Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.328..101w&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 1, pp. 101-111.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
5
Methods: Data Analysis, Meteors, Meteoroids
Scientific paper
A new search method for locating meteoroid streams within an orbit data base and obtaining their central core orbits is introduced. The method is based on the transformation of a data base of discrete orbits into a continuous density map. Artificial data bases are used to determine if a density is statistically unlikely to occur by random chance. A search is then run to identify all density peaks within the map that correspond to the central core of a meteoroid stream. Drummond D' criterion is used as a metric within the transformation and a D' acceptability limit, Dl, defines the length scale over which a discrete meteor orbit can have an influence on the density map. Examination of the search dependence on Dl for both real and artificial data sets indicates an appropriate standard value. A full search is run on 5280 meteor orbits from the IAU data base, detecting 16 known major and minor meteoroid streams. New central core orbits are presented for these. No major differences from the published orbits are detected, apart from possible multi-branched structure in the southern δ Aquarids.
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