The stardust dust flux monitor

McDonnell, J.A.M., Burchell, Mark J., Green, Simon F., McBride, Neil, Vaughan, B.A.M., Zarnecki, John C., Tsou, Peter, Hanner, M.S., Tuzzolino, Anthony J., Di Donna, F., and others. (2000) The stardust dust flux monitor. Advances in Space Research, 25 (2). pp. 335-338. ISSN 0273-1177. (doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00940-0) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:16927)

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Abstract

The Stardust mission is a NASA spacecraft to be launched in February 1999. It will flyby comet 81P/Wild-2 in December 2004, exposing aerogel samples capturing small particles as it does so. The aerogel will be returned to Earth in January 2006. The spacecraft is equipped with other sensors including a dust flux monitor. The dust flux monitor is a combination of low and high rate systems, a large area momentum sensor (LAMS) and PVDF sensors respectively, sensitive to different momentum ranges. This paper describes the dust flux monitor, including the laboratory calibration of the LAMS, modelling of the comet's dust emission and predictions of the impact flux on the dust sensors during the comet flyby. The predicted rates are such that a relatively close flyby is feasible without saturating the detectors. (C) 1999 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00940-0
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	I.T. Ekpo
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2009 10:00 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 09:52 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/16927 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Burchell, Mark J..

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Green, Simon F..

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McBride, Neil.

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