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Cosmic Dusty Plasmas: Some Recent Results

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Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory

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Abstract

Dust is an ubiquitous component of the cosmic plasma environment. It exists in the interstellar, circumstellar, interplanetary, circumplanetary and cometary environments. In each case it is immersed in a magnetized plasma and ultraviolet radiation environment. This leads the dust to be electrically charged and consequently coupled to the plasma by means of electrical and magnetic forces. Since this coupling becomes stronger as the grain size decreases, other things being equal, the recent in-situ detection of very small grains (VSGs with dimensions ≤ 100 Å) in the environment of Halley’s comet and the inference of their existence in the interstellar medium2 provide further impetus to the study of dustplasma interactions in space.

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Mendis, D.A., Rosenberg, M., Chow, V.W. (1994). Cosmic Dusty Plasmas: Some Recent Results. In: Kikuchi, H. (eds) Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1829-7_2

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