For a single-stream dust tail with injection rate , monotone angular distance , and survival probability , the number per unit angle is . A vanishing angular drift creates an idealized density enhancement; velocity dispersion rounds it.
A zero of the angular drift in a cold single-grain-size dust tail produces a formally divergent number density per unit angle. The divergence is integrable when the exact local angle-to-age map is retained. A spread of launch velocities or radiation-pressure coefficients removes the singularity.
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