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Candidates for Asteroid Dust Trails

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2006

Abstract

The contribution of different sources to the circumsolar dust cloud (known as the zodiacal cloud) can be deduced from diagnostic observations. We used the Spitzer Space Telescope to observe the diffuse thermal emission of the zodiacal cloud near the ecliptic.

Several structures were identified in these observations.