Master’s Thesis finished

The first Master’s thesis on cosmic dust in the Astrodust group has been completed by Tranquillo Janisch. The report is titled “Deciphering the Ulysses dust measurements” and builds upon earlier work by two semester students of the Fach Hochschule Nord West Schweiz (FHNW) in 2020. Tranquillo has reproduced the fluxes, directions and mass distributions of the interstellar dust particles measured by Ulysses from the papers of Strub et al. 2015, and Krüger et al 2015, and then investigated the effect of some of these selection criteria and assumptions on the fluxes, directions and mass distributions. Congratulations Tranquillo!

P. Strub, H. Krüger, V.J. Sterken, Sixteen years of Ulysses interstellar dust measurements in the solar system.
II. Fluctuations in the dust flow from the data. Astrophys. J. 812, 140 (2015). external pagehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/139call_made

H. Krüger, P. Strub, E. Grün, V.J. Sterken, Sixteen years of Ulysses interstellar dust measurements in the solar system.
I. Mass distribution and gas-to-dust mass ratio. Astrophys. J. 812, 139 (2015). external pagehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/139call_made
external pagehttps://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06180call_made