Dust in the Jupiter system outside the rings

Abstract

Jupiter is one of the major targets for planetary exploration, and dust in the Jovian system is of great interest to researchers in the field of planetary science. In this paper, we review the five dust populations outside the ring system: grains in the region of the Galilean moons, potential dust from plumes on Europa, Jovian stream particles, particles in the outer region of the Jovian system ejected from the irregular satellites, and dust in the region of the Trojan asteroids. The physical environment for the dust dynamics is described, including the gravity, the magnetic field and the plasma environment. For each population, the dust sources are described, and the relevant perturbation forces are discussed. Observations and results from modeling are reviewed, and the distributions of the individual dust populations are shown. The understanding of the Jovian dust environment allows to assess the dust hazard to spacecraft, and to characterize the material exchange between the Jovian moons, their surface properties and distribution of non-icy constituents.

17 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by Astrodynamics

References in corpus (8)

• Probing for Evidence of Plumes on Europa with HST/STIS
• Linking Europa's plume activity to tides, tectonics, and liquid water
• Dynamics and distribution of Jovian dust ejected from the Galilean satellites
• The Fate of Sub-micron Circumplanetary Dust Grains II: Multipolar Fields
• Dust arcs in the region of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
• The Rings of Jupiter
• Comparison of the orbital properties of Jupiter Trojan asteroids and Trojan dust
• Charging of small grains in a space plasma: Application to Jovian stream particles

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Distribution of dust ejected from the lunar surface into the Earth-Moon system
• Mass supply from Io to Jupiter's magnetosphere
• Motion of Dust Ejected from the Surface of Asteroid (101955) Bennu