Heidelberg Dust Research Group

Latest News:

• Cassini finding hints at ocean within Saturn’s moon Enceladus (ESA)
• CDA found: Liquid Water Below the Enceladus Surface (25 June 2009)
• Post-Doctoral Scientist Position at MPS (application before 1 July 2009)
• Saturns Ringe, Monde und Eisvulkane a movie presented at the open house
• Cassini detect a dust ring around Saturn's icy moon Rhea
• See what CDA has 'seen' during an eccentricity scan of the E ring
• Congratulations to Prof. Eberhard Grün for the COSPAR Space Science Award
• Cassini at Enceladus - Science special issue
• press release of the Max-Planck-Society about geysers on Enceladus
• Composition of Jovian stream particles
• Cassini findings suggest complex story of venting at the south pole of Enceladus
• Cassini traverses a plume on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
• Cassini arrives at Saturn: measurements of E Ring particles by CDA
• CDA detects stream particles originating from Saturn
• In-situ measurements in Jupiter's gossamer ring: First Results
• Congratulations to Prof. Eberhard Grün for the Kuiper-prize 2002
• Interplanetary Dust Book
• Galactic DUNE: A mission for galactic dust measurements near Earth

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• Supporting material for the Enceladus flyby
• statistics of CDA dust impacts
• Cassini's orbits at Saturn
• CDA data (restricted access)
• inner E ring data (restricted access)
• Wiki page of the Dustgroup
• CDA XM tour analysis
• CDA XXM tour analysis
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Latest Papers:

• Discriminating Contamination from Particle Components in Spectra of Cassini's Dust Detector CDA Planetary and Space Science, (in press), (2009)
• Observation of Saturnian stream particles in the interplanetary space Icarus, (in press), (2009)
• TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission Experimental Astronomy, 23, (2009)
• Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus Nature, 459, (2009)
• Laboratory calibration measurements of a piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate cosmic dust detector at low velocities Advances in Space Research, 43, (2009)
• Characteristics of piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate multilayered detector bombarded with hypervelocity iron particles Advances in Space Research, 43, (2009)
• Identification of Saturn's magnetospheric regions and associated plasma processes: Synopsis of Cassini observations during orbit insertion Reviews of Geophysics, 46, (2008)
• Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures Nature, 451, (2008)
• Interpretation of high rate dust measurements with the Cassini dust detector CDA Planetary and Space Science, 56, (2008)
• Characteristics of a dust trajectory sensor Review of Scientific Instruments, 79, (2008)
• DuneXpress Experimental Astronomy, 23, (2009)
• Sample return of interstellar matter (SARIM) Experimental Astronomy, 23, (2009)
• The E-ring in the vicinity of Enceladus. II. Probing the moon's interior—The composition of E-ring particles Icarus, 193, (2008)
• The E ring in the vicinity of Enceladus. I. Spatial distribution and properties of the ring particles Icarus, 193, (2008)
• Measurement of temperature after hypervelocity collision of microparticles in the range from 10 to 40 km/s Applied Physics Letters, 93, (2008)
• Interstellar Dust Inside and Outside the Heliosphere Space Science Reviews, 153, (2008)
• The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest Icy Moon, Rhea Science, 319, (2008)
• Interstellar Dust in the Solar System Space Science Review, 130, (2007)
• Interplanetary dust detected by the cassini CDA chemical analyser Icarus, 190,643-654, (2007)
• The source of Saturn's G Ring Science, 317,653-656, (2007)
• DuneXpress, in situ analysis of interstellar dust Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71,A358, (2007)
• Cassini/Cosmic Dust Analyzer in situ dust measurements between Jupiter and Saturn Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 112, (2007)
• The composition of Saturn's E ring Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 377, (2007)
• Interstellar dust in the solar system Space Science Reviews, 130, (2007)
• Large area mass analyzer instrument for the chemical analysis of interstellar dust particles Review of Scientific Instruments, 78, (2007)
• COSIMA - High resolution time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer for the analysis of cometary dust particles onboard Rosetta Space Science Reviews, 128, (2007)
• Dust environment modelling of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Space Science Reviews, 128, (2007)
• Rosetta Radio Science Investigations (RSI) Space Science Reviews, 128, (2007)