Nanodust detection near 1 AU from spectral analysis of Cassini/Radio and Plasma Wave Science data

P Schippers, N Meyer‐Vernet… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Nanodust grains of a few nanometers in size are produced near the Sun by collisional
breakup of larger grains and picked up by the magnetized solar wind. They have so far been …

Hypervelocity dust impacts on the Wind spacecraft: Correlations between Ulysses and Wind interstellar dust detections

SR Wood, DM Malaspina, L Andersson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Wind spacecraft is positioned just sunward of Earth at the first Lagrange point, while the
Ulysses spacecraft orbits above and below the ecliptic plane crossing the ecliptic as far from …

Effective temperatures of olivine dust impact plasmas

S Kočiščák, Å Fredriksen, M DeLuca… - … on Plasma Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effective temperatures of the positive and negative charge carriers in impact plasma are
measured experimentally. The measurements are performed using a dust accelerator using …

The effects of solar wind structure on nanodust dynamics in the inner heliosphere

AR Poppe, CO Lee - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Several interplanetary spacecraft have inferred the presence of nanometer‐sized dust
grains in the inner heliosphere accelerated to near‐solar wind velocities based on …

Nanodust detection between 1 and 5 AU using Cassini wave measurements

P Schippers, N Meyer-Vernet… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The solar system contains solids of all sizes, ranging from kilometer-sized bodies to nano-
sized particles. Nanograins have been detected in situ in the Earth's atmosphere, near …

Are STEREO single hits dust impacts?

PJ Kellogg, K Goetz, SJ Monson - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A certain type of impulsive signal in the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO)
electric field data has been identified as impacts of small dust, nanodust, entrained by the …

The MEFISTO and WPT electric field sensors of the plasma wave investigation on the BepiColombo Mio spacecraft: measurements of low and high frequency electric …

T Karlsson, Y Kasaba, JE Wahlund, P Henri… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
This paper describes the design of MEFISTO (Mercury Electric Field In-Situ Tool) and WPT
(Wire Probe Antenna) electric field sensors for Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI) on the …

Impact ionization double peaks analyzed in high temporal resolution on Solar Orbiter

S Kočiščák, A Kvammen, I Mann… - Annales …, 2024 - angeo.copernicus.org
Solar Orbiter is equipped with electrical antennas performing fast measurements of the
surrounding electric field. The antennas register high-velocity dust impacts through the …

Machine Learning Detection of Dust Impact Signals Observed by The Solar Orbiter

A Kvammen, K Wickstrøm, S Kociscak, J Vaverka… - 2022 - munin.uit.no
This article present results from automatic detection of dust impact signals observed by the
Solar Orbiter–Radio and Plasma Waves instrument. A sharp and characteristic electric field …

Hyperbolic meteoroids impacting the Moon

JR Szalay, P Pokorný, M Horányi - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the discovery of the Moon's asymmetric ejecta cloud, the origin of its sunward-canted
density enhancement has not been well understood. We propose impact ejecta from …