Diagnostic methods are developed to measure the microparticle charge Q and two plasma parameters, electron temperature Te, and ion density ni, in the main plasma region of a dusty plasma. Using video microscopy to track microparticles yields a resonance frequency, which along with a charging model allows an estimation of Q and Te. Only measurements of microparticle position and velocity are req...

We present a method based on two broad-band colors to investigate the nature of the Extremely Red Objects (EROs), i.e., the galaxies selected to have very red optical-to-infrared colors. Dusty starburst and old ellipticals at redshifts between 1 and 2 appear to occupy two different regions of the J-K vs. I-K color diagram, allowing for an easy classification. This diagnostic was applied to a co...

A surprising observation in dusty plasma experiments is that the dust thermal energy density, P_{d}∝n_{d}T_{d}, is typically much greater than n_{d}T_{n} (where n_{d} and T_{d} are the dust density and temperature, and T_{n} is the neutral temperature), even though the dust particles would be expected to be in thermal equilibrium with the neutrals. We show here, theoretically and experimentally...

Strongly-coupled dusty plasmas often exhibit liquid behavior. Liquids behave as a viscous continuum in the hydrodynamic regime. However, in the kinetic regime of a liquid, viscous and elastic effects occur at the same time [1], i.e., the liquid is said to be viscoelastic. To characterize the viscoelasticity of a liquid, the complex viscosity, () = () i(), is often used, where the real a...

The Liouville equation is considered for relaxing dusty plasmas consisting initially of equilibrium electrons and ions as well as neutral dust particles. The plasmas relax then due to a collection ofelectrons and ions by dust particles. The free and collected electrons and ions are considered as a common subsystem described by the common whole distribution function. It is shown that this sub-sy...

Radiological findings were evaluated on a mass survey (70 mm films) in four villages where mining and processing of sepiolite have occurred for more than 100 yr, together with a clinical and radiological study in 63 sepiolite trimming workers in Eskisehir, Turkey. Mineral fiber-related pleural diseases were not detected in those people who were exposed to sepiolite dust. Although pulmonary fibr...

Instability of high frequency wave, such as, Langmuir wave (LW) is studied using fluid model in collisional and streaming dusty plasma with dust charge fluctuation. In irradiated dusty plasma, dust charge fluctuation is considered to be due to the combined effect of LW perturbation and photoelectron emission. The piled up electrons on a dust grain due to LW perturbation can be swept out by phot...

Using Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, solitons are investigated in a dusty plasma consisting of positive ion, negatively charged dust grain and Boltzmann distributed electron. Both compressive and rarefactive solitons are found to exist in the dusty plasma for fast and slow modes. Greater d Z ( d Z is the number of elementary charges residing on the dust grain) is found to yield higher amplit...