Interstellar particle size distributions obtained from the simulations for the various missions and orbit segments given in Table 1. Dashed vertical lines indicate the detection thresholds of the dust instrumentsassuming an average particle impact speed derived from the model, as discussed in Sect. 2 (Cols. 5 and 9 in Table 1). For the Cassini 2 interval the upper detection limit at approximately 0.35 μm particle radius for the CDA CAT is also shown.