AbstractEvery day billions of meteoroids impact and disintegrate in the Earth’s atmosphere. Current estimates for this global meteor flux vary from 2000 to 200,000tons per year, and estimates for the average velocity range between 10km/s and 70km/s. The basic properties of this global meteor flux, such as the average mass, velocity, and chemical composition remain poorly constrained. We believe much of the mystery surrounding the basic parameters of the interplanetary meteor flux exists for the following reason, the unknown sampling characteristics of different radar meteor observation techniques, which are used to derive or constrain most models. We believe this arises due to poorly understood radio scattering characteristics of the meteor plasma, especially in light of recent work showing that plasma turbulence and instability greatly influences meteor trail properties at every stage of evolution. We present our results on meteor plasmas simulations of head echoes using particle in cell (PIC) ions, which show that electric fields strongly influence early stage meteor plasma evolution, by accelerating ions away from the meteoroid body. We also present the results of finite difference time domain electromagnetic simulations (FDTD), which can calculate the radar cross section of the simulated meteor plasmas. These simulations have shown that the radar cross section depends in a complex manner on a number of parameters. These include the angle between radar and meteor entry, a large dependence on radar frequency, which shows that for a given meteor plasma size and density, the reflectivity as a function of probing radar frequency varies, but typically peaks below 100MHz.


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    Titel :

    Plasma and electromagnetic wave simulations of meteors


    Beteiligte:
    Dyrud, Lars (Autor:in) / Wilson, Derek (Autor:in) / Boerve, Steiner (Autor:in) / Trulsen, Jan (Autor:in) / Pecseli, Hans (Autor:in) / Close, Sigrid (Autor:in) / Chen, Chen (Autor:in) / Lee, Yoonjae (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 42 , 1 ; 136-142


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-03-19


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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