Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1999
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American Physical Society, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, November 15-19, 1999 Seattle, WA, abstract #KM
Physics
Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
The study of dusty plasmas is an emerging new field that bridges traditionally separate subjects: celestial mechanics and plasma physics. Dust particles immersed in plasmas and UV radiation collect electrostatic charges and respond to electromagnetic forces in addition to all the other forces acting on uncharged grains. Simultaneously they can alter their plasma environment. Dust particles in plasmas are unusual charge carriers. They are many orders of magnitude heavier then any other plasma particles and they can have many orders of magnitude larger (negative or positive) time dependent charges. Dusty plasmas represent the most general form of space, laboratory and industrial plasmas. Interplanetary space, comets, planetary rings, dusty surfaces in space, aerosols in the atmosphere, are all examples where electrons, ions and dust particles coexist. I will briefly discuss the most important physical processes, and the status of current space experiments related to dusty plasmas, including Ulysses and Galileo measurements at Jupiter and the plans for the upcoming Cassini observations at Saturn.
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