Electrically-Charged Dust in the Solar System: Direct and Indirect Evidence

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May 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #218.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.884

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Dust particles exposed the solar UV radiation and plasmas in the solar system will collect electrostatic charges. Depending on their charge-to-mass ratio, their dynamics could be perturbed or possibly dominated by electromagnetic forces. This talk will first briefly review the dominant charging processes and the resulting dynamics of dust particles where the gravitational and electromagnetic forces are of similar magnitude. In addition to the unusual dynamics of single grains, we will also explore possible dusty plasma collective effects.
We will briefly tour the solar system and show unusual observations that could be best explained by exploring the physics of dust charging, and dusty plasmas. Examples will include the surfaces of airless bodies, the high-speed stream particles ejected from the magnetosphere of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, and the flow of interstellar dust through the heliosphere.

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