The plot shows curves on the plane that yield the parameters of the simulated dust cluster. The dashed line represents the results from the mode analysis, the two solid lines are obtained by setting and . The crossmark is placed at the actual simulation parameter position ( and ). The dashed horizontal line indicates the mean interparticle distance.
functions for a measured dust cluster at . The solid curve is retrieved by intersecting the configurational temperature surface at the measured kinetic temperature of 493 K. The thick dashed line is obtained from the mode analysis of the cluster. The thin dashed line indicates the measured mean interparticle distance.
The different curves are obtained from a dust cluster under different neutral gas pressures. The pressure is color coded and increases from blue to yellow color just as in Fig. 9. The function values using the nearest-neighbor distances between the particles as a measure for are highlighted by squares.