Identification by the Ulysses spacecraft of interstellar grains inside the planetary system provides a new window for the study of diffuse interstellar matter. Dust particles observed by Ulysses and confirmed by Galileo are more massive ($\geq 10^{-13} {\rm g}$) than the 'classical' interstellar grains. Even bigger grains ($\approx 10^{-7} {\rm g}$) were observed in form of interstellar meteors. We analyze the consequences of the plentiful existence of massive grains in the diffuse interstellar medium. Astronomically observed 'classical' interstellar grains can be described by a size distribution ranging from about 5 to 250 nm in radius (about $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13} {\rm g}$). Lifetimes of these particles, due to mutual collisions in inter...
Dust is a ubiquitous component of our galaxy and the solar system. The collection and analysis of ex...
Dust is an ubiquitous inhabitant of the interstellar medium, and leaves an unmistakable signature in...
Grain growth by accretion of gas-phase metals is a common assumption in models of dust evolution, bu...
In this paper we discuss the propagation of dust through the interstellar medium (ISM), and describe...
The gas-to-dust mass ratios found for interstellar dust within the Solar System, versus values deter...
We present the mass distribution of interstellar grains measured in situ by the Galileo and Ulysses ...
There is a growing body of evidence for the existence of large (>0.25 mum) dust grains in the inters...
In the early 1990s, after its Jupiter flyby, the Ulysses spacecraft identified interstellar dust in ...
Carbonaceous and silicate grains swept up, and betatron accelerated, by supernova-generated shock wa...
The purpose is to study an evolving system of refractory dust grains within the Interstellar Medium ...
This review summarizes the observational characteristics of those interstellar grains which are prev...
Shockwaves driven by supernovae both destroy dust and reprocess the surviving grains, greatly affect...
All the substance of the Earth and other terrestrial planets once existed in the form of interstella...
Galactic dust constitutes approximately half of the elements more massive than helium produced in st...
Hundreds of circumstellar disks in the Orion nebula are being rapidly destroyed by the intense ultra...
Dust is a ubiquitous component of our galaxy and the solar system. The collection and analysis of ex...
Dust is an ubiquitous inhabitant of the interstellar medium, and leaves an unmistakable signature in...
Grain growth by accretion of gas-phase metals is a common assumption in models of dust evolution, bu...
In this paper we discuss the propagation of dust through the interstellar medium (ISM), and describe...
The gas-to-dust mass ratios found for interstellar dust within the Solar System, versus values deter...
We present the mass distribution of interstellar grains measured in situ by the Galileo and Ulysses ...
There is a growing body of evidence for the existence of large (>0.25 mum) dust grains in the inters...
In the early 1990s, after its Jupiter flyby, the Ulysses spacecraft identified interstellar dust in ...
Carbonaceous and silicate grains swept up, and betatron accelerated, by supernova-generated shock wa...
The purpose is to study an evolving system of refractory dust grains within the Interstellar Medium ...
This review summarizes the observational characteristics of those interstellar grains which are prev...
Shockwaves driven by supernovae both destroy dust and reprocess the surviving grains, greatly affect...
All the substance of the Earth and other terrestrial planets once existed in the form of interstella...
Galactic dust constitutes approximately half of the elements more massive than helium produced in st...
Hundreds of circumstellar disks in the Orion nebula are being rapidly destroyed by the intense ultra...
Dust is a ubiquitous component of our galaxy and the solar system. The collection and analysis of ex...
Dust is an ubiquitous inhabitant of the interstellar medium, and leaves an unmistakable signature in...
Grain growth by accretion of gas-phase metals is a common assumption in models of dust evolution, bu...