Consequences of the inclination of the zodiacal cloud on the ecliptic

2008 ◽  
pp. 121-121
Author(s):  
R. Robley
Keyword(s):  
Zodiacal Cloud

Asteroid collisions as origin of debris disks: Asteroid shape reconstruction from BNAO Rozhen photometry

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S350) ◽  
pp. 451-453
Author(s):  
G. Apostolovska ◽  
E. Vchkova Bebekovska ◽  
A. Kostov ◽  
Z. Donchev
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Extrasolar Planets ◽  
Shape Reconstruction ◽  
Inversion Method ◽  
Debris Disks ◽  
Shape Parameters ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Photometric Observations ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Asteroid Surface

AbstractAs a result of collisions during their lifetimes, asteroids have a large variety of different shapes. It is believed that high velocity collisions or rotational spin-up of asteroids continuously replenish the Sun’s zodiacal cloud and debris disks around extrasolar planets (Jewitt (2010)). Knowledge of the spin and shape parameters of the asteroids is very important for understanding collision asteroid processes. Lately photometric observations of asteroids showed that variations in brightness are not accompanied by variations in colour index which indicate that the shape of the lightcurve is caused by varying illuminations of the asteroid surface rather than albedo variations over the surface. This conclusion became possible when photometric investigations were combined with laboratory experiments (Dunlap (1971)). In this article using the convex lightcurve inversion method we obtained the sense of rotation, pole solutions and preliminary shape of 901 Brunsia.

scholarly journals Collisional Evolution of the Inner Zodiacal Cloud

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Szalay ◽  
P. Pokorný ◽  
D. M. Malaspina ◽  
A. Pusack ◽  
S. D. Bale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Collisional Evolution

2.1.8 Sources of Interplanetary Dust: Asteroids

1976 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Dohnanyi
Keyword(s):  
Interplanetary Dust ◽  
Asteroid Belt ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Asteroidal Belt ◽  
Pioneer 10

AbstractThe asteroid belt is examined as a potential source of interplanetary dust. Using results from the Pioneer-10 experiments the relative contribution of asteroidal and cometary particles to the Zodiacal cloud is estimated using methods developed in earlier studies of meteoroidal collisions (collisional model). It is found that the contribution of asteroidal particles to dust in the asteroidal belt is small compared with the number density of cometary type particles. Similar conclusions apply to the Zodiacal cloud between the sun and the asteroid belt. When definitive criteria for differentiating between comets and asteroids become available, a reexamination of some of our conclusions may become necessary.The distribution of asteroidal rotations is analyzed; it is found that the gross features of the distribution can be reproduced using the collisional model.

scholarly journals Estimating the Asteroidal Component of the Zodiacal Cloud using the Earth's Resonant Ring

1996 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumita Jayaraman ◽  
Stanley F. Dermott
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Dust Cloud ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Direct Function ◽  
Size Frequency Distribution ◽  
Limited Size ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Asteroidal Dust

AbstractThe Earth's resonant ring is populated primarily by asteroidal dust particles because cometary particles have higher Poynting-Robertson drag rates and the Earth's resonances are not strong enough to trap them (Gomes, 1995). It has been shown that asteroidal particles in a limited size range from 5 — 30μm are responsible for the observed trailing/leading flux asymmetry caused by the trailing dust cloud embedded in the ring (Jayaraman and Dermott 1995). The magnitude of the flux asymmetry is a direct function of the area of dust in the ring, which in turn depends upon the number of asteroidal particles in the zodiacal cloud. Using a dynamical model of the ring and the background zodiacal cloud and estimating the surface area of dust needed in the ring to match the observed flux asymmetry in the 25 micron COBE waveband, we have calculated the fraction of asteroidal dust in the zodiacal cloud as a function of p, the slope of the size-frequency distribution of particles.

scholarly journals On The Gegenschein and the Symmetry Plane

1991 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
S. S. Hong ◽  
S. M. Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Plane ◽  
Outer Part ◽  
Ecliptic Plane ◽  
Dust Concentration ◽  
Zodiacal Light ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Extended Region

AbstractUsing 3-dim density models of the zodiacal cloud, we have calculated brightness of the zodiacal light over an extended region around the anti-solar point. The isophotal contours of the model Gegenscheins differ from each other, morphologically, to the degree that they can differentiate the competing density models. The recently reduced Gegenschein observations of 2° resolution clearly favour the ellipsoid-type models to the fan-types, and also suggest that the surface of the densest dust concentration in the outer part of the cloud has its ascending node at longitude 100 ± 20° and is inclined 2 ± 0°.5 with respect to the ecliptic plane.

scholarly journals The Zodiacal Cloud Complex

1991 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
A.C. Levasseur-Regourd ◽  
J.B. Renard ◽  
R. Dumont
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Symmetry Plane ◽  
Ecliptic Plane ◽  
Interplanetary Dust ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Zodiacal Light ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Cloud Complex ◽  
Two Populations

AbstractThe physical properties of the interplanetary dust grains are, out of the ecliptic plane, mainly derived from observations of zodiacal light in the visual or infrared domains. The bulk optical properties (polarization, albedo) of the grains are demonstrated to depend upon their distance to the Sun (at least in a 0.1 AU to 1.7 AU range in the symmetry plane) and upon the inclination of their orbits (at least up to 22°). Classical models assuming the homogeneity of the zodiacal cloud are no longer acceptable. A hybrid model, with a mixture of two populations, is proposed. It suggests that various sources (periodic comets, asteroids, non periodic comets...) play an important role in the replenishment of the zodiacal cloud complex.

On the Amount of Dust in the Asteroid Belt

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 389-393
Author(s):  
Fred L. Whipple
Keyword(s):  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Asteroid Belt ◽  
Space Vehicles ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Small Particles ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Upper Limits

Calculations of upper limits to the quantity of small particles in the asteroid belt are based on (1) the brightness of the counterglow coupled with observations and theory for the zodiacal cloud near Earth's orbit and (2) the destruction and erosion of asteroidal particles as they spiral toward the Sun because of solar radiation via the Poynting-Robertson effect. These calculations place the likely upper limit on asteroidal space particle density at the order of 5 to 10 times and the hazard to space vehicles at 2 to 4 times those near Earth's orbit. No such evidence indicates, however, that the hazard from small particles is actually much greater in the asteroid belt.

scholarly journals Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A probe of Extragalactic Background Light from reionization

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 482-488
Author(s):  
Asantha Cooray ◽  
Jamie Bock ◽  
Mitsunobu Kawada ◽  
Brian Keating ◽  
Andrew Lange ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Band ◽  
Narrow Band Imaging ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Imaging Spectrometer ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Spectroscopy Experiment ◽  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background ◽  
Imaging And Spectroscopy

AbstractThe Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) is a rocket-borne absolute photometry imaging and spectroscopy experiment optimized to detect signatures of first-light galaxies present during reionization in the unresolved IR background. CIBER-I consists of a wide-field two-color camera for fluctuation measurements, a low-resolution absolute spectrometer for absolute EBL measurements, and a narrow-band imaging spectrometer to measure and correct scattered emission from the foreground zodiacal cloud. CIBER-I was successfully flown in February 2009 and July 2010 and four more flights are planned by 2014, including an upgrade (CIBER-II). We propose, after several additional flights of CIBER-I, an improved CIBER-II camera consisting of a wide-field 30 cm imager operating in 4 bands between 0.5 and 2.1 microns. It is designed for a high significance detection of unresolved IR background fluctuations at the minimum level necessary for reionization. With a FOV 50 to 2000 times larger than existing IR instruments on satellites, CIBER-II will carry out the definitive study to establish the surface density of sources responsible for reionization.

Light scattering by small particles in the zodiacal cloud

1965 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 346 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Little ◽  
B. J. O'Mara ◽  
L. H. Aller
Keyword(s):  
Light Scattering ◽  
Small Particles ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud
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