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2002A&A...384..711O - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 384711-724 (2002/3-3)

An artificial meteor database as a test for the presence of weak showers.

OLECH A. and WISNIEWSKI M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have constructed an artificial meteor database resembling in all details the real sample collected by the observers of the Comets and Meteors Workshop in the years 1996-1999. The artificial database includes the sporadic meteors and also events from the following showers: Perseids, Aquarid complex, α-Capricornids, July Pegasids and Sagittarids. This database was searched for the presence of the radiants of two weak showers: α-Cygnids and Delphinids. The lack of these radiants in the artificial database and their existence in the real observations suggests that α-Cygnids and Delphinids are real showers and their radiants could not be formed as an effect of intersections of back prolongated paths of meteors belonging to other showers.

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Journal keyword(s): solar system: general - meteors, meteoroids

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