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This paper corresponds to an invited oral contribution to the session 5A organised by the IAU inter-commission B2-B5 working group (WG) "Laboratory Astrophysics Data Compilation, Validation and Standardization: from the Laboratory to FAIR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 M. Rengel

December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. Analysis of a high quality orbits subset of the SonotaCo video meteor database shows that the distribution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Peter Vereš , Leonard Kornoš , Juraj Tóth

The Opacity Project (OP) and Iron Project (IP) are pioneering international collaborations which have been computing, for more than 25 years, massive atomic data sets for astrophysical applications. We review the data activities that have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-14 Claudio Mendoza , Luis A. Nunez

Asteroid activity (e.g., thermo-mechanical breakdown, impacts, rotational shedding, tidal disruption, etc.) can inject meteoroids into near-Earth space and leave detectable signatures in orbit catalogs. We searched for such recent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Patrick M. Shober

The Oort cloud is thought to be a reservoir of icy planetesimals and the source of long-period comets (LPCs) implanted from the outer Solar System during the time of giant planet formation. The abundance of rocky ice-free bodies is a key…

Carbonaceous asteroids represent the principal source of water in the inner Solar System and might correspond to the main contributors for the delivery of water to Earth. Hydrogen isotopes in water-bearing primitive meteorites, e.g.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-19 Laurette Piani , Hisayoshi Yurimoto , Laurent Remusat

Accurate identification of meteoroid streams is central to understanding their origins and evolution. However, overlapping clusters and background noise hinder classification, an issue amplified for missions such as ESA's LUMIO that rely on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Eloy Peña-Asensio , Fabio Ferrari

Given the compositional diversity of asteroids, and their distribution in space, it is impossible to consider returning samples from each one to establish their origin. However, the velocity and molecular composition of primary minerals,…

A meteor shower is a luminous phenomenon that takes place by the entry into the Earths atmosphere of a cascade of particles coming from a stream intersected by our planet in its orbit. Here we investigate the possibility of a description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-29 Oscar Sotolongo-Costa , R. Gamez , F. Luzon , A. Posadas , Pablo Weigandt Beckmann

The Surface Detector (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory is a 3000 km$^2$ array of stations, whose main components are Water-Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) recording ground-level signals from Extensive Air Showers (EASs) initiated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Margita Kubátová

Meteoroids impacting the Earth on a daily basis are fragments of asteroids and comets. By studying fireballs produced during their disintegration in the atmosphere, we can gain information about their source regions and the properties of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Borovicka , P. Spurny , L. Shrbeny

Dormant comets in the near-Earth object (NEO) population are thought to be involved in the terrestrial accretion of water and organic materials. Identification of dormant comets is difficult as they are observationally indistinguishable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Quan-Zhi Ye , Peter G. Brown , Petr Pokorný

The solar system's Zodiacal Cloud is visible to the unaided eye, yet the origin of its constituent dust particles is not well understood, with a wide range of proposed divisions between sources in the asteroid belt and Jupiter Family…

This paper presents the Mars Dust Storm Detector (MDSD), a system that leverages the THz Opportunistic Integrated Sensing and Communications (OISAC) signals between Mars surface assets (rovers and landers) to extract environmental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

In this work, we present an optical survey of mm-sized meteoroids using the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory's (CAMO) mirror tracking system. The system tracks meteors to magnitude +7.5 through an image-intensified telescopic system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Nicolas Buccongello , Peter G. Brown , Denis Vida , Arazi Pinhas

The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, with energies $E \geq 10^{18}$ eV, remains unknown. Among the key observables used to investigate their nature are the energy spectrum, the arrival direction distribution, and the composition as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 A. D. Supanitsky , D. Ravignani , V. V. Kizakke Covilakam

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

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory studies cosmic-ray initiated extensive air showers (EASs) using the IceTop surface array, which is sensitive to the electromagnetic component and low-energy ($\sim$ GeV) muonic component of EASs. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Lincoln Draper , Fahim Varsi , Dennis Soldin

In this paper we present the Data Processor (DP) of EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon, mission two) telescopes . The EUSO-SPB2 is the continuation of the JEM-EUSO science program on ultra-long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Giuseppe Osteria , Valentina Scotti , Francesco Perfetto

This work presents numerical simulations of meteoroid streams released by comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner over the period 1850-2030. The initial methodology, based on Vaubaillon et al. (2005), has been updated and modified to account for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 A. Egal , P. Wiegert , P. G. Brown , D. E. Moser , M. Campbell-Brown , A. Moorhead , S. Ehlert , N. Moticska