Evolution and Detectability of Interplanetary Dust Streams
Abstract
The reduction of solar attraction by direct radiation pressure is thought to produce a cutoff in the mass of particles moving in circumsolar orbits. The size distribution of particles swept out of the solar system depends on the critical value of the radiation parameter beta. The critical value is examined on the basis of a rough model, assuming that the mass loss is proportional to the radiative energy input, i.e., to the rate of change of true anomaly, which is used to compute the variation of the mass population index for several comet-meteor associations.
- Publication:
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Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1007/3-540-07615-8_515
- Bibcode:
- 1976LNP....48..391K
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Dust;
- Interplanetary Medium;
- Solar System;
- Space Debris;
- Astronomical Models;
- Comet Tails;
- Particle Mass;
- Astrophysics