First results of optical meteor and meteor trail irregularity from simultaneous Sanya radar and video observations

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摘要 MeteoroidsenteringtheEarth'satmospherecancreatemeteortrailirregularityseriouslydisturbingthebackgroundionosphere.AlthoughnumerousobservationsofmeteortrailirregularitieswereperformedwithVHF/UHFcoherentscatterradarsinthepast,nosimultaneousradarandopticalinstrumentswereemployedtoinvestigatethecharacteristicsofmeteortrailirregularityanditscorrespondingmeteoroid.ByinstallingmultiplevideocamerasneartheSanyaVHFradarsite,anobservationalcampaignwasconductedduringtheperiodfromNovember2016toFebruary2017.Atotalof242opticalmeteorswithsimultaneousnon-specularechoesbackscatteredfromtheplasmairregularitiesgeneratedinthecorrespondingmeteortrailswereidentified.Agoodagreementbetweentheangularpositionsofnon-specularechoesderivedfromtheSanyaradarinterferometerandthoseofopticalmeteorswasfound,validatingthattheradarsystemphaseoffsetshavebeenproperlycalibrated.TheresultsalsoverifytheinterferometrycapabilityofSanyaradarformeteortrailirregularityobservation.Thenon-specularechoeswithsimultaneousopticalmeteorsweredetectedatmagneticaspectanglesgreaterthan~78°.Basedonthemeteorvisualmagnitudeestimatedfromtheopticaldata,itwasfoundthattheradarnonspecularechoescorrespondingtobrightermeteorssurvivedforlongerduration.Thiscouldprovideobservationalevidenceforthesignificanceofmeteoroidmassonthedurationofmeteortrailirregularity.Ontheotherhand,thesimultaneousradarandvideocommon-volumeobservationsshowedthatthereweresomecaseswithopticalmeteorsbutwithoutradarnon-specularechoes.Onepossibilitycouldbethatsomeoftheopticalmeteorsappearedatextremelylowaltitudeswheremeteortrailirregularitiesrarelyoccur.
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出版日期 2018年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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