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Poynting-Robertson Effect and Collisions in the Interplanetary Dust Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Jan Trulsen  and
Arild Wikan
Jan Trulsen
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
Arild Wikan
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

Abstract

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A simulation model has been developed to study the results of the Poynting-Robertson (PR) effect and collisions on the dynamical evolution of an interplanetary dust cloud. Fragmentational and accretional effects are neglected. With a mean free collision time of the order of the PR lifetime collisional effects become of importance. As the individual grains still spiral inwards collisions act to make the mean eccentricity and inclination of the grain orbits both decrease at comparable rates, giving rise to an expanding fan shaped dust cloud.

Type
III: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 299 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

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