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Electromagnetic Effects on the Zodiacal Dust Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

E. Grün
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Postfach 10 39 80, 6900 Heidelberg − 1 (FRG)
G. E. Morfill
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Postfach 10 39 80, 6900 Heidelberg − 1 (FRG)

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Electromagnetic effects on charged zodiacal dust particles were investigated. It can be shown that: 1) stochastic variations induced by electromagnetic forces are unimportant for the zodiacal dust cloud except for the lowest masses, 2) systematic variations in orbit inclinations are unimportant if orbital radii are larger than 10 A.U. This is due to the solar cycle variation in magnetic polarity which tends to cancel out systematic effects, 3) systematic variations in orbital parameters (inclination, longitude of ascending node, longitude of perihelion) induced by electromagnetic forces inside 1 A.U. tend to shift the plane of symmetry of the zodiacal dust cloud somewhat towards the solar magnetic equatorial plane, 4) inside 0.3 A.U. there is a possibility that dust particles may enter a region of “magnetically resonant” orbits for some time. Changes in orbit parameters are then correspondingly enhanced, 5) the observed similarity of the plane of symmetry of zodiacal light with the solar equatorial plane may be the effect of the interaction of charged interplanetary dust particles with the interplanetary magnetic field. Numerical orbit calculation of dust particles show that one of the results of this interaction is the rotation of the orbit plane about the solar rotational axis.

Type
III: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

Morfill, G.E., and Grün, E., 1979, The Motion of Charged Dust Particles in Interplanetary Space. I. The Zodiacal Dust Cloud, Planet. Space Sci., to be published.Google Scholar