Roberto Gorelli points our attention at some recently published meteor related paper.

Solar cycle variation in radar meteor rates

This paper will be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: “Solar cycle variation in radar meteor rates.” by M. D. Campbell-Brown.

 

Abstract: Sixteen years of meteor radar data from the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) were used to investigate the link between observed meteor rates and both solar and geomagnetic activity. Meteor rates were corrected for transmitter power and receiver noise, and seasonal effects were removed. A strong negative correlation is seen between solar activity, as measured with the 10.7 cm flux, and observed meteor rates. This lends support to the idea that heating in the atmosphere at times of elevated solar activity changes the scale height and therefore the length and maximum brightness of meteors; a larger scale height near solar maximum leads to longer, fainter meteors and therefore lower rates. A weaker negative correlation was observed with geomagnetic activity as measured with the K index; this correlation was still present when solar activity effects were removed. Meteor activity at solar maximum is as much as 30% lower than at solar minimum, strictly due to observing biases; geomagnetic activity usually affects meteor rates by less than 10 percent.

You can download this paper for free: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09422.pdf (10 pages).

 

 

Older meteor library news:

2019

  • A New Meteoroid Model, by Valeri V. Dikarev, Eberhard Grün, William J. Baggaley, David P. Galligan, Markus Landgraf, Rüdiger Jehn. (12 February 2019).
  • Lunar impacts, by Costantino Sigismondi. (12 February 2019).
  • Lunar impact flashes, by C. Avdellidou and J. Vaubaillon. (10 February 2019).
  • The Geminid parent body: (3200) Phaethon, by Patrick A. Taylor, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Lance A.M. Benner, Sean E. Marshall, Anne K. Virkki, Flaviane C.F. Venditti, Luisa F. Zambrano-Marin, Sriram S. Bhiravarasu, Betzaida Aponte-Hernandez, Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde and Jon D. Giorgini. (10 February 2019).
  • Sun approaching asteroids and meteor streams, by Quanzhi Ye and Mikael Granvik. (10 February 2019).

2018

2017