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New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter Observes Higher than Expected Fluxes Approaching 60 au

  • Authors: Alex Doner, Mihály Horányi, Fran Bagenal, Pontus Brandt, Will Grundy, Carey Lisse, Joel Parker, Andrew R. Poppe, Kelsi N. Singer, S. Alan Stern, Anne Verbiscer

Alex Doner et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 961 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

(a) The semimajor axis, a, distribution of the low-inclination (i ≤ 10°) KBOs (blue line), and of the newly released particles, a*, for β = 0.3 (green) and 0.4 (red); (b) The eccentricity distributions of parent bodies, e, and the new dust particles, e*; (c) the radial density distributions, each curve normalized to the total number of KBOs (2320) or dust particles (2290 and 2200); (d) the fraction of the ejected particles generated from all low-inclination KBOs as a function of β. The dots show the results of a full numerical solution of the equation of motion for various radii (measured in μm) olivine-type particles (Poppe 2016).

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