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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

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

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

Material arriving at our solar system from the Galaxy may be detected at Earth in the form of meteors ablating in our atmosphere. Here we report on a search for interstellar meteors within the highest-quality events in the Global Meteor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Paul Wiegert , Vanessa Tran , Cole Gregg , Denis Vida , Peter Brown

Estimating the meteoroid flux density at centimetre to metre sizes is notoriously difficult. Yet it is an important endeavour, as these sizes represent the transition between small meteoroids that pose a risk to spacecraft, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Konstantinos S. Servis , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix , Eleanor K. Sansom , Thomas W. C. Stevenson

In the first paper of this series we examined existing methods of optical meteor trajectory estimation and developed a novel method which simultaneously uses both the geometry and the dynamics of meteors to constrain their trajectories. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Vida , Peter G. Brown , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Paul Wiegert , Peter S. Gural

Context: Until recently, camera networks designed for monitoring fireballs worldwide were not fully automated, implying that in case of a meteorite fall, the recovery campaign was rarely immediate. This was an important limiting factor as…

Fast sampling photometry is essential for characterising fireballs and their fragmentation episodes which link to the meteoroid internal structure. Accurate measurements remain challenging due to the large required dynamic range of up to 10…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Dale Giancono , Hadrien Devillepoix , Robert Howie , Denis Vida , David Rollinson

Here we report on the results of meteor observations with 9-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) wide-field optical monitoring system with high temporal resolution. During first 1.5 years of operation more than 90 thousands of meteors have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 S. Karpov , N. Orekhova , G. Beskin , A. Biryukov , S. Bondar , E. Ivanov , E. Katkova , A. Perkov , V. Sasyuk

The Earth is impacted by 35-40 metre-scale objects every year. These meteoroids are the low mass end of impactors that can do damage on the ground. Despite this they are very poorly surveyed and characterised, too infrequent for ground…

Meteor showers and their outbursts are the dominant source of meteoroid impact risk to spacecraft on short time scales. Meteor shower prediction models depend on historical observations to produce accurate forecasts. However, the current…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Denis Vida , Rhiannon C. Blaauw Erskine , Peter G. Brown , Jonathon Kambulow , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Michael J. Mazur

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

The European viDeo MeteOr Network Database (EDMOND) is a database of video meteor orbits resulting from cooperation and data sharing among several European national networks and the International Meteor Organization Video Meteor Network,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-19 L. Kornoš , P. Matlovič , R. Rudawska , J. Tóth , M. Hajduková , J. Koukal , R. Piffl

In recent decades, the use of optical detection systems for meteor studies has increased dramatically, resulting in huge amounts of data being analyzed. Automated meteor detection tools are essential for studying the continuous meteoroid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Eloy Peña-Asensio , Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez , Pau Grèbol-Tomàs , David Regordosa-Avellana , Albert Rimola

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

Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the number of automated camera networks that monitor the sky for fireballs. One of the goals of these networks is to provide the necessary information for linking meteorites to their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-20 Mikael Granvik , Peter Brown

It has recently been shown by Egal et al. (2017) that some types of existing meteor in-atmosphere trajectory estimation methods may be less accurate than others, particularly when applied to high precision optical measurements. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-23 Denis Vida , Peter S. Gural , Peter G. Brown , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Paul Wiegert

We present an algorithm developed to measure the fluxes of major meteor showers as observed in NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network cameras. Measurements of fluxes from the All-Sky cameras not only improve the Meteoroid Environment Office's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Steven Ehlert , Rhiannon Blaauw Erskine

The global neutron monitor network has been successfully used over several decades to study cosmic ray variations and fluxes of energetic solar particles. Nowadays, it is used also for space weather purposes, e.g. alerts and assessment of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Alexander Mishev , Ilya Usoskin

Every moment, countless meteoroids enter our atmosphere unseen. The detection and measurement of meteors offer the unique opportunity to gain insights into the composition of our solar systems' celestial bodies. Researchers, therefore,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Rabea Sennlaub , Martin Hofmann , Mike Hankey , Mario Ennes , Thomas Müller , Peter Kroll , Patrick Mäder
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