Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsa31a..08h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SA31A-08
Physics
2129 Interplanetary Dust, 3311 Clouds And Aerosols
Scientific paper
The Cosmic Dust Experiment (CDE) onboard the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission is a dust impact experiment designed to monitor the variability of the cosmic dust influx. It is based on permanently polarized thin plastic film sensors that generate an electrical signal when an impacting dust particle penetrates them. The total surface area is about 0.1 square meters and the detection threshold is about a micron in particle radius. The variability of these small grains is assumed to follow the variability of the dominant 100 micron radius particles, hence the measured flux can be used in correlation studies with various Noctilucent Cloud (NLC) activity indexes. AIM was launched on April 25, 2007 and CDE was turned on May 23, 2007. Following calibration and testing, CDE has been operating nominally since about June 1, 2007. In this talk we will give a brief overview of the CDE instrument, describe the data processing algorithms and the results from the first 9 months of operation (6/2007 — 2/2008). Finally, these results will be compared to dust flux models and earlier dust measurements.
Horanyi Mihaly
James Dionne
Poppe Andreas
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