Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe
Abstract
We discuss the synergies between heliospheric and dust science, the open science questions, the technological endeavors and programmatic aspects that are important to maintain or develop in the decade to come. In particular, we illustrate how we can use interstellar dust in the solar system as a tracer for the (dynamic) heliosphere properties, and emphasize the fairly unexplored, but potentially important science question of the role of cosmic dust in heliospheric and astrospheric physics. We show that an Interstellar Probe mission with a dedicated dust suite would bring unprecedented advances to interstellar dust research, and can also contribute-through measuring dust - to heliospheric science. This can, in particular, be done well if we work in synergy with other missions inside the solar system, thereby using multiple vantage points in space to measure the dust as it `rolls' into the heliosphere. Such synergies between missions inside the solar system and far out are crucial for disentangling the spatially and temporally varying dust flow. Finally, we highlight the relevant instrumentation and its suitability for contributing to finding answers to the research questions.
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@article{arxiv.2308.10728,
title = {Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe},
author = {Veerle J. Sterken and Silvan Hunziker and Kostas Dialynas and Jan Leitner and Maximilian Sommer and Ralf Srama and Lennart R. Baalmann and Aigen Li and Konstantin Herbst and André Galli and Pontus Brandt and My Riebe and Jack Baggaley and Michel Blanc and Andrej Czechowski and Frederic Effenberger and Brian Fields and Priscilla Frisch and Mihaly Horanyi and Hsiang-Wen Hsu and Nozair Khawaja and Harald Krüger and Bill S. Kurth and Niels F. W. Ligterink and Jeffrey L. Linsky and Casey Lisse and David Malaspina and Jesse A. Miller and Merav Opher and Andrew R. Poppe and Frank Postberg and Elena Provornikova and Seth Redfield and John Richardson and Michael Rowan-Robinson and Klaus Scherer and Mitchell M. Shen and Jon D. Slavin and Zoltan Sternovsky and Gunter Stober and Peter Strub and Jamey Szalay and Mario Trieloff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.10728},
year = {2023}
}
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18 pages, 7 Figures, 5 Tables. Originally submitted as white paper for the National Academies Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics 2024-2033