Publications in VIVO

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Kempf, Sascha Associate Professor

Positions

Associate Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
Associate Professor, Physics

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Theoretical and experimental investigations of cosmic dust. Interaction of dust with the ambient plasma and dusty plasma effects in space. Formation and composition of cosmic dust. Dynamics of planetary rings. In-situ observation of dust. Theoretical and experimental investigation of impact plasmas. Laboratory hypervelocity impact experiments and space hardware development. Life detection via compositional analysis of surface material and/or ice plume particles

keywords

planetary science, cosmic dust, instrumentation for space missions, evolution and dynamics of cosmic dust, diffuse dust rings, impact physics, dusty plasmas

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) Onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission. 93-93. 2015
- Diffuse Rings. Ed. Esposito, Larry W. 511-536. 2009
conference proceeding
- A dusty road connecting Saturn and its rings - preliminary results from Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser during the Grand Finale Mission 2017
- Exploring Ocean-World Habitability within the Planned Europa Clipper Mission 2017
- Laboratory study of hyper-elocity impact-driven chemical reactions and surface evolution in icy targets 2017
- Laboratory study of hyper-elocity impact-driven chemical reactions and surface evolution in icy targets 2017
- The Age of Saturn’s Rings Constrained by the Meteoroid Flux Into the System 2017
- Enceladus Life Finder (ELF): A Proposed Mission to Assess the Habitability of a Plume-Bearing World. 4124-4124. 2017
- The Planned Europa Clipper Mission: Exploring Europa to Investigate its Habitability. 214.09-214.09. 2017
- Dust in the Outer Solar System as measured by Cassini-CDA: KBOs, Centaurs and TNOs as parent bodies?. EPSC2017-964. 2017
- Dust in the Outer Solar System as measured by Cassini-CDA: KBOs, Centaurs and TNOs as parent bodies?. EPSC2017-794. 2017
- Resolving the Mass Production and Surface Structure of the Enceladus Dust Plume. EPSC2017-818. 2017
- CDA in-situ measurements during Cassini’s F-ring plane crossings in 2017. 9882-9882. 2017
- Resolving the Mass Production and Surface Structure of the Enceladus Dust Plume. 11708-11708. 2017
- Colors of Enceladus: Plume Redeposition and Lessons for Europa. 2601-2601. 2017
- Complex Organic Macromolecular Compounds in Ice Grains from Enceladus. 1401-1401. 2017
- Joint Europa Mission (JEM). A Multiscale Study of Europa to Characterize its Habitability and Search for Extant Life. 2654-2654. 2017
- Laboratory Measurements of Hypervelocity Micrometeoroid Impacts into Frozen Water and Arginine Targets. 2777-2777. 2017
- Resolving the Mass Production and Surface Structure of the Enceladus Dust Plume. 2904-2904. 2017
- Surface Composition of Asteroids Measured Using a Dust Analyzer Instrument. 2908-2908. 2017
- The Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission: Synergistic Science to Investigate Habitability. 2732-2732. 2017
- Bombardment of Cryogenic Targets with Simulated Hypervelocity Micrometeoroids in the Lab 2016
- On Numerically Reproducing the Enceladus Plume 2016
- Understanding the E-ring puzzle (Invited) 2016
- Dust occultation at Titan measured by CDA onboard Cassini. 521.06-521.06. 2016
- Europa Habitability and Extant Life Exploration with Combined Flyby-Lander-Orbiter Mission. 4026-4026. 2016
- Explorer of Enceladus and Titan (E$^2$T): Investigating the habitability and evolution of ocean worlds in the Saturn system. 225.01-225.01. 2016
- Explorer of Enceladus and Titan (E$^2$T): Investigating the habitability and evolution of ocean worlds in the Saturn system 2016
- How much dust does Enceladus eject? 2016
- Looking for life in the plumes of ocean worlds 2016
- What We Have Learned from the LADEE Mission (So Far)? 2016
- The effects of dust outbursts on the anomalistic features observed by Rosetta Alice around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Proceedings of SPIE. 2016
- The Lunar Gas and Dust Exosphere as Revealed by the LADEE Mission. 6022-6022. 2016
- How much dust does Enceladus eject?. 18041-18041. 2016
- The SSERVI-IMPACT Dust Accelerator Facility at the University of Colorado. 1653-1653. 2016
- How much dust does Enceladus eject? 2016
- Laboratory Measurements of Micrometeoroid Impacts into Solid Ice and Gas Ablation Targets 2015
- Scientific Synergies from the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission 2015
- Calibration of the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer. EPSC2015-719. 2015
- Dust Impact Detection by the Cassini Langmuir Probe in Saturn’s E ring. EPSC2015-404. 2015
- Dust Populations in the Outer Solar System: 10 years of monitoring by CASSINI-CDA. EPSC2015-577. 2015
- Enceladus Icy Jet Analyzer (ENIJA) : Search for life with a high resolution TOF-MS for in situ characterization of high dust density regions. EPSC2015-769. 2015
- Exogenous dust delivery into the Saturnian system and the age of Saturn’s rings. EPSC2015-411. 2015
- LADEE Results: Implications for Exploration and Sciences. 2083-2083. 2015
- Compositional mapping of Saturn’s E-ring during Cassini’s flyby of Rhea. 13523-13523. 2015
- ENIJA : Search for life with a high-resolution TOF-MS for in-situ compositonal analysis of nano- and micron-sized dust particles. 13456-13456. 2015
- Photolysis and radiolysis of ice in Saturn’s E ring. 8637-8637. 2015
- The dust environment of the Moon as seen by the Lunar Dust Environment Eplorer (LDEX). 4296-4296. 2015
- Hyperdust : An Advanced in-situ Detection and Chemical Analysis of Microparticles in Space 2015
- LDEX Observation of the Dust Environment of the Moon. 1684-1684. 2015
- Modeling Europa’s Dust Plume. 2729-2729. 2015
- PADME (Phobos and Deimos and Mars Environment): A Proposed NASA Discovery Mission to Investigate the Two Moons of Mars. 2856-2856. 2015
- A LINEAR TOF MASS SPECTROMETER AS A TOOL FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT IONISATION PLASMA. AIP Conference Proceedings. 2011
- The Dust Accelerator Facility of the Colorado Center for Lunar Dust and Atmospheric Studies. AIP Conference Proceedings. 2011
- The flow of interstellar dust through the solar system: the role of dust charging. AIP Conference Proceedings. 2011
- Novel Instrument for Dust Astronomy: Dust Telescope. IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings. 2011
- Dust Transport from Enceladus to the moons of Saturn 2010
- Interaction of the solar wind and stream particles, results from the Cassini dust detector. AIP Conference Proceedings. 510-+. 2009
- Organic molecules in saturnian E-ring particles. Probing subsurface oceans of Enceladus?. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 317-+. 2008
- A trajectory sensor for sub-micron sized dust. Esa Sp. 213-+. 2005
- Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser: Composition of dust at Saturn. Esa Sp. 107-+. 2005
- Computed electric charges of grains with highly irregular shapes. Esa Sp. 177-+. 2005
- Laboratory tests of the Large Area Mass Analyser. Esa Sp. 209-+. 2005
- Preliminary results on analysis of the cosmic dust analyzer data between Jupiter and Saturn. Esa Sp. 65-+. 2005
- Prospects of dust astronomy missions. Esa Sp. 245-+. 2005
- Performance of an advanced dust telescope. Esa Sp. 171-176. 2005
- In-situ monitoring of interstellar dust in the inner solar system. AIP Conference Proceedings. 149-152. 2004
- Dust astronomy: A new approach to the study of interstellar dust (ESA SP-495). Esa Sp. 651-662. 2001
- Scientific objectives and technologies for the Solar Orbiter dust detector. Esa Sp. 315-319. 2001
- CDA cruise science: Comparison of measured dust flux at 1AU with models. 160-163. 2000
- Dust telescope: A new tool for dust research.. 181-194. 2000
journal article
- Surface deposition of the Enceladus plume and the zenith angle of emissions. Icarus. 33-42. 2019
- Measurements of the Potential Profiles of Glow Discharges Using an Emissive Probe. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 199-203. 2019
- In situ collection of dust grains falling from Saturn's rings into its atmosphere. Science. 49-+. 2018
- Determination of impact position on an impact ionization detector by electrostatic induction. Advances in Space Research. 890-895. 2018
- Impact ionisation mass spectrometry of platinum-coated olivine and magnesite-dominated cosmic dust analogues. Planetary and Space Science. 96-110. 2018
- Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus. Nature: New biology. 564-+. 2018
- Explorer of Enceladus and Titan ((ET)-T-2): Investigating ocean worlds' evolution and habitability in the solar system. Planetary and Space Science. 73-90. 2018
- Instrument concept of a single channel dust trajectory detector. Advances in Space Research. 1636-1641. 2017
- Sylph – A SmallSat Probe Concept Engineered to Answer Europa’s Big Question. 1-10. 2016
- An investigation into potential causes of the anomalistic feature observed by the Rosetta Alice spectrograph around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Acta Astronautica. 3-10. 2016
- LADEE/LDEX observations of lunar pickup ion distribution and variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 3069-3077. 2016
- Flux and composition of interstellar dust at Saturn from Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer. Science. 312-318. 2016
- New experimental capability to investigate the hypervelocity micrometeoroid bombardment of cryogenic surfaces. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2016
- Interplanetary magnetic field structure at Saturn inferred from nanodust measurements during the 2013 aurora campaign. Icarus. 10-16. 2016
- Modeling Europa's dust plumes. Geophysical Research Letters. 10541-10548. 2015
- Advanced In-Situ Detection and Chemical Analysis of Interstellar Dust Particles 2015
- Compositional Mapping of Europa’s Surface with SUDA 2015
- Dust impact detection by the Cassini Langmuir probe in Saturn’s E ring 2015
- Extracting lunar dust parameters from image charge signals produced by the Lunar Dust Experiment 2015
- Correlation between speed and size for ejecta from hypervelocity impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 1847-1858. 2015
- A permanent, asymmetric dust cloud around the Moon. Nature: New biology. 324-+. 2015
- Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus. Nature: New biology. 207-+. 2015
- The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) Onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission. Space Science Reviews. 93-113. 2014
- The science case for an orbital mission to Uranus: Exploring the origins and evolution of ice giant planets. Planetary and Space Science. 122-140. 2014
- Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission. Advances in Space Research. 2094-2100. 2014
- Calibration of relative sensitivity factors for impact ionization detectors Cross Mark with high-velocity silicate microparticles. Icarus. 336-345. 2014
- Properties of dust particles near Saturn inferred from voltage pulses induced by dust impacts on Cassini spacecraft. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2014
- Development of the nano-dust analyzer (NDA) for detection and compositional analysis of nanometer-size dust particles originating in the inner heliosphere. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2014
- On the application of a linear time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the investigation of hypervelocity impacts of micron and sub-micron sized dust particles. Planetary and Space Science. 47-57. 2013
- Application and calibration of a simple position detector for a dust accelerator. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 841-848. 2013
- Compositional analysis of interstellar dust as seen by the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. A120-A120. 2013
- Probing IMF using nanodust measurements from inside Saturn's magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters. 2902-2906. 2013
- The filtering of interstellar dust in the solar system. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2013
- Dust and spacecraft charging in Saturn's E ring. Earth, Planets and Space. 149-156. 2013
- On the applicability of laser ionization for simulating hypervelocity impacts. Journal of Applied Physics. 2012
- An optimum opportunity for interstellar dust measurements by the JUICE mission. Planetary and Space Science. 142-146. 2012
- Impact ionization mass spectra of anorthite cosmic dust analogue particles. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2012
- 3 MV hypervelocity dust accelerator at the Colorado Center for Lunar Dust and Atmospheric Studies. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2012
- Linear high resolution dust mass spectrometer for a mission to the Galilean satellites. Planetary and Space Science. 10-20. 2012
- SARIM PLUS-sample return of comet 67P/CG and of interstellar matter. Experimental Astronomy. 723-751. 2012
- Spacecraft charging near Enceladus. Geophysical Research Letters. 2012
- The flow of interstellar dust into the solar system. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2012
- Mapping Magnetospheric Equatorial Regions at Saturn from Cassini Prime Mission Observations. Space Science Reviews. 1-83. 2011
- The cosmic dust analyser onboard cassini: ten years of discoveries. CEAS Space Journal. 3-16. 2011
- Compositional mapping of planetary moons by mass spectrometry of dust ejecta. Planetary and Space Science. 1815-1825. 2011
- Stream particles as the probe of the dust-plasma-magnetosphere interaction at Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011
- A 2 MV Van de Graaff accelerator as a tool for planetary and impact physics research. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2011
- Cassini dust stream particle measurements during the first three orbits at Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011
- MODELING INTERSTELLAR DUST DYNAMICS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: APPLICATION TO Stardust. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. A223-A223. 2011
- A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus. Nature: New biology. 620-622. 2011
- A self-triggered dust trajectory sensor. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 74-82. 2010
- How the Enceladus dust plume feeds Saturn's E ring. Icarus. 446-457. 2010
- Observation of saturnian stream particles in the interplanetary space. Icarus. 653-661. 2010
- An Evolving View of Saturn's Dynamic Rings. Science. 1470-1475. 2010
- Mass spectrometry of hyper-velocity impacts of organic micrograins. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 3895-3906. 2009
- Discriminating contamination from particle components in spectra of Cassini's dust detector CDA. Planetary and Space Science. 1359-1374. 2009
- Fine jet structure of electrically charged grains in Enceladus' plume. Geophysical Research Letters. 2009
- Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus. Nature: New biology. 1098-1101. 2009
- DuneXpress. Experimental Astronomy. 981-999. 2009
- Sample return of interstellar matter (SARIM). Experimental Astronomy. 303-328. 2009
- TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission. Experimental Astronomy. 893-946. 2009
- IDENTIFICATION OF SATURN'S MAGNETOSPHERIC REGIONS AND ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROCESSES: SYNOPSIS OF CASSINI OBSERVATIONS DURING ORBIT INSERTION. Reviews of Geophysics. 2008
- Characteristics of a dust trajectory sensor. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2008
- The dust halo of Saturn's largest icy moon, Rhea. Science. 1380-1384. 2008
- Interpretation of high rate dust measurements with the Cassini dust detector CDA. Planetary and Space Science. 378-385. 2008
- Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures. Nature: New biology. 685-688. 2008
- The E ring in the vicinity of Enceladus - I. Spatial distribution and properties of the ring particles. Icarus. 420-437. 2008
- The E-ring in the vicinity of Enceladus II. Probing the moon's interior - The composition of E-ring particles. Icarus. 438-454. 2008
- interplanetary dust detected by the cassini CDA chemical analyser. Icarus. 643-654. 2007
- The source of Saturn's G Ring. Science. 653-656. 2007
- Cassini/Cosmic Dust Analyzer in situ dust measurements between Jupiter and Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2007
- The composition of Saturn's E ring. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1588-1596. 2007
- E ring dust sources: Implications from Cassini's dust measurements. Planetary and Space Science. 1024-1032. 2006
- In situ dust measurements in the inner Saturnian system. Planetary and Space Science. 967-987. 2006
- Modelling CDA mass spectra. Planetary and Space Science. 1007-1013. 2006
- The electrostatic potential of E ring particles. Planetary and Space Science. 999-1006. 2006
- Composition of jovian dust stream particles. Icarus. 122-134. 2006
- Cassini dust measurements at Enceladus and implications for the origin of the E ring. Science. 1416-1418. 2006
- DUNE-eXpress - Dust astronomy with ConeXpress. Advances in Space Research. 2093-2101. 2006
- Development of an advanced dust telescope. Earth, Moon, and Planets. 211-220. 2005
- Interstellar dust flux measurements by the Galileo dust instrument between the orbits of Venus and Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2005
- 2002 Kuiper prize lecture: Dust astronomy. Icarus. 1-14. 2005
- Composition of saturnian stream particles. Science. 1274-1276. 2005
- High-velocity streams of dust originating from Saturn. Nature: New biology. 289-291. 2005
- Cassini between Earth and asteroid belt: first in-situ charge measurements of interplanetary grains. Icarus. 317-335. 2004
- Cassini between Earth and asteroid belt: first in-situ charge measurements of interplanetary grains. Icarus. 317-335. 2004
- The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer. Space Science Reviews. 465-518. 2004
- Jovian dust streams: A monitor of Io's volcanic plume activity. Geophysical Research Letters. 2003
- Cassini between Venus and Earth: Detection of interstellar dust. Journal of Geophysical Research. LIS 7-1-LIS 7-9. 2003
- The charge and velocity detector of the cosmic dust analyzer on Cassini. Planetary and Space Science. 773-779. 2002
- First results from the cosmic dust aggregation experiment CODAG. Advances in Space Research. 497-503. 2002
- An effective algorithm for simulating diffusion-driven aggregation. Computer Physics Communications. 225-235. 2001
- Growth and form of planetary seedlings: Results from a microgravity aggregation experiment. Physical Review Letters. 2426-2429. 2000
- N-particle-simulations of dust growth - I. Growth driven by Brownian motion. Icarus. 388-398. 1999
- The cosmic dust aggregation experiment CODAG. Measurement Science and Technology. 836-844. 1999
- The Brownian motion of dust particles in the solar nebula: An experimental approach to the problem of pre-planetary dust aggregation. Icarus. 441-451. 1996
- COAGULATION SIMULATIONS FOR INTERSTELLAR DUST GRAINS USING AN N-PARTICLE CODE. Advances in Space Research. 55-58. 1995

Teaching

courses taught

PHYS 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019)
PHYS 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018)
PHYS 3330 Electronics for the Physical Sciences (Spring 2018)
PHYS 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)

Background

education and training

Dr. habil., Tech Univ of Braunschweig (Germany) 2009
Ph.D., University of Jena (Germany) 1999
B.A., Humboldt Univ of Berlin (Germany) 1994

International Activities

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