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A low cost meteor observation system using radio forward scattering and the interferometry technique
Waleed Madkour Masa-yuki Yamamoto Yoshihiro Kakinami Satoshi Mizumoto 《Experimental Astronomy》2016,41(1-2):243-257
We present a low cost meteor observation system based on the radio forward scattering and interferometry technique at Kochi University of Technology (KUT). The system can be a suitable model for low budget educational institutes that target practical learning of astronomical objects and upper atmospheric characteristics. The system methodology for the automatic counting of meteor echoes, filtering noise and detecting meteor echo directions is described. Detection of the meteor echo directions, which is the basic element for determining the meteor trajectories and the orbital parameters of parent comets, is based on a software system developed for analysis of phase differences detected by interferometry. Randomly selected observation samples measured by the radio interferometer are compared to simultaneous optical observations by video cameras to verify the system accuracy. Preliminary error analysis revealed that the system accuracy is directly related to the duration of observed meteor echoes. Eighty percent of meteor echo samples with durations longer than 3 s showed agreement in azimuth and elevation angles measurements to within a 10° error range, while meteor echo samples with shorter durations showed lower agreement levels probably due to the low system sampling resolution of 0.1 s. The reasonable agreement level of meteor echoes with duration longer than 3 s demonstrated the applicability of the system methodology. Accurate observation of shorter duration meteor echoes could possibly be achieved by improving the system resolution. 相似文献
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J. D. Mathews S. J. Briczinski D. D. Meisel C. J. Heinselman 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):365-372
Radio science and meteor physics issues regarding meteor “head-echo” observations with high power, large aperture (HPLA) radars,
include the frequency and latitude dependency of the observed meteor altitude, speed, and deceleration distributions. We address
these issues via the first ever use and analysis of meteor observations from the Poker Flat AMISR (PFISR: 449.3 MHz), Sondrestrom
(SRF: 1,290 MHz), and Arecibo (AO: 430 MHz) radars. The PFISR and SRF radars are located near the Arctic Circle while AO is
in the tropics. The meteors observed at each radar were detected and analyzed using the same automated FFT periodic micrometeor
searching algorithm. Meteor parameters (event altitude, velocity, and deceleration distributions) from all three facilities
are compared revealing a clearly defined altitude “ceiling effect” in the 1,290 MHz results relative to the 430/449.3 MHz
results. This effect is even more striking in that the Arecibo and PFISR distributions are similar even though the two radars
are over 2,000 times different in sensitivity and at very different latitudes, thus providing the first statistical evidence
that HPLA meteor radar observations are dominated by the incident wavelength, regardless of the other radar parameters. We
also offer insights into the meteoroid fragmentation and “terminal” process. 相似文献
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Lars Dyrud Derek Wilson Steiner Boerve Jan Trulsen Hans Pecseli Sigrid Close Chen Chen Yoonjae Lee 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):383-394
Recently, meteor head echo detections from high powered large aperture radars (HPLA) have brought new measurements to bear
on the study of sporadic interplanetary meteors. These same observations have demonstrated an ability to observe smaller meteoroids
without some of the geometrical restrictions of specular radar techniques. Yet incorporating data from various radar reflection
types and from different radars into a single consistent model has proven challenging. We believe this arises due to poorly
understood radio scattering characteristics of the meteor plasma, especially in light of recent work showing that plasma turbulence
and instability greatly influences meteor trail properties at every stage of evolution. In order to overcome some of the unknown
relationships between meteoroid characteristics (such as mass and velocity) and the resulting head echo radar cross-sections
(RCS), we present our results on meteor plasma simulations of head echo plasmas using particle in cell (PIC) ions, which show
that electric fields strongly influence early stage meteor plasma evolution, by accelerating ions away from the meteoroid
body at speeds as large as several kilometers per second. We also present the results of finite difference time domain electromagnetic
simulations (FDTD), which can calculate the radar cross-section of the simulated meteor plasma electron distributions. These
simulations have shown that the radar cross-section depends in a complex manner on a number of parameters. In this paper we
demonstrate that for a given head echo plasma the RCS as a function of radar frequency peaks at sqrt (2*peak plasma frequency)
and then decays linearly on a dB scale with increasing radar frequency. We also demonstrate that for a fixed radar frequency,
the RCS increases linearly on a dB scale with increasing head echo plasma frequency. These simulations and resulting characterization
of the head echo radar cross-section will both help relate HPLA radar observations to meteoroid properties and aid in determining
a particular radar facility’s ability to observe various meteoroid populations. 相似文献
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Werner Singer Ralph Latteck Luis Federico Millan Nick J. Mitchell Jens Fiedler 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):403-409
Many meteoroids burn up between about 120 km and 70 km, deposit metals and dust and form ionized trails which are detected
by radars. Model studies about the influence of neutral or positively charged background dust on the ambipolar diffusion indicate
that significant smaller decay times should be observed for weak meteor echoes compared to strong meteor echoes which can
affect the estimation of temperatures. The variation of meteor decay times in dependence on echo strength, height, and season
was studied using radar observations at 69° N, 22° S, and 67° S. Significantly reduced decay times were found for weak echoes
below about 88 km at low latitudes throughout the year, and at high latitudes with the exception of summer. In summer at high
latitudes, decreasing decay times of weak and strong meteors are observed at altitudes below about 85 km during the appearance
of noctilucent clouds. The impact of reduced decay times on the estimation of neutral temperatures from decay times is discussed. 相似文献
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Miloš Šimek 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1995,68(1-3):545-553
Diurnal variations of the median echo durations of sporadic meteor echoes during August and December-January periods are discussed. It is shown that differences between seasonal distributions result from the superposition of simultaneous diurnal effects controlling the electron loss processes in the ionized meteor trail. 相似文献
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Pavlo Kozak 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):277-283
Software named “Falling Star” has been developed for digital processing of double-station TV meteor observations. It was designed
for measurement and calculation of both kinematic and photometric parameters of faint meteors observed with any video system.
Data from video recordings are first digitized as standard AVI files, and then converted into the software’s TVS (TV sequence)
format. Additional astronomical information like date, time of observations, geographic position of point of the observation
and horizontal coordinates of TV camera optical axis orientation are added to the files. These parameters allow the right
ascension and declination of the optical center of camera for the moment of meteor flight to be calculated. “Falling Star”
includes a range of automated procedures for the identification of frame stars with star catalogues, search of movable meteor-like
objects inside frame, calculation of equatorial coordinates and photometry. Finally, meteor trajectory parameters, orbital
elements and brightness curves are calculated. Errors of calculations are determined using Monte-Carlo method. 相似文献
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This paper describes the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) that has been in operation since late 2001. CMOR is a 3 station meteor radar operating at a frequency of 29.85 MHz near Tavistock, Ont. To avoid bias against fragmenting meteoroids that is inherent in the traditional multi-station method of Gill and Davies (Mon. Not. R Astron. Soc. 116 (1955) 105), we use a completely geometrical method similar to that used in the AMOR system (Quart. J. R. Astron. Soc. 35 (1994) 293) based on the interferometric determination of the echo directions and the time delays of echoes from two remote stations to obtain the trajectories and speeds of meteoroids. We describe the hardware and some of the software and present some preliminary results that provide a good indication of present capabilities of the system. Typically, we can measure 1500 individual trajectories, and hence orbits, per day with a mean accuracy of 6° in direction and about 10% in speed. A small subset of these for which it is possible to measure the speeds using Hocking's (Radio. Sci. 35 (2000) 1205) method yield speeds with a precision of about 5%. The purpose of this paper is to show that the radiants and speeds necessary for the computation of orbits are well measured rather than to discuss any orbital surveys. 相似文献
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David D. Meisel Johan Kero Csilla Szasz Vladimir Sidorov Stan Briczinski 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):315-322
In the northern hemisphere, the month of February is characterized by a lack of major meteor shower activity yet a number
of weak minor showers are present as seen by the Kazan radar. Using the Feller transformation to obtain the distribution of
true meteor velocities from the distribution of radial velocities enables the angle of incidence to be obtained for the single
beam AO (Arecibo Observatory) data. Thus the loci of AO radiants become beam-centered circles on the sky and one can, with
simple search routines, find where these circles intersect on radiants determined by other means. Including geocentric velocity
as an additional search criterion, we have examined a set of February radiants obtained at Kazan for coincidence in position
and velocity. Although some may be chance associations, only those events with probabilities of association > 0.5 have been
kept. Roughly 90 of the Kazan showers have been verified in this way with mass, radius and density histograms derived from
the AO results. By comparing these histograms with those of the “background” in which the minor showers are found, a qualitative
scale of dynamical minor shower age can be formulated. Most of the showers are found outside the usual “apex” sporadic source
areas where it is easiest to detect discrete showers with less confusion from the background. 相似文献
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Peter S. Gural 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):269-275
An ever increasing variety of electronic instrumentation is being brought to bear in meteor studies and analysis, with unique
meteor detection challenges arising from the attempt to do automated and near real-time processing of the imagery. Recent
algorithm developments in the literature have been applied and implemented in software to provide reliable meteor detection
in all-sky imagers, wide-field intensified video, and narrow field-of-view telescopic systems. The algorithms that have been
employed for meteor streak detection include Hough transforms with phase coded disk, localized Hough transforms with matched
filtering, and fast moving cluster detection. They have found application in identifying meteor tracks in the Spanish Fireball
Network all-sky images, detailed analysis of video recordings during the recent Leonid meteor storms, and development of a
detection/cueing technology system for rapid slew and tracking of meteors. 相似文献
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Peter Brown Robert J. Weryk Daniel K. Wong James Jones 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):209-219
The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar is a multi-frequency backscatter radar which has been in routine operation since 1999, with
an orbit measurement capability since 2002. In total, CMOR has measured over 2 million orbits of meteoroids with masses greater
than 10 μg, while recording more than 18 million meteor echoes in total. We have applied a two stage comparative technique
for identifying meteor streams in this dataset by making use of clustering in radiants and velocities without employing orbital
element comparisons directly. From the large dataset of single station echoes, combined radiant activity maps have been constructed
by binning and then stacking each years data per degree of solar longitude. Using the single-station mapping technique described
in Jones and Jones (Mon Not R Astron Soc 367:1050–1056, 2006) we have identified probable streams from these single station
observations. Additionally, using individual radiant and velocity data from the multi-station velocity determination routines,
we have utilized a wavelet search algorithm in radiant and velocity space to construct a list of probable streams. These two
lists were then compared and only streams detected by both techniques, on multiple frequencies and in multiple years were
assigned stream status. From this analysis we have identified 45 annual minor and major streams with high reliability. 相似文献
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Presented are results of Perseid 1993 meteor shower from radar observation at Ondejov observatory. Investigation of the shower activity profiles in four echo duration intervals proved the position of dominant peak at solar longitude L = 138.°8±0.°05 (epoch 1950.0) followed by series of secondary maxima positions of which depend on examined echo duration class. Extremely low value of the mass distribution indexs = 1.27 ± 0.01 near the maximum activity peak associated with high proportion of fragmenting particles leads to the suggestion that meteor particles concentrated in this filament are younger than those which form the other parts of the stream. 相似文献
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The September 2007 encounter of Earth with the 1-revolution dust trail of comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess) is the most highly anticipated
dust trail crossing of a known long period comet in the next 50 years. The encounter was modeled to predict the expected peak
time, duration, and peak rate of the resulting outburst of Aurigid shower meteors. The Aurigids will radiate with a speed
of 67 km/s from a radiant at R.A. = 92°, Decl. = +39° (J2000) in the constellation Auriga. The expected peak time is 11:36 ± 20 min
UT, 2007 September 1, and the shower is expected to peak at Zenith Hourly Rate = 200/h during a 10-min interval, being above
half this value during 25 min. The meteor outburst will be visible by the naked eye from locations in Mexico, the Western
provinces of Canada, and the Western United States, including Hawaii and Alaska. A concerted observing campaign is being organized.
Added in proof: first impression of the shower.
Prepared as a contribution to the conference proceedings of “Meteoroids 2007”, to be published in the journal “Earth, Moon,
and Planets”. 相似文献
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Devulapalli Venkata Phani Kumar Kammadhanam Chenna Reddy Ganji Yellaiah 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,306(4):235-239
Observations carried out during Leonid meteor shower 2003, by using Indian MST radar (13.46^N, 79.18^E; dip 12.5^N) are used
to determine the number density of meteoroids through the cross section of the meteor streams. Cross sections are calculated
for a number of classes of echo duration (particle size). They are also used to determine the relative flux of the shower
in particle size ranges producing radar meteor echoes having durations <0.4 s, 0.4–1 s and >1 s. Mean activity profiles along
the Earth's passage through the stream show a systematic change of the peak activity and the width of the stream depending
on the distribution of echo durations across the stream. The patterns of mass distribution index s are presented and discussed. 相似文献
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针对目前流星雷达测距误差大的问题,本文提出了提高流星雷达测距精度的新方法,即提高采样速率,用相关分析确定回波脉冲参考点的方法。该方法使流星雷达的测距精度提高一个数量级,测距误差降到±14m,使流星雷达不仅可以用来观测研究流星,还可用于监测飞机、火箭的飞行等,扩大流星雷达的应用。 相似文献
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Joseph A. Nuth III John L. Lowrance George R. Carruthers 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):495-504
The prime measurement objective of the Near Earth Object Chemical Analysis Mission (NEOCAM) is to obtain the ultraviolet spectra
of meteors entering the terrestrial atmosphere from ∼125 to 300 nm in meteor showers. All of the spectra will be collected
using a slitless ultraviolet spectrometer in Earth orbit. Analysis of these spectra will reveal the degree of chemical diversity
in the meteors, as observed in a single meteor shower. Such meteors are traceable to a specific parent body and we know exactly
when the meteoroids in a particular shower were released from that parent body (Asher, in: Arlt (ed.) Proc. International
Meteor Conference, 2000; Lyytinen and van Flandern, Earth Moon Planets 82–83:149–166, 2000). By observing multiple apparitions
of meteor showers we can therefore obtain quasi-stratigraphic information on an individual comet or asteroid. We might also
be able to measure systematic effects of chemical weathering in meteoroids from specific parent bodies by looking for correlations
in the depletions of the more volatile elements as a function of space exposure (Borovička et al., Icarus 174:15–30, 2005).
By observing the relation between meteor entry characteristics (such as the rate of deceleration or breakup) and chemistry
we can determine if our meteorite collection is deficient in the most volatile-rich samples. Finally, we can obtain a direct
measurement of metal deposition into the terrestrial stratosphere that may act to catalyze atmospheric chemical reactions. 相似文献
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Lars P. Dyrud Kelly Denney Julio Urbina Diego Janches Erhan Kudeki Steve Franke 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2004,95(1-4):89-100
In this paper, we use radar observations from a 50 MHz radar stationed near Salinas, Puerto Rico, to study the variability
of specular as well as non-specular meteor trails in the E-region ionosphere. The observations were made from 18:00 to 08:00 h
AST over various days in 1998 and 1999 during the Coqui II Campaign [Urbina et al., 2000, Geophys. Rev. Lett. 27, 2853–2856]. The radar system had two sub-arrays, both produced beams pointed to the north in the magnetic meridian plane,
perpendicular to the magnetic field, at an elevation angle of approximately 41 degrees.
The Coqui II radar is sensitive to at least two types of echoes from meteor trails: (1) Specular reflections from trails oriented
perpendicular to the radar beam, and (2) scattering, or, non-specular reflections, from trails deposited with arbitrary orientations.
We examine and compare the diurnal and seasonal variability of echoes from specular and non-specular returns observed with
the Coqui II radar. We also compare these results with meteor head echo observations made with the Arecibo 430 MHz radar.
We use common region observations of these three types of meteor echoes to show that the diurnal and seasonal variability
of specular trails, non-specular trails, and head echoes are not equivalent. The implications of these results on global meteor
mass flux estimates obtained from specular meteor observations remains to be examined. 相似文献
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D. J. Asher 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):27-33
The spatial structure of meteor streams, and the activity profiles of their corresponding meteor showers, depend firstly on
the distribution of meteoroid orbits soon after ejection from the parent comet nucleus, and secondly on the subsequent dynamical
evolution. The latter increases in importance as more time elapses. For younger structures within streams, notably the dust
trails that cause sharp meteor outbursts, it is the cometary ejection model (meteoroid production rate as a function of time
through the several months of the comet’s perihelion return, and velocity distribution of the meteoroids released) that primarily
determines the shape and width of the trail structure. This paper describes how a trail cross section can be calculated once
an ejection model has been assumed. Such calculations, if made for a range of ejection model parameters and compared with
observed parameters of storms and outbursts, can be used to constrain quantitatively the process of meteoroid ejection from
the nucleus, including the mass distribution of ejected meteoroids. 相似文献
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J. Tóth L. Kornoš Š. Gajdoš D. Kalmančok P. Zigo J. Világi M. Hajduková Jr. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):257-261
We present our experience and initial results of single-station observation using the new fish-eye TV system, as well as double
station TV observation of the Geminids 2006 shower. The fixed fish-eye TV system was developed for monitoring meteor activity
throughout the year. We discuss the astrometric precision of our observations using the UFOAnalyser software. 相似文献
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The Arecibo UHF radar is able to detect the head-echos of micron-sized meteoroids up to velocities of 75 km/s over a height
range of 80–140 km. Because of their small size there are many uncertainties involved in calculating their above atmosphere
properties as needed for orbit determination. An ab initio model of meteor ablation has been devised that should work over
the mass range 10−16 kg to 10−7 kg, but the faint end of this range cannot be observed by any other method and so direct verification is not possible. On
the other hand, the EISCAT UHF radar system detects micrometeors in the high mass part of this range and its observations
can be fit to a “standard” ablation model and calibrated to optical observations (Szasz et al. 2007). In this paper, we present a preliminary comparison of the two models, one observationally confirmable. Among the features
of the ab initio model that are different from the “standard” model are: (1) uses the experimentally based low pressure vaporization
theory of O’Hanlon (A users’s guide to vacuum technology, 2003) for ablation, (2) uses velocity dependent functions fit from
experimental data on heat transfer, luminosity and ionization efficiencies measured by Friichtenicht and Becker (NASA Special
Publication 319: 53, 1973) for micron sized particles, (3) assumes a density and temperature dependence of the micrometeoroids
and ablation product specific heats, (4) assumes a density and size dependent value for the thermal emissivity and (5) uses
a unified synthesis of experimental data for the most important meteoroid elements and their oxides through least square fits
(as functions of temperature, density, and/or melting point) of the tables of thermodynamic parameters given in Weast (CRC
Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, 1984), Gray (American Institute of Physics Handbook, 1972), and Cox (Allen’s Astrophysical
Quantities 2000). This utilization of mostly experimentally determined data is the main reason for calling this an ab initio
model and is made necessary by the fact that individual average meteoroid mass densities are now derivable from Arecibo observations. 相似文献