Ion density waves driving the formation of filamentary dust structures
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| author | Mendoza, A. Martí, D. Jiménez Matthews, L. S. Saenz, B. Rodríguez Hartmann, P. Kostadinova, E. Rosenberg, M. Hyde, T. W. |
| author_facet | Mendoza, A. Martí, D. Jiménez Matthews, L. S. Saenz, B. Rodríguez Hartmann, P. Kostadinova, E. Rosenberg, M. Hyde, T. W. |
| contents | The PlasmaKristall-4 experiment on the International Space Station allows for the study of the 3-dimensional interaction between plasma and dust particles. Previous simulations of the PK-4 environment have discovered fast moving ionization waves in the dc discharge[1]. These ionization waves vary the plasma parameters by up to an order of magnitude, which may affect the mechanisms responsible for the self-organization of chains seen in the PK-4 experiment. Here, we adapt a molecular dynamics simulation to employ temporally varying plasma conditions in order to investigate the effect on the dust charging and electrostatic potential. In order to describe the differences between the average of the plasma conditions and the time-varying plasma condition, we present a model to reproduce the potential that takes into account the negative potential from the dust grain and the positive potential from the ion wake. |
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| spellingShingle | Ion density waves driving the formation of filamentary dust structures Mendoza, A. Martí, D. Jiménez Matthews, L. S. Saenz, B. Rodríguez Hartmann, P. Kostadinova, E. Rosenberg, M. Hyde, T. W. Plasma Physics The PlasmaKristall-4 experiment on the International Space Station allows for the study of the 3-dimensional interaction between plasma and dust particles. Previous simulations of the PK-4 environment have discovered fast moving ionization waves in the dc discharge[1]. These ionization waves vary the plasma parameters by up to an order of magnitude, which may affect the mechanisms responsible for the self-organization of chains seen in the PK-4 experiment. Here, we adapt a molecular dynamics simulation to employ temporally varying plasma conditions in order to investigate the effect on the dust charging and electrostatic potential. In order to describe the differences between the average of the plasma conditions and the time-varying plasma condition, we present a model to reproduce the potential that takes into account the negative potential from the dust grain and the positive potential from the ion wake. |
| title | Ion density waves driving the formation of filamentary dust structures |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19793 |