Modeling the photometric and dynamical behavior of Super-Schmidt meteors in the Earth's atmosphere

Details Modeling the photometric and dynamical behavior of Super-Schmidt meteors in the Earth's atmosphere Modeling the photometric and dynamical behavior of Super-Schmidt meteors in the Earth's atmosphere

Jul 2002

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.680-691 (2002)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12

Meteors, Meteoroids

Scientific paper

Faint meteors observed with Super-Schmidt cameras are re-examined in order to assess whether their dynamical and photometric behavior can be described by means of the single body theory. Velocities, decelerations and magnitudes are fitted simultaneously to synthetic curves resulting from integration of the appropriate set of differential equations. The parameters determined by this procedure are the ablation coefficient, the shape-density coefficient and the preatmospheric mass of each individual meteoroid. It turns out that 73% of the meteors analyzed here (with magnitudes in the range from +2.5 to -5) are reasonably well described by this theory, suggesting that they did not undergo significant fragmentation during their atmospheric flight. Nevertheless, we identify some systematic differences between observed and theoretical light curves of meteors for which the fit is good. Meteoroid bulk densities are estimated from the retrieved shape-density coefficients. The distributions of individual values are broad, indicating that objects of different densities coexist within the same meteoroid population. The average density is found to be 2400, 1400, and 400 kg m-3 for A-type, B-type and C-type meteoroids, respectively. These results do not confirm the large values determined from quasicontinuous fragmentation models.

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