Interstellar Dust in the Solar System

Sterken, Veerle; Westphal, A. J.; Altobelli, Nicolás; Malaspina, D.; Postberg, F.

doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0607-9

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“…The Wind dust impact database presents exciting opportunities for investigating heliospheric dust dynamics (Sterken et al, 2019) 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Year ous ways from mass, momentum, and energy transport to physical damage to spacecraft (e.g., cutting of wire antenna). For instance, one of the wire antennas, that form the electric field probes for Wind/WAVES, was cut twice by what is suspected to be dust impacts.…”

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“…Researchers determined that the signals corresponded to micron-sized (i.e., dust grains ∼1 μm in size) interplanetary dust (IPD) and interstellar dust (ISD) (Malaspina et al, 2014;Sterken et al, 2019). Wood et al (2015) then determined the longitudinal direction of ISD using spectroscopic measurements from Ulysses, which was orbiting the solar poles.…”

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“…The Wind dust impact database presents exciting opportunities for investigating heliospheric dust dynamics (Sterken et al, 2019) Finally, a more recent development arose when researchers using an Earth-observing spacecraft, Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) (Russell et al, 2009), found some variations in meteoric smoke-the product of meteoroid ablation (at ∼75-110 km altitude) in Earth's mesosphere. These observations were made by the Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) (Gordley et al, 2009).…”

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“…2 Landgraf et al (1999) found a range of 1.4 < β < 1.8 from Ulysses measurements, and Kimura et al dust flow characteristics was given by Sterken et al (2012). Reviews about interstellar dust measurements in the solar system were recently given by Mann (2010) and Sterken et al (2019). The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) shows systematic variations with time, including the 25-day solar rotation and the 22-year solar magnetic cycle, as well as local deviations caused by disturbances in the interplanetary magnetic field, due to, e.g.…”

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Interstellar dust in the solar system: model versus in situ spacecraft data

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In the early 1990s, contemporary interstellar dust penetrating deep into the heliosphere was identified with the in-situ dust detector on board the Ulysses spacecraft. Later on, interstellar dust was also identified in the data sets measured with dust instruments on board Galileo, Cassini and Helios. Ulysses monitored the interstellar dust stream at high ecliptic latitudes for about 16 years. The three other spacecraft data sets were obtained in the ecliptic plane and cover much shorter time intervals. We compare in-situ interstellar dust measurements obtained with these four spacecrafts, published in the literature, with predictions of a state-of-the-art model for the dynamics of interstellar dust in the inner solar system (Interplanetary Meteoroid environment for EXploration, IMEX), in order to test the reliability of the model predictions. Micrometer and sub-micrometer sized dust particles are subject to solar gravity and radiation pressure as well as to the Lorentz force on a charged dust particle moving through the Interplanetary Magnetic Field, leading to a complex size dependent flow pattern of interstellar dust in the planetary system. The IMEX model was calibrated with the Ulysses interstellar dust measurements and includes these relevant forces. We study the time-resolved flux and mass distribution of interstellar dust in the solar system. The IMEX model agrees with the spacecraft measurements within a factor of 2 to 3, also for time intervals and spatial regions not covered by the original model calibration with the Ulysses data set. It usually underestimates the dust fluxes measured by the space missions which were not used for the model calibration, i.e. Galileo, Cassini and Helios. IMEX is a unique time-dependent model for the prediction of interstellar dust fluxes and mass distributions for the inner and outer solar system. The model is suited to study dust detection conditions for past and future space missions.

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This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) The Wind MissionNASA launched the Wind spacecraft on November 1, 1994. Wind and Polar (Harten & Clark, 1995) were part of the stand-alone Global Geospace Science (GGS) Program (Acuña et al., 1995), a subset of the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Program (Whipple & Lancaster, 1995). The ISTP Program included the additional missions Geotail (Nishida, 1994), the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory or SoHO (Domingo et al., 1995), and Cluster (Escoubet et al., 1997). The objective of the ISTP program was to study the origin of solar variability and activity, the transport of manifestations of that activity to the Earth via plasma processes, and the cause-and-effect relationships between that time varying energy transport and the near-earth environment.

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Interstellar Dust in the Solar System

Cited by 33 publications

References 137 publications

A Quarter Century ofWindSpacecraft Discoveries

A Quarter Century ofWindSpacecraft Discoveries

Interstellar dust in the solar system: model versus in situ spacecraft data

A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries

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