Detecting nanoparticles at radio frequencies: Jovian dust stream impacts on Cassini/RPWS

Details Detecting nanoparticles at radio frequencies: Jovian dust stream impacts on Cassini/RPWS Detecting nanoparticles at radio frequencies: Jovian dust stream impacts on Cassini/RPWS

Feb 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3603103m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 3, CiteID L03103

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Dust, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Rings And Dust, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984), Space Plasma Physics: Ionization Processes (2423), General Or Miscellaneous: Instruments Useful In Three Or More Fields

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We analyse wave observations by the Cassini/RPWS instrument performed during the Jovian fly-by, when the on-board dust analyser recorded dust streams which were interpreted as nanoparticles moving at about the solar wind speed. The observed wave pulses are produced by ionisation of dust grains impacting the spacecraft. Nanoparticles are detected because they move fast and the voltage produced by impact ionisation increases very fast with speed, so that they produce wave pulses as high as do much larger grains of smaller speeds. The observed wave level and spectral shape are compatible with those expected for the streams deduced from the dust analyser observations, and the impact rates observed on both instruments appear to vary similarly. The present result is the first wave detection simultaneous with a conventional detection by a dust analyser attributed to nanoparticles.

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