The effective diffusion coefficient of meteor trails above 100 km

Details The effective diffusion coefficient of meteor trails above 100 km The effective diffusion coefficient of meteor trails above 100 km

Nov 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.495..357e&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the Meteoroids 2001 Conference, 6 - 10 August 2001, Kiruna, Sweden. Ed.: Barbara Warmbein. ESA SP-495, Noordw

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Meteor Trails

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In a recent paper R. E. Robson [Phys. Rev. E, 63 (2)026404, 2001] has set the problem of the diffusion of meteor trails "in the context of mainstream plasma physics". The outcome is a new expression for the effective diffusion coefficient of a meteor trail that includes the effect of the magnetic field of the Earth and is thus applicable to meteor trails at all heights. Using laboratory based data for the values of the parallel diffusion coefficient and the collision frequencies, values of the effective diffusion coefficient have been calculated for radar observations of underdense trails as a function of beam direction for a number of meteor radars. Dramatic increases in the lifetime of radar echoes are predicted for trails above 100 km when the radar beam is directed to within 10° of the orthogonal to the magnetic field.

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