| Preface | p. xi |
| Plasmas and Dust | p. 1 |
| Plasmas as the fourth state of matter | p. 1 |
| Dust | p. 2 |
| Dusty plasmas | p. 3 |
| Basic properties | p. 5 |
| Analogies and differences | p. 6 |
| Reviews and books | p. 8 |
| Structure of the book | p. 8 |
| Charging Mechanisms and Experiments | p. 11 |
| Grain charging | p. 11 |
| Charging mechanisms for isolated grains | p. 15 |
| Standard model: primary charging | p. 15 |
| Secondary electron emission | p. 22 |
| Photo-emission | p. 25 |
| Electrostatic disruption | p. 26 |
| Field emission | p. 27 |
| Centrifugal disruption | p. 27 |
| Charging model for grain ensembles | p. 28 |
| Havens model | p. 29 |
| Charging in magnetized plasmas | p. 30 |
| Collisionless theory for infinite Debye lengths | p. 31 |
| Combined effects of space charge and collisions | p. 32 |
| Dusty plasma experiments | p. 33 |
| Plasma processing and etching | p. 34 |
| Charging experiments and dust modes | p. 34 |
| Single grain dynamics and planetary rings | p. 36 |
| Space Observations | p. 41 |
| Generalities | p. 41 |
| Noctilucent clouds and magnetospheric dust | p. 43 |
| Circumsolar dust rings and zodiacal light | p. 44 |
| Planetary rings | p. 46 |
| Jupiter | p. 47 |
| Saturn | p. 49 |
| Uranus | p. 55 |
| Neptune | p. 56 |
| Cometary plasmas | p. 58 |
| Interplanetary dust | p. 62 |
| Interstellar dust clouds | p. 65 |
| Multispecies Formalism and Waves | p. 67 |
| General framework | p. 67 |
| From Liouville to kinetic equations | p. 68 |
| Specific complications for dusty plasmas | p. 70 |
| Macroscopic fluid equations | p. 72 |
| Macroscopic averages | p. 72 |
| Continuity equations | p. 74 |
| Equations of motion | p. 74 |
| Pressure equations | p. 75 |
| Set of basic fluid equations | p. 77 |
| Conservation of charge | p. 78 |
| Maxwell's equations | p. 78 |
| Waves in multispecies plasmas | p. 79 |
| Introductory remarks | p. 79 |
| Equilibrium discussions | p. 81 |
| Linearization procedure | p. 82 |
| Linear parallel modes and equilibrium streaming | p. 84 |
| Arbitrary angles of wave propagation without streaming | p. 86 |
| General expressions | p. 86 |
| Oblique electrostatic modes | p. 87 |
| Perpendicular propagation | p. 88 |
| Electrostatic Modes | p. 89 |
| Introduction | p. 89 |
| Linear parallel modes in ordinary plasmas | p. 90 |
| Langmuir waves | p. 90 |
| Buneman instabilities | p. 91 |
| Ion-acoustic modes | p. 92 |
| Dusty plasma modes | p. 95 |
| Pioneering work on dust modified modes | p. 95 |
| Dust-ion-acoustic waves | p. 97 |
| Dust-acoustic waves | p. 98 |
| Two-stream and Buneman instabilities | p. 99 |
| General nonlinear wave theory | p. 102 |
| Arbitrary amplitudes and Sagdeev potential | p. 102 |
| Reductive perturbation theory | p. 109 |
| Korteweg-de Vries-type expansions | p. 111 |
| Modified Korteweg-de Vries-type expansions | p. 112 |
| Higher-order expansions | p. 113 |
| Expansion of the Sagdeev potential | p. 114 |
| Nonlinear dusty plasma modes | p. 116 |
| Solitons | p. 116 |
| Double layers | p. 119 |
| Oblique propagation | p. 121 |
| Upper and lower hybrid modes | p. 121 |
| Dust hybrid modes | p. 122 |
| Nonlinear developments | p. 124 |
| Collisional and kinetic effects | p. 124 |
| Electromagnetic Modes | p. 127 |
| Parallel electromagnetic waves | p. 127 |
| Dispersion law, resonances and cut-off frequencies | p. 127 |
| Whistler waves | p. 129 |
| Alfven waves | p. 129 |
| Cometary turbulence | p. 131 |
| Dusty plasmas | p. 133 |
| Dust whistler waves | p. 134 |
| Charged dust in cometary plasmas | p. 135 |
| Magnetosonic modes | p. 139 |
| Multispecies plasmas | p. 139 |
| Dusty plasmas | p. 140 |
| Reductive perturbation for nonlinear waves | p. 142 |
| Parallel propagation | p. 142 |
| Oblique and perpendicular modes | p. 147 |
| Fluctuating Dust Charges | p. 151 |
| Charge fluctuations | p. 151 |
| History | p. 151 |
| Continuity equations and attachment frequencies | p. 154 |
| Momentum equations | p. 156 |
| Charging frequencies | p. 156 |
| Parallel electrostatic waves with variable dust charges | p. 159 |
| Dispersion law in general | p. 159 |
| No dust dynamics | p. 163 |
| Langmuir modes | p. 163 |
| Dust-ion-acoustic modes | p. 166 |
| Dust-acoustic modes | p. 167 |
| Zero-frequency modes | p. 170 |
| Case studies: Rings of Saturn | p. 170 |
| Implications for other electrostatic modes | p. 172 |
| Kinetic theory and nonlinear developments | p. 173 |
| Kinetic treatments | p. 173 |
| Electrostatic solitons | p. 174 |
| Electromagnetic waves with variable dust charges | p. 174 |
| Nonlinear electromagnetic waves with variable dust charges | p. 179 |
| Oblique and perpendicular modes | p. 183 |
| Self-Gravitation | p. 185 |
| Janus faces of Jeans instabilities | p. 185 |
| Jeans (in)stabilities | p. 185 |
| Physics of the classic Jeans instability | p. 186 |
| Revisiting the Jeans swindle | p. 187 |
| Basic stationary state | p. 188 |
| Linear perturbations | p. 190 |
| Standard assumption of a uniform basic state | p. 192 |
| Local solutions | p. 193 |
| Global solutions | p. 194 |
| Caveat | p. 195 |
| Self-gravitation of dusty plasmas | p. 196 |
| Different aspects of gravitation | p. 196 |
| Other factors | p. 197 |
| Chronology | p. 198 |
| Jeans-Buneman modes | p. 199 |
| Global results | p. 199 |
| Cold and massive dust | p. 200 |
| Boltzmann electrons | p. 201 |
| Boltzmann electrons and ions | p. 202 |
| Oblique electrostatic modes | p. 203 |
| Magnetosonic Jeans modes | p. 204 |
| Inertialess electrons and ions | p. 204 |
| Alfven-Jeans modes in the absence of neutral gas | p. 205 |
| Charged and neutral dust | p. 208 |
| Interstellar dust | p. 210 |
| Summing up | p. 211 |
| Nonlinear modes | p. 212 |
| Mass and Size Distributions | p. 215 |
| Dust mass distributions | p. 215 |
| Parallel modes in a fluid description | p. 216 |
| Dust-acoustic modes | p. 216 |
| Continuous mass distribution | p. 220 |
| Circularly polarized electromagnetic modes | p. 224 |
| Nonlinear dust-acoustic modes | p. 225 |
| Kinetic equations for dust distributions | p. 226 |
| Other Modes | p. 227 |
| Inhomogeneous plasmas and mode coupling | p. 227 |
| Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and vortices | p. 228 |
| Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities | p. 228 |
| Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities | p. 229 |
| Vortex formation | p. 231 |
| Surface waves | p. 233 |
| Self-similar expansions | p. 234 |
| Lattice waves | p. 235 |
| Conclusions and Outlook | p. 239 |
| Comparison with observations | p. 239 |
| Spokes in Saturn's B ring | p. 239 |
| Planetary rings | p. 240 |
| Comets | p. 241 |
| Interstellar dust | p. 242 |
| Summing up | p. 243 |
| Outlook | p. 244 |
| Bibliography | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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