Main Focus
I am a physicist with expertise in the follwong fields: microwave radiation transfer through planetary atmospheres inverse problems, especially retrieval of atmospheric properties from microwave spectra; instrument development and instrument performance testing, parallel processing and high performance computing.
Curriculum Vitae
Employment:
Since 2013: Co-Investigator
for the instrument SWI (Sub-millimeter Wave Instrument) onboard the
Juice spacecraft (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, launched in April 2023)
Since
2009: Co-Investigator for the instrument HIFI (Heterodyne Instrument
for the Far Infrared) onboard the Herschel Space Observatory (launched
in 2009)
Since 2006: Co-Investigator for the instrument MIRO (Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, launched in 2004)
Since 2004: Senior scientist at MPS
Education:
1991: Diplom in physics, Thesis: "High-temperature Superconductivity", Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
Selected Publications:
T. Cavalie, B. Benmahi, V. Hue, … and C. Jarchow (2021) First direct measurement of auroral and equatorial jets in the stratosphere of Jupiter, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 647, id.L8, 11 pp.
T. Cavalie, V. Hue, P. Hartogh, … C. Jarchow, et al. (2019) Herschel map of Saturn’s stratospheric water, delivered by the plumes of Enceladus, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 630, id.A87, 15 pp.
D. W. Marshall, P. Hartogh, L. Rezac, … C. Jarchow, et al. (2017) Spatially resolved evolution of the H2O production rates of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the MIRO instrument on Rosetta, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 603, id.A87, 11 pp.
N. Biver, M. Hofstadter, … C. Jarchow et al. (2015) Distribution of water around the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 3.4 AU from the Sun as seen by the MIRO instrument on Rosetta, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 583, id.A3, 7 pp.
P. Hartogh, C. Jarchow, E. Lellouch, et al. (2010), Herschel/HIFI observations of Mars: First detection of O2 at submillimetre wavelengths and upper limits on HCl and H2O2, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 521 id.L49, 5 pp.