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A study is made of how equilibrium spherical dust structures depend on the volume ionization power, the neutral gas pressure, the number of trapped dust grains, and the ion-to-electron temperature ratio. It is shown that the structures are charged negatively and their charge is determined by the floating potential, which depends on the radius of the structure and on the ion temperature. The structures are charged mainly by absorbing a plasma flux. Conditions are determined under which the polarization fields and charges out-side the structures change sign, indicating the presence of overscreening effects, previously known only for individual dust grains. It is shown that overscreening outside the structures results exclusively from the plasma fluxes that are generated by the structure itself and are required to maintain it in equilibrium.
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Original Russian Text © V.N. Tsytovich, 2009, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 409–426.
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Tsytovich, V.N. Nonlinear equilibrium spherical dust structures II: Dependence of equilibrium states on volume ionization, number of trapped dust grains, and neutral gas pressure. Plasma Phys. Rep. 35, 368–384 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X0905002X
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