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We model the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Jupiter impact plumes to calculate synthetic plume views, atmospheric infall fluxes, and debris patterns. Our plume is a swarm of ballistic particles with one of several mass-velocity distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Joseph Harrington , Drake Deming

Context. Dust halos or shells, along with linear dark structures along the axes of dust tails, are commonly observed in many long-period comets near perihelion. Examples range from the recent C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) to historical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Fernando Moreno , Emmanuel Jehin

Understanding the collisional behavior of dust aggregates consisting of submicron-sized grains is essential to unveiling how planetesimals formed in protoplanetary disks. It is known that the collisional behavior of individual dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Sota Arakawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Eiichiro Kokubo

The massive outburst of the comet 17P/Holmes in October 2007 is the largest known outburst by a comet thus far. We present a new comprehensive model describing the evolution of the dust trail produced in this phenomenon. The model comprises…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Maria Gritsevich , Markku Nissinen , Arto Oksanen , Jari Suomela , Elizabeth A. Silber

Coagulation of dust aggregates plays an important role in the formation of planets and is of key importance to the evolution of protoplanetary disks (PPDs). Characteristics of dust, such as the diversity of particle size, porosity, charge,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 C. Xiang , L. S. Matthews , A. Carballido , T. W. Hyde

Data from H1 and ZEUS on the structure and the quark and gluon densities of the proton are discussed. A brief excursion is made into the field of inclusive diffraction by deep inelastic scattering. The comparison of e- p and e+ p scattering…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 Guenter Wolf

We consider the ability of three models - impacts, captures, and collisional cascades - to account for a bright cloud of dust in Fomalhaut b. Our analysis is based on a novel approach to the power-law size distribution of solid particles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Scott J. Kenyon , Thayne Currie , Benjamin C. Bromley

Context: Since circumstellar dust in debris disks is short-lived, dust-replenishing requires the presence of a reservoir of planetesimals. These planetesimals in the parent belt of debris disks orbit their host star and continuously supply…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Minjae Kim , Sebastian Wolf , Torsten Löhne , Florian Kirchschlager , Alexander V. Krivov

During the planetary formation process, mutual collisions among planetesimals take place, making an impact on their porosity evolution. The outcome of these collisions depends, among other parameters, on the tensile strength of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-17 I. L. San Sebastián , A. Dolff , J. Blum , M. G. Parisi , S. Kothe

An understanding of the post-impact dynamics of ejecta clouds are crucial to the planning of a kinetic impact mission to an asteroid, and also has great implications for the history of planetary formation. The purpose of this article to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Yang Yu , Patrick Michel , Stephen R. Schwartz , Shantanu P. Naidu , Lance A. M. Benner

With laboratory experiments we investigate the ejecta of low-velocity (~m/s) impacts into multi-scale granular media and compare them against ejecta from impacts into mono-scale media. Impacts are into a 50 cm diameter galvanized washtub…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-17 Esteban Wright , Emau Argueta , Wolfgang Losert

mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

(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

In recent electron-positron colliders designed and operated with very low emittance and high current, the energy density of the beam has increased significantly compared to earlier designs. Under these conditions, interactions between the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Kazuhito Ohmi , Hitoshi Fukuma , Shinji Terui

Dust is expected to form on a year timescale in core-collapse supernova (SN) ejecta. Its existence is revealed through an infrared brightening, an optical dimming, or a blue-red emission-line profile asymmetry. To investigate how the dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier , Arkaprabha Sarangi

Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was the target of a multi-wavelength worldwide investigation in 2005. The NASA Deep Impact mission reached the comet on 4.24 July 2005, delivering a 370 kg impactor which hit the comet at 10.3 km/s. Following this impact,…

For the investigation of collisions among protoplanetesimal dust aggregates, we performed microgravity experiments in which the impacts of high-porosity mm-sized dust aggregates into 2.5 cm-sized high-porosity dust aggregates can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Doreen Langkowski , Jens Teiser , Jürgen Blum

In a previous paper, some of us studied general relativistic homogeneous gravitational collapses for dust and radiation, in which the density profile was replaced by an effective density justified by some quantum gravity models. It was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Yue Liu , Daniele Malafarina , Leonardo Modesto , Cosimo Bambi

To study the evolution of protoplanetary dust aggregates, we performed experiments with up to 2600 collisions between single, highly-porous dust aggregates and a solid plate. The dust aggregates consisted of spherical SiO$_2$ grains with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 René Weidling , Carsten Güttler , Jürgen Blum , Frithjof Brauer

We carried out 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the common envelope binary interaction using the approximation of Bowen to calculate the dust opacity in order to investigate the resulting dust-driven accelerations. We have…