Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe
Whitepaper #377 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research; infrastructure/workforce/other programmatic. Additional topics: other basic research; outer heliosphere; other programmatic; space-based [...]
by Veerle Jasmin Sterken, Silvan Hunziker, Konstantinos Dialynas, Konstantin Herbst, Aigen Li, Lennart Robin Baalmann, Klaus Scherer, Peter Strub, Ralf Srama, Mario Trieloff, Michel Blanc, Maximilian Sommer, Michael Rowan-Robinson, Harald Krüger, Frederic Effenberger, John Richardson, David Malaspina, Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Mihaly Horanyi, Zoltan Sternovsky, Jonathan Slavin, Jeffrey Linsky, Seth Redfield, Andrew Poppe, Jamey Szalay, Carey Lisse, Elena Provornikova, Merav Opher, André Galli, Frank Postberg, Andrzej Czechowski, Priscilla Frisch, William Kurth, Mitchell Ming-Hsueh Shen, Thomas Chen, Zhengwei Hu, Gunter Stober, Ingrid Mann, Niels Ligterink, Jesse Alan Miller, Brian Fields, Jack Baggeley, and Pontus Brandt
Published onJul 31, 2023
Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe
We focus on the synergies between heliosphere and dust science and illustrate how to use interstellar dust (ISD) in the solar system as a tracer for the (dynamic) heliosphere properties. We discuss the potential role of cosmic dust in heliospheric physics. An Interstellar Probe with dust suite would bring great advances to ISD research, and can contribute, through the dust, to heliosphere science.
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