Articles | Volume 38, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-919-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-919-2020
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03 Aug 2020
Regular paper |  | 03 Aug 2020

Dust sputtering within the inner heliosphere: a modelling study

Carsten Baumann, Margaretha Myrvang, and Ingrid Mann

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Short summary
Dust grains exist throughout our solar system. This dust is subject to destruction processes like sublimation and sputtering. Sputtering is the erosion of dust through the impact solar wind and can be very effective near the Sun. We performed calculations to find out how important the sputtering process is compared to the sublimation of dust. Recently launched spacecraft will probe the proximity of the Sun and measure the dust population. Our work will help to understand these measurements.