The dust halo of Saturn's main rings

• Applicant: Professor Frank Spahn, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2017 to 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 330226508

• Final Report Year: 2024

No abstract available

Publications

• 1:61 photonic lanterns for astrophotometry: a performance study. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(2), 1194-1208.
  Olaya, J.-C.; Leon-Saval, S. G.; Schirdewahn, D.; Ehrlich, K.; Haynes, D. M. & Haynes, R.
  
• A dusty road to connecting Saturn and its rings - preliminary results from Cassini CDA during the Grand Final Mission 2017, EGU Conference. (2018)
  H.-W. Hsu ... D. Schirdewahn & the CDA-team
  
• Behavior of a stochastic parametric oscillator with application to to dust particles originating in the inner Saturnian rings EPSC-DPS Congress 2018 in Berlin
  D. Schirdewahn & F. Spahn
  
• In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere. Science, 362(6410).
  Hsu, Hsiang-Wen; Schmidt, Jürgen; Kempf, Sascha; Postberg, Frank; Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg; Seiß, Martin; Hoffmann, Holger; Burton, Marcia; Ye, ShengYi; Kurth, William S.; Horányi, Mihály; Khawaja, Nozair; Spahn, Frank; Schirdewahn, Daniel; O.’Donoghue, James; Moore, Luke; Cuzzi, Jeff; Jones, Geraint H. & Srama, Ralf
  
• Stochastic charging as transport mechanism of Saturn’s ring rain, joint EPSC-DPS Congress 2019 in Geneve. (2019)
  D. Schirdewahn & F. Spahn
  
• Stability of a parametric harmonic oscillator with dichotomic noise. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 30(9).
  Schirdewahn, Daniel
  
• Ice Giants – The return of the rings, BAAS - abstracts. (2021)
  H.-W. Hsu ... D. Schirdewahn & the CDA-team
  
• Unmixing the Dust – Is There a Cleaning of Saturn’s Rings? Conference ”Dusty Visions”, Berlin 2023
  D. Schirdewahn, H.-W. Hsu & F. Spahn