Publications

First-author publications (refereed)

• Interstellar dust in the solar system

  V.J. Sterken, A.J. Westphal, N. Altobelli, D. Malaspina, F. Postberg, 2019

  Space Science Reviews, 215, Issue 7, id. 43, 32 pp. (refereed book chapter). DOI: 10.1007/s11214-019-0607-9

  Review paper about interstellar dust in the solar system, including in situ observations, missions, and dust trajectory simulations.

• Sixteen years of Ulysses Interstellar Dust Measurements in the Solar System. III. Simulations and data unveil new insights into local Interstellar Dust.

  V.J. Sterken, P. Strub, H. Krüger, R. von Steiger, P. Frisch, 2015

  ApJ, 812, Issue 2, 141, 24 pp.

  This publication is part of a trilogy on the complete 16-year Ulysses interstellar dust data analysis and interpretation [Krüger-Strub-Sterken]. It presents the comparison of simulations of interstellar dust dynamics with 16 years of in situ data by the Ulysses mission. It poses the hypothesis that an extra filtering in the outer heliosphere must take place in addition to closerby in the solar system, since either the first half of the data can be understood, or the last, but not both simultanously. Also, the small interstellar dust seems compact, while the larger dust seems more porous or "fluffy" - as seen from their dynamics point of view - if a fit for the complete time-series with a future model can be found. 

   

Selected co-author publications (refereed)

• A Multi-Purpose Heliophysics L4 Mission

  Posner, A., et al.

  Space Weather, Volume 19, Issue 9, article id. e02777.

  This publication presents a mission concept, SunCHASER, to observe the West-limb of the Sun from the Lagrange point L4 which is necessary for ionizing events prediction and monitoring for interplanetary travel to the Moon and Mars, and for space weather events near the Earth. The mission concept has a dust detector on the ram side direction of the spacecraft, for research on interstellar and interplanetary dust. 

• A cosmic dust detection suite for the deep space Gateway.

  Wozniakiewicz, P. J., et al

  Advances in Space Research, Volume 68, Issue 1, p. 85-104.

  This publication describes dust detection and sample return technologies for on the Lunar Gateway near the Moon. 

Selected conference proceedings

• Meteor storms and showers with the IMEX model.

  R.H. Soja, et al.

  Proceedings of the IMC, Mistelbach, 2015

  This proceedings paper describes the IMEX cometary dust streams model and its comparison with meteor storms and showers on Earth. Solar gravitation, radiation pressure and Poynting-Robertson effects are taken into account but no Lorentz force as the grain size lower limit is 100 micrometer in this model. 

• Comparative analysis of the ESA and NASA interplanetary meteoroid environment models

  E. Grün, R. Srama, M. Horanyi, H. Krüger, R. Soja, V. Sterken, Z. Sternovsky, P. Strub

  6th European Conference on Space Debris, ESA/ESOC Darmstadt, Germany, 22-25 April 2013

  Comparative analysis of the ESA and NASA interplanetary meteoroid environment models