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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 5.

Left: temporal variation due to PR drag of the semimajor axis (a) and eccentricity (b) of olivine-type particles with β = 0.3 starting with initial a = 70 au and e = 0.4 (blue lines) and β = 0.4 with initial a = 120 au and e = 0.7 (red). These initial conditions were motivated by the peak of the a and e distributions as illustrated in Figure 4. The shaded regions show the range of their radial motion a(1 − e) ≤ ra(1 + e). Right: temporal variation over 2 Myr of the semimajor axis (c), eccentricity (d) dotted lines, and radius (d) bottom solid lines of 1 (blue line) and 5 μm (red) photo-sputtered ice particles, launched with an initial semimajor axis a = 45 au and eccentricity e = 0.1. Small ice grains continuously gain energy and drift outwards out of the solar system, while bigger particles initially drift inward until their mass loss results in a large enough β to reverse the direction of their drift and eventually also leave the solar system.

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