Possible interstellar meteoroids detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar

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作者
Froncisz, Mark [1 ]
Brown, Peter [1 ,2 ]
Weryk, Robert J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Phys & Astron, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
[2] Univ Western Ontario, Ctr Planetary Sci & Explorat, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
[3] Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, 2680 Woodlawn Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Meteors; Interstellar meteoroids; Radar observations; Interplanetary dust; DUST; ULYSSES; STREAM; SYSTEM; PARTICLES; GRAINS; MODEL; EARTH; FLUX;
D O I
10.1016/j.pss.2020.104980
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We examine meteoroid orbits recorded by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) from 2012 to 2019, consisting of just over 11 million orbits in a search for potential interstellar meteoroids. Our 7.5 year survey consists of an integrated time-area product of similar to 7x 10(6) km(2) hours. Selecting just over 160000 six station meteor echoes having the highest measured velocity accuracy from within our sample, we found five candidate interstellar events. These five potential interstellar meteoroids were found to be hyperbolic at the 2 sigma-level using only their raw measured speed. Applying a new atmospheric deceleration correction algorithm developed for CMOR, we show that all five candidate events were likely hyperbolic at better than 3 sigma, the most significant being a 3.7 sigma detection. Assuming all five detections are true interstellar meteoroids, we estimate the interstellar meteoroid flux at Earth to be at least 6.6 x 10(-7) meteoroids/km(2)/hr appropriate to a mass of 2 x 10(-7)kg. Using estimated measurement uncertainties directly extracted from CMOR data, we simulated CMOR's ability to detect a hypothetical 'Oumuamua - associated hyperbolic meteoroid stream. Such a stream was found to be significant at the 1.8 sigma level, suggesting that CMOR would likely detect such a stream of meteoroids as hyperbolic. We also show that CMOR's sensitivity to interstellar meteoroid detection is directionally dependent.
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