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It has often been suggested that an alternative to the standard CO/21-cm method for estimating the mass of the interstellar medium (ISM) in a galaxy might be to estimate the mass of the ISM from the continuum dust emission. In this paper,…

The Ulysses spacecraft is orbiting the Sun on a highly inclined ellipse ($ i = 79^{\circ}$, perihelion distance 1.3 AU, aphelion distance 5.4 AU). Between January 1996 and December 1999 the spacecraft was beyond 3 AU from the Sun and…

Interstellar dust (ISD) particles penetrate the solar system due to the relative motion of the Sun and the local interstellar cloud. Before entering the heliosphere, they pass through the heliospheric interface - the region of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 E. A. Godenko , V. V. Izmodenov

Cometary meteoroid trails exist in the vicinity of comets, forming fine structure of the interplanetary dust cloud. The trails consist predominantly of cometary particles with sizes of approximately 0.1 mm to 1 cm which are ejected at low…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Harald Krüger , Peter Strub , Max Sommer , Nicolas Altobelli , Hiroshi Kimura , Ann-Kathrin Lohse , Eberhard Grün , Ralf Srama

Spacecraft investigations during the last ten years have vastly improved our knowledge about dust in the Jovian system. All Galilean satellites, and probably all smaller satellites as well, are sources of dust in the Jovian system. In-situ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Krueger , Eberhard Gruen

Context. Three kilometer-sized interstellar objects (ISOs) have been detected transiting the Solar System, and spacecraft have directly measured micrometer-scale interstellar dust (ISD). Yet no intermediate-size interstellar meteoroids have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Eloy Peña-Asensio , Darryl Z. Seligman

The regions in which stellar winds interact with the interstellar medium, also known as astrospheres, can be observed in detail through the thermal emission of the interstellar dust particles, resided in plasma. Interstellar dust is also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 I. P. Zabolotnyi , V. V. Izmodenov

Dust measurements in the outer solar system are reviewed. Only the plasma wave instrument on board Voyagers 1 and 2 recorded impacts in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt (EKB). Pioneers 10 and 11 measured a constant dust flux of 10-micron-sized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eberhard Grün , Harald Krüger , Markus Landgraf

The presence of dust in the intracluster medium (ICM) has been a long-standing problem that is still awaiting elucidation. Direct observational diagnostics are rather challenging (though not impossible) either because of a sparse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-29 Yuri A. Shchekinov , Biman B. Nath , Evgenii O. Vasiliev

Interstellar dust has been detected in situ flowing through the heliosphere. However, our ability to derive the density and size distribution of the interstellar dust in the local interstellar medium from this directly detected dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-04 Jonathan D. Slavin , Marc Kornbleuth , Merav Opher , Gabor Toth

Tenuous dust clouds of Jupiter's Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have been detected with the in-situ dust detector on board the Galileo spacecraft. The majority of the dust particles have been sensed at altitudes below five…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald~Krüger , Alexander V. Krivov , Miodrag Sremčević , Eberhard Grün

We predict the amount of cometary, interplanetary, and interstellar cosmic dust that is to be measured by the Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) and the aerogel collector on-board the Stardust spacecraft during its fly-by of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Landgraf , Michael Müller , Eberhard Grün

We present the mass distribution of interstellar grains measured in situ by the Galileo and Ulysses spaceprobes as cumulative flux. The derived in situ mass distribution per logarithmic size interval is compared to the distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Landgraf , E. Gruen

The interstellar cloud surrounding the solar system regulates the galactic environment of the Sun and constrains the physical characteristics of the interplanetary medium. This paper compares interstellar dust grain properties observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. C. Frisch

Interplanetary dust in the inner solar system originates from multiple sources, including short-period comets and main-belt asteroids. In this work, we focus specifically on the dynamical evolution of asteroid-derived dust using N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Aanchal Sahu , Jayesh Pabari

Solar Orbiter provides dust detection capability in inner heliosphere, but estimating physical properties of detected dust from the collected data is far from straightforward. First, a physical model for dust collection considering a…

Dust modeling is crucial to infer dust properties and budget for galaxy studies. However, there are systematic disparities between dust grain models that result in corresponding systematic differences in the inferred dust properties of…