Modelling DESTINY+ interplanetary and interstellar dust measurements en route to the active asteroid (3200) Phaethon. (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Krüger, Harald; Strub, Peter; Srama, Ralf; Kobayashi, Masanori; Arai, Tomoko; Kimura, Hiroshi; Hirai, Takayuki; Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg; Altobelli, Nicolas; Sterken, Veerle J.; Agarwal, Jessica; Sommer, Maximilian; Grün, Eberhard
• Is Part Of: Planetary and space science. Volume 172(2019)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 42
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: Space sciences -- Periodicals; Atmosphere, Upper -- Periodicals; Sciences spatiales -- Périodiques; Haute atmosphère -- Périodiques; 523
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2019.04.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0032-0633

Abstract

Abstract: The JAXA/ISAS spacecraft DESTINY + will be launched to the active asteroid (3200) Phaethon in 2022. Among the proposed core payload is the DESTINY + Dust Analyzer (DDA) which is an upgrade of the Cosmic Dust Analyzer flown on the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn (Srama et al., 2011). We use two up-to-date computer models, the ESA Interplanetary Meteoroid Engineering Model (IMEM, Dikarev et al., 2005a, c), and the interstellar dust module of the Interplanetary Meteoroid environment for EXploration model (IMEX;Sterken et al. 2013; Strub et al., 2019) to study the detection conditions and fluences of interplanetary and interstellar dust with DDA. Our results show that a statistically significant number of interplanetary and interstellar dust particles will be detectable with DDA during the 4-years interplanetary cruise of DESTINY + . The particle impact direction and speed can be used to descriminate between interstellar and interplanetary particles and likely also to distinguish between cometary and asteroidal particles.