colby C. Merrill, Alex J. Meyer, Patrick Michel, Marco Micheli, Alessandra Migliorini, Kate Minker, Dario Modenini, Fernando Moreno, Naomi Murdoch, Brian Murphy, Shantanu P. Naidu, Hari Nair, Ryota Nakano, Cyrielle Opitom, Jens Ormö, J. Michael Owen, Maurizio Pajola, Eric E. Palmer, Pasquale Palumbo, Paolo Panicucci, Laura M. Parro, Jason M. Pearl, Antti Penttilä, Davide Perna, Elisabeta Petrescu, Petr Pravec, Sabina D. Raducan, K. T. Ramesh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Juan L. Rizos, Alessandro Rossi, Nathan X. Roth, Agata Rożek, Benjamin Rozitis, Eileen V. Ryan, William H. Ryan, Paul Sánchez, Toni Santana-Ros, Daniel J. Scheeres, Peter Scheirich, Cem Berk Senel, Colin Snodgrass, Stefania Soldini, Damya Souami, Thomas S. Statler, Rachel Street, Timothy J. Stubbs, Jessica M. Sunshine, Nicole J. Tan, Gonzalo Tancredi, Calley L. Tinsman, Paolo Tortora, Filippo Tusberti, James D. Walker, C. Dany Waller, Kai Wünnemann, Marco Zannoni, Yun Zhang
Figure caption: A small sampling of the observations of the ejecta resulting from DART's kinetic impact event. (a) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, South Africa—2022 September 26, 15 minutes post-impact. The frame is roughly 19,000 km across. (b) JWST NIRCam—2022 September 27, 1.5 hr post-impact, acquired in the F090W filter (pivot wavelength 0.90 μm). The frame is roughly 300 km across. (c) Ōtehīwai Mt. John Observatory, New Zealand—2022 October 6. The frame is roughly 24,000 km across. (d) Magdelena Ridge Observatory, USA—2022 November 30. The frame is roughly 24,000 km across. (e) Lowell Discovery Telescope, USA—2023 March 14. The tail is measured in this deep stack of frames totaling 20,000 s to be roughly 70,000 km in length. (f) Hubble Space Telescope—combined products from images acquired 2023 June 30–July 6, with 2.4 hr total exposure time, with filter F350LP (pivot wavelength 587 nm). The frame is roughly 70,000 km across.