Nanoparticles in the inner solar system |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan;2. 20 Kenrick Terrace, Newton MA 02458, USA;3. Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18 A, PL-00-716 Warsaw, Poland;1. Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France;2. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, India;3. National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan (ROC);1. Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;2. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France;3. CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France;4. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0PA, United Kingdom;1. Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Avenue Circulaire 3, Brussels, Belgium;3. Physics Department, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;4. Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Espoo, Finland;5. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden;1. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia;2. ICA, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska Road 9, 845 03 Bratislava, Slovakia;3. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (INTA), Ctra. Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 Torrejónde Ardoz, Madrid, Spain;4. Grupo de Óptica, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Cantabria, Facultad de Ciencias, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain;5. US Army Research Laboratory, AMSRD-ARL-CI-ES, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197, United States;1. State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, PR China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, PR China |
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| Abstract: | We discuss different scenarios for the formation and dynamics of nanoparticles in the inner solar system. Particles up to a few tens of nanometer size, if formed at a distance larger than several 0.1 AU from the Sun, are picked up by the solar wind and therefore do not reach the regions closer to the sun. At distances ⩽0.1 AU particles of several tens of nanometer in size can stay in bound orbits and, aside from the Lorentz force, the plasma and the photon Poynting–Robertson effect determine their spatial distribution. Local sources of nanometer-sized particles in the inner solar system are collisional fragmentation and sublimation of dust and meteoroids. The most likely materials to survive in the very vicinity of the Sun are MgO particles from the sublimation of cometary and meteoritic silicates, nanodiamonds originating from meteoroid material, and possibly carbon structures formed by thermal alteration of organics. The nanoparticles may produce spectral features in a limited spectral interval, and this spectral interval varies with particle size, composition and temperature. Bearing in mind the wide size distribution of solar system dust and the preponderance of larger particles, it is unlikely that nanoparticles can be detected in thermal emission or scattered light brightness and we are unable to predict observable features for these nanoparticles. If the nanodust produced observable features, they are most likely to appear in the blue or near infrared. We suggest a more promising option is the in situ detection of the particles. |
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