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1 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) 1 Meteor science Video observation of Draconids 2011 from Italy. Juraj Tóth1, Roman Pi 2, Jakub Koukal2, Przemysªaw oªadek3, Mariusz Wi±niewski3, tefan Gajdo²1, Ferruccio Zanotti4, Diego Valeri4, Paolo De Maria4, Martin Popek2, Sylvie Gorková2, Jozef Világi1, Leonard Korno²1, Du²an Kalman ok1 and Pavol Zigo1 1 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia. 2 CEMeNt - Central European Meteor Network 3 PFN - Polish Fireball Network 4 IMTN - Italian Meteor and TLE Network toth@fmph.uniba.sk The join observation of Draconids 2011 by one all-sky video camera of the Slovak Video Meteor Network (SVMN), cameras of the Central European Meteor Network (CEMeNt), the Polish Fireball Network and local Italian Meteor and TLE Network in the night of October 8-9 brought hundreds of detected meteors over Italy. Due to problematic weather situation in the Central Europe, several groups had to move up and locate their video equipments in the Northern Italy to become a part of a ground-based observational Draconids 2011 campaign. This enthusiasm and e ort resulted in valuable observations, of which results are presented in this brief paper. 1 Introduction The Draconid meteor shower belongs to established low level annual meteor showers, which are capable to produce outbursts or even meteor storms. The parent comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was discovered in 1900 and following dust ejecta modeling showed a possible outburst in activity on October 8, 2011 (Watanabe & Sato, 2008; Vaubaillon et al., 2011). The Draconids are one of the slowest meteor streams and the most fragile material (Borovic ka et al., 2007). An observational campaign from air and ground was needed. Due to uncertain weather conditions in the Central Europe, several groups of observers have moved to Northern Italy, among them also the members of the Slovak Video Meteor Network (SVMN - Comenius University Bratislava) and of the Central European Meteor Network (CEMeNt - amateur network consisting of several observers from the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic) and also members of the Polish Fireball Network (PFN). Later, common video meteors were identified also from the local Italian Meteor and TLE Network (IMTN). 2 Observations Figure 1: Location of ground-based video meteor stations of the SVMN, CEMeNt, PFN and IMTN in the Northern Italy during the Draconids Novellara ( N, E) 39 km to the southwest from Nogara. Local Italian video stations of the IMTN, where we were able to find common meteors were located at Cuneo Ass. Astrofili Bisalta ( N, E), Fanano (Modena) ( N, N), Contigliano (Rieti) ( N, E), Tortoreto (Teramo) ( E, N) and Ferrara ( N, E). Visual observations were performed from the station of Cavandola. In total, there were 9 stations with 14 cameras participating on this joined campaign. The location of stations is shown in Figure 1. We set up double-station observation performed by one all-sky video camera developed and constructed at the Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory in Modra (SVMN) and three video cameras of the CEMeNt network. The equipments of SVMN and CEMeNt were described in To th et al. (2008, 2011a, 2011b). The first station was located near the town Bettola ( N, E), the second one close to the village of Cavandola ( N, E) in distance of 71 km east from the first station. Indepen- 3 Detection and data reduction dently, double-station video observations were set up Video signals from majority of cameras were detected from PFN in location Nogara ( N, E) by the UFOCapture software (SonotaCo, 2009), which and the second station close to the town of Bettolino di is able to recognize meteors and bolides from camera
2 2 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) Figure 2: Visual activity profile of the Draconids (Oct.8-9, 2011) from the station Cavandola derived by J. Koukal. Figure 3: Ground projection of the detected Draconids trails. analogue or digital signal. The meteor data were astrometrically analyzed by each experienced observer by using the UFOAnalyzer (SonotaCo, 2009) and the data from two Polish stations were recorded and analyzed by the METREC software (Molau, 1999). These data were later transformed to the UFOOrbit format. The following results were obtained by the UFOOrbit software (SonotaCo, 2009). The meteor observations were performed during the maximum activity of the Draconids (October 8-9, 2011), when 62 meteors were observed simultaneously at least from two stations. During the observational interval the elevation of the Draconid radiant has changed from 68 to 29 degrees. 4 Results The visual activity profile of the observed Draconids was derived according to IMO standards from the station Cavandola by J. Koukal (Figure 2). Observations were performed in 5 to 15 minutes intervals from 18:45 to 21:05 UT. There appeared two peaks at 19:50-19:55 UT and at 20:05-20:10 UT with ZHR of about 310 and 320, respectively. The mean population index of the Draconids was calculated as 2.62 ± 0.27 from visual magnitude distribution in the interval -2 to +5.5 magnitude. As was mentioned above, there were identified 62 meteors as Draconids, simultaneously observed by video techniques in time interval from 17:56 to 23:22 UT October 8. The ground projection of the individual meteor trails as seen by the multi-station observation is depicted in Figure 3. After the precise reduction and inspection, 43 Draconids with sufficient precision were selected. Additional 19 possible Draconids were excluded due to small convergence angle of planes, small number of measured meteor positions or other geometrical and astrometrical issues which led to large trajectory uncertainty. The precision of orbit depends mostly on the accuracy of the velocity determination. Due to a fragmenta- Figure 4: Individual geocentric radiant positions (J2000.0) distribution of the Draconids in right ascension (RA) and declination (DEC). The expected radiant position RA= and DEC=55. 8 according to Vaubaillon (2011) is depicted as. tion of the Draconid meteoroids in the atmosphere and following deceleration, the measurement of meteor velocities was problematic and could be determined with large uncertainties. Therefore, according to Borovička et al. (2007) and Koten et al. (2007) we assumed the initial velocity of the Draconids as km.s 1. This value was obtained from very precise photographic measurement of the Draconid fireball EN081005B in 2005 (Koten et al., 2007). The relevance of the assumption is supported by a velocity fitting in several cases, where we were able to determine the deceleration in our video data. The geophysical data (geocentric radiant and velocity, absolute maximum brightness, beginning and terminal height) of 43 Draconids are listed in Table 1 as well as the orbital parameters are shown in Table 2 also with their standard deviations. The absolute brightness was determined with a lower precision of about ± 1 magnitude and an error in the height as ± 0.2 km. In Table 2, there is also presented the orbit of the parent comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner obtained by the numerical
3 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) 3 Figure 6: The beginning (black circles) and terminal heights (open circles) of Draconids as a function of the absolute maximum brightness. Figure 5: Orbits of multi-station Draconids detected by video stations, derived by the UFOOrbit software. The orbits are projected into the ecliptic plane. The orbits of Jupiter and the inner planets are also plotted. The direction to the vernal equinox is from the center to the right. integration from the epoch of comet s perihelion passage in 1900 to Oct., Individual geocentric radiant equatorial coordinates are shown in Figure 4. The mean radiant is RA= ± 1. 47, DEC= ± This is in a good agreement with the expected radiant RA= ± 0. 2 and DEC=55. 8 ± 0. 2 according to model of Vaubaillon (2011). The heliocentric orbits projected into the ecliptic plane are shown in Figure 5. The beginning and endpopint heights as a function of the absolute maximum brightness of the Draconids are presented in Figure 6 and in the equations (1) H B = 99.4(±0.7) + 0.4(±0.5) M max H E = 87.5(±0.8) + 2.0(±0.6) M max, (1) where H B stands for the beginning height (km), H E for the endpoint height (km) and M max for the absolute maximum brightness (mag). However, the beginning heights do not change too much, which is a surprising result and will need detail inspection. Naturally, the endpoint heights decrease with the increasing brightness, which is standard for meteor showers. 5 Conclusion We present geophysical data and heliocentric orbits of 43 Draconids obtained from multi-station video observations by the cameras of the Slovak Video Meteor Network (SVMN), the Central European Meteor Network (CEMeNt), the Polish Fireball Network and local Italian Meteor and TLE Network employed in Italy during expected enhanced display of the Draconids on Oct.8, The meteor shower orbits and their comparison with the proposed parent body comet 21P/Giacobini- Zinner (JPL NASA) indicate a very close similarity. This work is a nice example of new video observations and cooperation of the networks in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Italy, which monitor regular and exceptional meteor activity as it was the case of the Draconids Acknowledgment This work was supported by the VEGA grant No. 1/0636/09, APVV grant and grant of Jozef Klačka. We greatly appreciate the help of Peter Vereš and video observations and data analysis done by professional and amateur astronomers of the video meteor networks and broad international cooperation and smooth data sharing. References [1] Borovička, J., Spurný, P., Koten, P. (2007) Atmospheric deceleration and light curves of Draconid meteors and implication for the structure of cometary dust Astron. Astrophys. 473, [2] Koten, P., Borovička, J., Spurný, P., Štork, R. (2007) Optical observation of enhanced activity of the 2005 Draconid meteor shower Astron. Astrophys. 466, [3] Molau, S. (1999) 1983 TB and the Geminid Meteors in Proc. of the Meteoroids 1998 Conf., ed. W.J. Baggalay and V. Porubčan, Bratislava, p. 131 [4] SonotaCo (2009) Ongoing meteor work. A meteor shower catalog based on video observations in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization 37, [5] Tóth, J., Kornoš, L., Gajdoš, Š., Kalmančok, D., Zigo, P., Világi, J., Hajdukov a, M. Jr. (2008) TV Meteor Observations from Modra. Earth, Moon, and Planets 102,
4 4 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) [6] Tóth, J., Kornoš, L., Vereš, P., Šilha, J., Kalmančok, D., Zigo, P., Világi, J. (2011a) All- Sky Video Orbits of Lyrids Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, [7] Tóth, J., Vereš, P., Kornoš, L., Piffl, R., Koukal, J., Gajdoš, Š., Majchrovič, I., Zigo, P., Zima, M., Világi, J. and Kalmančok, D. (2011b) Video observation of Geminids 2010 and Quadrantids 2011 by SVMN and CEMeNt. WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization 39:2, [8] Vaubaillon, J. (2011) The 2011 Draconids meteor shower. IMC 2011 Sibiu, Romania, presentation [9] Vaubaillon, J., Watanabe, J., Sato, M., Horii, S., Koten, P. (2011) The comming 2011 Draconids meteor shower. WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization 39:3, [10] Watanabe, J. and Sato, M. (2008) Activities of Parent Comets and Related Meteor Showers. Earth, Moon, and Planets 102,
5 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) 5 Table 1: Double and multi-station Draconids detected on October 8, 2011 by joined ground based video expedition in Italy. Individual geocentric radiants α G, δ G (J2000.0), V g - geocentric velocity (computed with the assumed v = 23.57km.s 1, M max - absolute maximum brightness, H B - beginning and H E - endpoint height of meteors as well as acronyms of observing cameras are presented. Cameras: Bettola - all sky (BA), Bettola - north (BN), Bettola - south (BS), Cavandola - south (CS), Cavandola - north (CN), Nogara (Pa), Cuneo Ass. Astrofili Bisalta (CU), Ferrara south (FEs), Ferrara north-west (FEn), Fanano (FA), Fanano zenith (FAz), Contigliano - Rieti (TUs3), Teramo north (TUn), Teramo west (TUw). The mean geocentric radiant, the mean geocentric velocity, the mean beginning and terminal height in the observing time interval (17:55:50-23:21:53 UT) are also presented. No Time α G δ G V g M max H B H E Camera [UT] [ ] [ ] [km.s 1 ] [mag] [km] [km] 1 17:55: ± ± ± BA-FEs 2 17:56: ± ± ± BA-CS 3 18:14: ± ± ± TUs3-FEs 4 18:28: ± ± ± CS-FAz 5 18:39: ± ± ± BA-CS 6 18:42: ± ± ± BA-CS 7 19:04: ± ± ± Pa-CN 8 19:07: ± ± ± BA-CN 9 19:07: ± ± ± BA-CN 10 19:11: ± ± ± Pa-CN 11 19:22: ± ± ± FA-Pa-BS 12 19:22: ± ± ± BA-CU 13 19:23: ± ± ± BA-CS 14 19:39: ± ± ± BS-CS 15 19:49: ± ± ± BA-CS-CU 16 19:58: ± ± ± BA-FEn-CN-BN 17 20:00: ± ± ± BA-CS 18 20:03: ± ± ± BA-FA 19 20:11: ± ± ± BA-CS 20 20:15: ± ± ± BA-CS 21 20:17: ± ± ± BA-TUs3-FEs-BN 22 20:18: ± ± ± BA-CS 23 20:20: ± ± ± BA-CN-BN 24 20:21: ± ± ± BA-CS 25 20:27: ± ± ± BA-CU 26 20:31: ± ± ± BA-CN-BN 27 20:31: ± ± ± BA-CS-CU 28 20:34: ± ± ± BA-CS-CU 29 20:37: ± ± ± TUs3-FEs 30 20:46: ± ± ± BA-CS 31 20:49: ± ± ± BA-CU 32 20:51: ± ± ± BA-CU 33 20:55: ± ± ± BA-CS 34 20:57: ± ± ± BA-CN 35 21:02: ± ± ± BA-CS-CU 36 21:04: ± ± ± BA-CN-BN 37 21:05: ± ± ± BA-CS 38 21:15: ± ± ± BA-CU 39 21:32: ± ± ± BA-CS-CU 40 22:01: ± ± ± TUn-TUs :22: ± ± ± BA-FAz 42 23:00: ± ± ± TUw-TUs :21: ± ± ± BN-FEn mean st. dev
6 6 WGN, the Journal of the IMO XX:X (200X) Table 2: Double and multi-station Draconids detected on October 8, 2011 by joined ground based video expedition in Italy. The orbital elements (J2000.0) and observing cameras are presented. Cameras: Bettola - all sky (BA), Bettola - north (BN), Bettola - south (BS), Cavandola - south (CS), Cavandola - north (CN), Nogara (Pa), Cuneo Ass. Astrofili Bisalta (CU), Ferrara south (FEs), Ferrara north-west (FEn), Fanano (FA), Fanano zenith (FAz), Contigliano - Rieti (TUs3), Teramo north (TUn), Teramo west (TUw). The mean orbital elements (J2000.0) from the observing time interval (17:55:50-23:21:53 UT) are also presented. The Draconid fireball EN081005B from 2005 (Koten et al., 2007) is mentioned for comparison as well as the forward integrated orbit (JPL NASA) of the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (1900) to the epoch Oct., No a q e i ω Ω Camera [AU] [AU] [ ] [ ] [ ] ± ± ± ± ± BA-FEs ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± TUs3-FEs ± ± ± ± ± CS-FAz ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± Pa-CN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN ± ± ± ± ± Pa-CN ± ± ± ± ± FA-Pa-BS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BS-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-FEn-CN-BN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-FA ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-TUs3-FEs-BN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN-BN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN-BN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS-CU ± ± ± ± ± TUs3-FEs ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CN-BN ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS ± ± ± ± ± BA-CU ± ± ± ± ± BA-CS-CU ± ± ± ± ± TUn-TUs ± ± ± ± ± BA-FAz ± ± ± ± ± TUw-TUs ± ± ± ± ± BN-FEn mean st. dev EN081005B st. dev P
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