Structures in the Na airglow images after a bright meteor fireball

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[0300] Atmospheric Composition And Structure, [0310] Atmospheric Composition And Structure / Airglow And Aurora, [0358] Atmospheric Composition And Structure / Thermosphere: Energy Deposition, [6245] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Meteors

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A fireball meteor with a visual magnitude of over -6 and a persistent trail were observed by two all-sky cameras for detecting the aurora and sodium airglow at Syowa Station, Antarctica. Orbit and other parameters of the fireball were estimated by an all-sky television camera for detecting the aurora. Two interesting structures were captured in the all-sky sodium airglow imager after the event: one was a ring structure that expanded to a diameter of 50 km in 9 minutes. The other consisted of two sets of planar waves aligned with the meteor orbit, observed approximately 9 minutes after the fireball. The former was identified as a persistent meteor trail distorted by the background with vertical shear. The latter are likely gravity waves. Here we provide a detailed report of these observations, on the circular structure, and on the vertical structure of the underlying background wind which caused this expanding ring.

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