The Sky in Dust -- Methods and Prospects of Dust Astronomy

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2006-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602096v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 3 figures, XXXVIIth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, check http://www.landisoft.de/Markus-Landgraf

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Information about the make-up of the galaxy arrives in the Solar system in many forms: photons of different energies, classically collected by ground- and space-based telescopes, neutral and charged atomic particles, and solid macroscopic particles: cosmic dust particles. Dust particles, like photons, carry information from remote sites in space and time. This information can be analysed in order to understand the processes and mechanisms that are involved in the formation and evolution of solid matter in the galaxy. This approach is called ``Dust Astronomy'' which is carried out by means of a dust telescope on a dust observatory in space. The analysis of cosmic grains collected in the high atmosphere of the Earth has shown that each dust grain is a small world with various sub-grains featuring different galactic origin and evolution, which is identified on the basis of elementary and isotopic analysis. Independent information about the origin and evolution of the grains coming from the kinematic properties of the arrival trajectory would be invaluable for linking the isotopic signature of the formation of heavy elements in old stars and supernovae to distinctive regions in our galaxy, e.g. known star-forming regions. Here we present a skymap of potential dust sources together with a report on already existing lab hardware of a trajectory sensor and a large-area mass spectrometre.

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