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Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2006

The 2005 Draconid outburst

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Aims.We report the flux profile and mean orbit for meteoroids associated with an unexpected activity outburst from the Draconid meteor shower on 8 October, 2005. The primary aim is to define the characteristics of the outburst and establish the age of the associated meteoroids.
Methods: .Radar data from the outburst are used to define the flux profile and mass distribution for Draconid meteoroids at small meteoroid masses, while visual data are used to define the ZHR profile at larger masses. The radar recorded both single station and orbital data permitting orbits for many individual Draconid radar echoes as well as determination of a mean shower radiant.
Results: .The peak activity was centered at 16.1 hrs UT, (lambda_&sun;=195.42° (J2000) solar longitude) with noticeably heightened radar activity lasting for a total of more than three hours. Based on the distribution of amplitudes for underdense Draconid echoes, the mean mass distribution index at masses of 10-6 kg was found to be 2.0 ± 0.1. The equivalent hourly-binned radar ZHR was in excess of 150, while visual observations in the same intervals produced ZHRs of 40. The apparent radiant of the outburst was alpha= 256.9±2.2°, delta=+56.6±1.8°. Numerical modelling of radar-sized Draconids show that a significant number of meteoroids from the 1946 perihelion passage of 21P/Giacobini-Zinner encountered the Earth over the interval 195.23°
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hal-03785039 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

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Margaret Campbell-Brown, Jérémie Vaubaillon, P. Brown, R. J. Weryk, R. Arlt. The 2005 Draconid outburst. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2006, 451, pp.339-344. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361:20054588⟩. ⟨hal-03785039⟩
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