Meteor showers from known long-period comets

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作者
Jenniskens, Peter [1 ,2 ]
Lauretta, Dante S. [3 ]
Towner, Martin C. [4 ]
Heathcote, Steve [5 ]
Jehin, Emmanuel [6 ]
Hanke, Toni [7 ]
Cooper, Tim [8 ]
Baggaley, Jack W. [9 ]
Howell, J. Andreas [10 ]
Johannink, Carl [11 ]
Breukers, Martin [11 ]
Odeh, Mohammad [12 ]
Moskovitz, Nicholas [13 ]
Juneau, Luke [14 ]
Beck, Tim [15 ]
De Cicco, Marcelo [16 ,17 ,18 ]
Samuels, Dave [1 ]
Rau, Steve [11 ]
Albers, Jim [1 ]
Gural, Peter S. [19 ]
机构
[1] SETI Inst, 189 Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
[2] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[3] Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[4] Curtin Univ, Space Sci & Technol Ctr, Perth, WA 6102, Australia
[5] Cerro Tololo Interamer Observ, La Serena, Chile
[6] Univ Liege, STAR Inst, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
[7] High Energy Stereoscop Syst Collaborat, Windhoek, Namibia
[8] Astron Soc Southern Africa, Bredell, South Africa
[9] Univ Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Ave, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
[10] CAMS Florida, Gainesville, FL 32605 USA
[11] CAMS BeNeLux, Schiefestr 36, D-48599 Gronau, Germany
[12] Int Astron Ctr, Bani Yas St, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates
[13] Lowell Observ, 1400 West Mars Hill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA
[14] CAMS Arkansas, North Little Rock, AR 72118 USA
[15] Mendocino Coll, 1000 Hensley Creek Rd, Ukiah, CA 95482 USA
[16] Observ Nacl, Rua Gal Jose Cristino 77, BR-20921400 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
[17] EXOSS Citizen Sci Project, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[18] INMETRO, Av Nossa Senhora Gracas 50, BR-25250020 Duque De Caxias, RJ, Brazil
[19] Gural Software & Anal LLC, Lovettsville, VA 20180 USA
关键词
Meteors; Meteor showers; long period; Comets; dynamics; dust; Celestial mechanics; MASS-DISTRIBUTION INDEXES; STREAM ACTIVITY; DUST TRAIL; EVOLUTION; RADAR; ORBIT; MOTION;
D O I
10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114469
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
What long-period comets with orbital periods >250 years cause detectable meteor showers on Earth? Low-light video cameras are used to track the motion of +4 to -5 magnitude meteors in our atmosphere by triangulation and calculate the meteoroid orbit in space. In recent years, the CAMS (Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance) low-light video camera network was greatly expanded and, together with other video networks, now has increased the total video meteoroid orbit database to over 2.2 million orbits. Here, we searched this database for meteor showers associated with known long-period comets. Previously, five associations were known. Now, we find 14, as well as six uncertain but likely associations. These showers show a change of longitude of perihelion with node that is a strong function of inclination. Showers of longer duration show a steeper magnitude distribution index, presumably due to aging of the meteoroid population. Showers are generally detected only if the orbital period of the comet is less than 4000 years and the Earth-Comet orbital miss distance is <= 0.10 AU. The lack of an associated meteor shower sets lower limits on the orbital period of poorly observed comets.
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