Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980icar...43..381k&link_type=abstract
Icarus, vol. 43, Sept. 1980, p. 381-384.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Luminosity, Orionid Meteoroids, Perseid Meteoroids, Magnitude, Mass Ratios, Maximum Likelihood Estimates, Meteors, Meteor Showers, Luminosity, Perseids, Orionids, Astronomy, Calculations, Characteristics
Scientific paper
Observations of the 1969 Perseid and Orionid meteor showers are presented and used to derive luminosity functions for the 288 Perseids and 56 Orionids detected. Visual counts were performed under very good to excellent seeing conditions at the times of peak activities, and the brightnesses of the meteors were estimated to the nearest magnitude by comparison with the magnitudes of known objects. Maximum likelihood estimates of the power law index of the luminosity function of 1.56 + or - 0.06 for the Perseids and of 1.85 + or - 0.1 for the Orionids are obtained which are lower than the values found by other investigators. Under the assumption that the luminosity of visual meteors is proportional to their mass, the luminosity function power law may also be used to characterize the mass function.
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