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The Electrodynamics of Charged Dust in the Cometary Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Horanyi  and
D.A. Mendis
M. Horanyi
Affiliation:
Lunar and Planetary LaboratoryDepartment of Planetary SciencesUniversity of ArizonaTucson, Arizona 85721
D.A. Mendis
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

Abstract

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Dust in the plasma and radiative environment of a comet is necessarily electrically charged. This charging has both physical and dynamical effects on the dust, being particularly important on the smallest particles observed in the dust size spectrum. In this paper, these dynamical effects are reviewed and the pertinent observations are discussed.

Type
Section VI: Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 116 , Issue 2: Comets in the Post-Halley Era , 1991 , pp. 1093 - 1104
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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