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A. L. Graps, E. Gruen (MPI-K)
We have investigated the electrostatic charging behavior of submillimeter-sized dust particles located in Saturn's magnetosphere. The charging effects we considered included electron/ion capture from the magnetospheric plasma, electron/ion capture from the solar-wind plasma, the photoelectric effect from solar radiation, and secondary electron emission from energetic electrons. Some of our results we will show are charging times, equilibrium charges and Debye shielding distances for particles located in different regions of Saturn's magnetophere, and we will discuss how those charging processes would change for nonspherical/fluffy particles. We also compare these charging processes to those in the Earth's magnetosphere.