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Context. We present the COMetary dust TAIL Simulator (COMTAILS), a numerical Monte Carlo code to generate images of dust tail brightness from comets and active asteroids in the Solar System. Aims. We describe a numerical code, available to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Fernando Moreno

Dust is an important constituent in cometary comae; its analysis is one of the major objectives of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G). Several instruments aboard Rosetta are dedicated to studying various aspects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 Jessica Agarwal , Michael Mueller , Eberhard Gruen

Aims. In this work, we present an extended study of the dust environment of a sample of short period comets and their dynamical history. With this aim, we characterized the dust tails when the comets are active, and we made a statistical…

Over the past decade, studies of dust in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) have shown radial variations in the dust emissivity index ($\beta$). Understanding the astrophysical reasons behind these radial variations may give clues about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 G. Athikkat-Eknath , S. A. Eales , M. W. L. Smith , A. Schruba , K. A. Marsh , A. P. Whitworth

Imaging polarimetry enables the spatially resolved investigation of cometary dust properties across different morphological structures. While cometary comae have been studied thoroughly in the pertinent literature, cometary tails have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Mirza Arnaut , Christian Wöhler , Pritish Halder , Goldy Ahuja , Shashikiran Ganesh , Megha Bhatt

Dust particle sizes constrained from dust continuum and polarization observations by radio interferometry are inconsistent by at least an order of magnitude. Motivated by porous dust observed in small Solar System bodies (e.g., from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Takahiro Ueda , Akimasa Kataoka , Anibal Sierra , Carlos Carrasco-González , Enrique Macías

The chapter overviews the recent developments in the remote sensing of cometary dust using visible, near-infrared, and thermal-infrared radiation, as well as interaction of the dust with electromagnetic radiation, which affects the dynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 ludmilla Kolokolova , Michael S. P. Kelley , Hiroshi Kimura , Thiem Hoang

Dust growth is often indirectly inferred observationally in star-forming environments, theoretically predicted to produce mm-sized particles in circumstellar discs, and also presumably witnessed by the predecessors of the terrestrial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Matthäus Schulik , Bertram Bitsch , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts

In this study, we numerically investigated the orbital evolution of cometary dust particles, with special consideration of the initial size frequency distribution (SFD) and different evolutionary tracks according to initial orbit and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hongu Yang , Masateru Ishiguro

We model the infrared emission from zodiacal dust detected by the IRAS and COBE missions, with the aim of estimating the relative contributions of asteroidal, cometary and interstellar dust to the zodiacal cloud. Our most important result…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-03 Michael Rowan-Robinson , Brian May

We dendrogram the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map, leveraging its $\sim 1$ pc spatial resolution to produce a uniform catalog of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood. Using accurate distances, we measure the properties of 65 clouds in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Shlomo Cahlon , Catherine Zucker , Alyssa Goodman , Charles Lada , João Alves

We present the first high-resolution sub-mm survey of both dust and gas for a large population of protoplanetary disks. Characterizing fundamental properties of protoplanetary disks on a statistical level is critical to understanding how…

(Abridged) Using an efficient computational approach, we have reconstructed the structure of the dust cloud in the Solar system between 0.5 and 100 AU produced by the Kuiper belt objects. Our simulations offer a 3-D physical model of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick N. Gorkavyi , Leonid M. Ozernoy , Tanya Taidakova , John C. Mather

The most successful model of comet dust presents comet particles as aggregates of submicron grains. It qualitatively explains the spectral and angular change in the comet brightness and polarization and is consistent with the thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Kolokolova , H. Kimura

We present a study of the circumstellar environment of IRAS 04158+2805 based on multi-wavelength observations and models. Images in the optical and near-infrared, a polarisation map in the optical, and mid-infrared spectra were obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Glauser , F. Ménard , C. Pinte , G. Duchêne , M. Güdel , J. -L. Monin , D. L. Padgett

Recent observations of the size-frequency distribution of zodiacal cloud particles obtained from the cratering record on the LDEF satellite (Love and Brownlee 1993) reveal a significant large particle population (100 micron diameter or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Grogan , S. F. Dermott , D. D. Durda

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

We report ALMA Cycle 2 observations of 230 GHz (1.3 mm) dust continuum emission, and $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O J = 2-1 line emission, from the Upper Scorpius transitional disk [PZ99] J160421.7-213028, with an angular resolution of…

Composition of Comet dust obtained by the dust impact analyser on the Halley probes indicated that the comet dust is a mixure of silicate and carbonaceous material. The collected interplanetary dust particles (IDP's) are fluffy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ranjan Gupta , D. B. Vaidya , J. S. Dobbie , P. Chylek