The Astrophysical Dust Group focuses on the science of cosmic dust nearby and inside the solar system and is based on the European Research Council Starting Grant “ASTRODUST: The Heliosphere and the Dust: Characterization of the Solar and Interstellar Neighbourhood”. The project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº851544. Read more about our research.
Impacts of cosmic dust particles can be measured with the plasma wave antenna instrument onboard the Wind spacecraft at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L1. Using these data, we discovered signatures of the solar rotation in the dust impact data, finding another synergy between dust science and heliophysics.
Megha Choudhary and Alessandra Bergese, Master’s students in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, have been selected to present their work at the upcoming Space Cost Engineering Conference
