Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper:

Radar observations of Draconid outbursts

This article has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society submitted by M. D. Campbell-Brown, G. Stober, C. Jacobi, J. Kero, A. Kozlovsky and M. Lester.

 

Abstract: The Draconid meteor shower shows strong bursts of activity at irregular intervals, with nearly no activity in intervening years. Five outbursts of the Draconid meteor shower were observed with specular meteor radars in Canada and Europe between 1999 and 2018. The outbursts generally lasted between 6 and 8 hours, and most were not fully visible at a single geographical site, emphasizing the need for observations at multiple longitudes for shortduration shower outbursts. There is at least a factor of two difference in the peak flux as measured on different radars; the initial trail radius effect is undercorrected for Draconid meteors, which are known to be fragile.

You can download this paper for free: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.11418.pdf (7 pages).

 

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