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Dust in the Jupiter system outside the rings

Astrodynamics volume 3, pages 17–29 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

Jupiter is one of the major targets for planetary exploration, and dust in the Jovian system is of great interest to researchers in the field of planetary science. In this paper, we review the five dust populations outside the ring system: grains in the region of the Galilean moons, potential dust from plumes on Europa, Jovian stream particles, particles in the outer region of the Jovian system ejected from the irregular satellites, and dust in the region of the Trojan asteroids. The physical environment for the dust dynamics is described, including the gravity, the magnetic field and the plasma environment. For each population, the dust sources are described, and the relevant perturbation forces are discussed. Observations and results from modeling are reviewed, and the distributions of the individual dust populations are shown. The understanding of the Jovian dust environment allows to assess the dust hazard to spacecraft, and to characterize the material exchange between the Jovian moons, their surface properties and distribution of non-icy constituents.

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This work was supported by the European Space Agency under the project “Jovian Micrometeoroid Environment Model” (JMEM) (Contract No. 4000107249/12/NL/AF) at the University of Oulu, and by the Academy of Finland under the project “Earth and Near-Space System and Environmental Change”.

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Xiaodong Liu was born in Shandong Province in 1985. He received his B.S. degree in engineering mechanics from Shandong University, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in aeronautical and astronautical science and technology from Tsinghua University, in 2013. He received the grand prize for graduate students at Tsinghua University, and national excellent doctor thesis in the field of aeronautical and astronautical science and technology. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Astronomy Research Unit at University of Oulu, Finland. His research interest focuses on circumplanetary and interplanetary dust dynamics, tenuous planetary rings, estimate of dust hazard to spacecraft, and orbital dynamics around non-spherical bodies.

Jürgen Schmidt received his diploma degree in theoretical physics from the University of Saarbrcken in Germany, and his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is now a professor in the Astronomy Research Unit of the University of Oulu, in Finland. His research interests in the field of celestial mechanics focus on the dynamics of circumplanetary dust and dense planetary rings. He is the coinvestigator in the science teams of the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer, the Surface Dust Mass Analyzer of the Europa Clipper Mission, and the JANUS camera onboard the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

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Liu, X., Schmidt, J. Dust in the Jupiter system outside the rings. Astrodyn 3, 17–29 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42064-018-0031-z

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Keywords

  • cicumplanetary dust
  • interplanetary dust
  • stream particles
  • planetary rings
  • Europa plume
  • Jupiter
  • Galilean moons
  • Trojan asteroids
  • meteoroids
  • space debris