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Here we describe the first light of the novel 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution, Mini-MegaTORTORA, which is being tested now at Special Astrophysical Observatory on Russian Caucasus. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Biryukov , G. Beskin , S. Karpov , S. Bondar , E. Ivanov , E. Katkova , A. Perkov , V. Sasyuk

This article presents a new tool for the automatic detection of meteors. Fast Meteor Detection Toolbox (FMDT) is able to detect meteor sightings by analyzing videos acquired by cameras onboard weather balloons or within airplane with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Clara Ciocan , Mathuran Kandeepan , Adrien Cassagne , Jeremie Vaubaillon , Fabian Zander , Lionel Lacassagne

The mass ranges of meteors, imaged by electro-optical (EO) cameras and backscatter radar receivers, for the most part do not overlap. Typical EO systems detect meteoroid masses down to 10$^{-5}$ kg or roughly magnitude +2 meteors when using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 P. Gural , T. Mills , M. Mazur , P. Brown

Here we report on a two year continuous survey to examine possible VLF signals associated with meteors brighter than magnitude -5. Our survey allowed both calibrated temporal and spatial correlations between VLF signals and fireball…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 C. Y. Sung , P. Brown , R. Marshall

The Global Meteor Network (GMN) utilizes highly sensitive low-cost CMOS video cameras which run open-source meteor detection software on Raspberry Pi computers. Currently, over 450 GMN cameras in 30 countries are deployed. The main goal of…

Meteors carry important and indispensable information about the interplanetary environment, which can be used to understand the origin and evolution of our solar system. We have developed a Multi-station Meteor Monitoring ($\rm M^3$) system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Z. Li , H. Zou , J. Liu , J. Ma , X. Zhao , X. Li , Z. Tu , B. Zhang , R. Wang , S. Wang , Marco Xue

To better estimate which luminous efficiency ($\tau$) value is compatible with contemporary values of the ionization coefficient ($\beta$), we report a series of simultaneous optical and specular echo radar measurements of low speed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Peter Brown , Robert J. Weryk

Meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere can be observed as meteors, thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies. We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Margonis , A. Christou , J. Oberst

We report high resolution multi-station observations of meteors by the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory (CAMO) recorded from June 2009 to August 2010. Our survey has a limiting detection magnitude of +5 mag in R-band, equivalent to a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Musci , R. J. Weryk , P. Brown , M. D. Campbell-Brown , P. A. Wiegert

We report on an eight year survey of simultaneous optical and radar meteor detections with the goal of isolating the fraction of meteors missed by specular radars. A total of 10,503 Electron Multiplied Charge Couple Device (EMCCD) meteors…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Margaret Campbell-Brown

Recently, low frequency, broadband radio emission has been observed accompanying bright meteors by the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The broadband spectra between 20 and 60 MHz were captured for several events, while the spectral index…

Meteors are important phenomenon reflecting many properties of interplanetary dust particles. The study of their origin, mass distribution, and orbit evolution all require large data volume, which can only be obtained using large meteor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Z. Li , H. Zou , J. Liu , J. Ma , Q. Meng , Y. Cai , X. Zhao , X. Li , Z. Tu , B. Zhang , R. Wang , S. Wang , F. Lu

We report results of a four-year survey using Electron Multiplied Charged Coupled Device (EMCCD) cameras recording 34761 two-station video meteor events complete to a limiting magnitude of +6. The survey goal was to characterize probable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Tristan Mills , P. G. Brown , M. J. Mazur , D. Vida , Peter S. Gural , Althea V. Moorhead

A catalog of 824 fireballs (bright meteors), observed by a dedicated network of all-sky digital photographic cameras in central Europe in the years 2017-2018 is presented. The status of the European Fireball Network, established in 1963, is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Borovicka , P. Spurny , L. Shrbeny , R. Stork , L. Kotkova , J. Fuchs , J. Keclikova , H. Zichova , J. Manek , P. Vachova , I. Macourkova , J. Svoren , H. Mucke

Joint evaluation of different meteor observation types support the better understanding of both the meteor phenomenon and the terrestrial atmosphere. Two types of examples are presented in this work, linking ionospheric effects to specific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Á. Kereszturi , V. Barta , I. Bondár , Cs. Czanik , A. Igaz , P. Mónus , D. Rezes , L. Szabados , B. D. Pál

The initial results of a two year simultaneous optical-radar meteor campaign are described. Analysis of 105 double-station optical meteors having plane of sky intersection angles greater than 5 degrees and trail lengths in excess of 2 km…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-27 Peter Brown , Gunter Stober , Carsten Schult , Z. Krzeminski , William Cooke , Jorge Chau

This article describes our approach to quantifying the characteristics of meteors such as temperature, chemical composition, and others. We are using a new approach based on colourimetry. We analyze an image of Leonid meteor-6230 obtained…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 B. E. Zhilyaev , V. N. Petukhov , V. N. Reshetnyk , A. P. Vidmachenko

Since 2009 the double station meteor observation by the all-sky video cameras of the Slovak Video Meteor Network (SVMN) brought hundreds of orbits. Thanks to several amateur wide field video stations of the Central European Meteor Network…

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