Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xm8r8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-22T18:54:38.707Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Methods, Difficulties, and First Results in Laboratory Simulation of Cosmic Dust Electric Charging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. Svestka  and
E. Grün
J. Svestka
Affiliation:
Prague Observatory, Petrin 205, 118 46 Prague 1, Czechoslovakia
E. Grün
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fär Kernphysik, 6900 Heidelberg 1, Germany

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Particles of radii 0.2 to 3 μm and of different materials were suspended in an electrodynamic quadrupole inside a vacuum chamber and exposed to beams of electrons and ions of energies up to 20 keV and 5 keV, respectively, with the aim to simulate electric charging of cosmic dust particles. It was found that the equilibrium surface electrostatic potential of glass particles of radii 0.2 to 2 μ charged by electrons of energies 1 to 20 keV is always positive. This can be explained by secondary electron emission at lower energies of electrons and by penetration of electrons through particles with subsequent secondary electron emission mainly from the exit side at higher energies. In case of charging by ions electrostatic potential of particles is generally much lower than expected values and interpretation of results of measurement is more complicated. The most promising way to eliminate instrumental influences disturbing processes of charging seems to be a construction of a smaller suspension system in which these influences would be negligible. Parameters of such a suspension system were derived from results of measurements.

Type
Circumplanetary Dust: Collisional and Electrostatic Processes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 367 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

References

Boehnhardt, H. and Fechtig, H. (1987) ’Electrostatic charging and fragmentation of dust near P/Giacobini-Zinner and P/Halley’, Astron. Astrophys. 187, 824–828.Google Scholar
Grim, E., Morfill, G.E. and Mendis, D.A. (1984) ’Dust-magnetosphere interactions’, in Greenberg, R. and Brahic, A. (eds.), Planetary Rings, Univ. of Arizona Press, Tuscon, pp. 275–332.Google Scholar
Hashimov, N.M. and Tarakanov, V.L. (1982) ’Surface charge influence on sublimation rates of icy grains and cometary nuclei’, Komety i Meteory 32, 3–9.(in Russian)Google Scholar
Morfill, G.E., Grün, E. and Leinert, C. (1986) ’The interaction of solid particles with the interplanetary medium’, in Marsden, R. G. (ed.), The Sun and the Heliosphere in Three Dimensions, D. Reidel Publishing Co., , Dordrecht, pp. 455–474.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pinter, S., Svestka, J. and E., Grün (1990) ’Interaction of dust particles with electrons and ions’, in Bussoletti, E. and Vittone, A. A. (eds.), Dusty Objects in the Universe, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 139–146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Svestka, J., Grün, E., Pinter, S. and Schumacher, S. (1987) ’Laboratory charging of dust by electrons and ions’, Publ., of Astron. Inst, of Czechoslovak Academy of Sci. 67, 277–280.Google Scholar
Whipple, E. C. (1981) ’Potentials of surfaces in space’, Rev. Prog. Phys. 44, 1197–1250.Google Scholar