Meteor observations by the Arecibo 430 MHz incoherent scatter radar-- 1. Results from time-integrated observations

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Mar 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jatp...57..421z&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169), vol. 57, no. 4, p. 421-431

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Incoherent Scattering, Ionospheres, Meteor Trails, Meteoroids, Puerto Rico, Radar Scattering, Ultrahigh Frequencies, Data Correlation, Temporal Distribution, Vertical Distribution

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The paper discusses an incoherent scatter radar (ISR) power profile interference detection and meteor filtering technique and presents the meteor interference statistics derived from the Arecibo 430 MHz ISR. The statistics obtained from the Arecibo ISR are comparable with the meteor statistics obtained by other radar and optical techniques. Using the hourly rate of meteor flux, the average visual magnitude of the meteors is estimated to be as faint as +14, probably, the faintest ever reported. For low echo meteors, the mean ablation height exhibits a logarithmic relationship with the returned power below 105 km. However, once the echo power exceeds a certain threshold, the mean height remains constant at 107 km for all meteors irrespective of their returned power. The unique aspect of the meteor trails reported here is that they are observed in the radial direction of the radar beam. The lack of aspect sensitivity and the high meteor rate detected by the Arecibo 430 MHz system seem to suggest that the scattering mechanism in the UHF range of frequencies may be different from the mechanism operating at VHF. Some future prospects of exploiting meteor trails to study the neutral wind and other aspects of the meteor region are also proposed.

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