Production, Transport, and Destruction of Dust in the Kuiper Belt: The Effects of Refractory and Volatile Grain Compositions

Production, Transport, and Destruction of Dust in the Kuiper Belt: The Effects of Refractory and Volatile Grain Compositions

The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) on board the New Horizons spacecraft measures the spatial and size distributions of dust along its trajectory. Models based on early SDC measurements predicted a peak dust number density at a heliocentric distance of ∼40 au, followed by a rapid decline....

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Main Authors: Thomas Corbett, Alex Doner, Mihály Horányi, Pontus Brandt, Will Grundy, Carey M. Lisse, Joel Parker, Lowell Peltier, Andrew R. Poppe, Kelsi N. Singer, S. Alan Stern, Anne J. Verbiscer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Interplanetary dust
Astrophysical dust processes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adab75
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