DETECTION OF RADIO EMISSION FROM FIREBALLS

作者:Obenberger K S*; Taylor G B; Hartman J M; Dowell J; Ellingson S W; Helmboldt J F; Henning P A; Kavic M; Schinzel F K; Simonetti J H; Stovall K; Wilson T L
来源:Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2014, 788(2): L26.
DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/788/2/L26

摘要

We present the findings from the Prototype All-Sky Imager, a back end correlator of the first station of the Long Wavelength Array, which has recorded over 11,000 hr of all-sky images at frequencies between 25 and 75 MHz. In a search of this data for radio transients, we have found 49 long-duration (10 s of seconds) transients. Ten of these transients correlate both spatially and temporally with large meteors (fireballs), and their signatures suggest that fireballs emit a previously undiscovered low frequency, non-thermal pulse. This emission provides a new probe into the physics of meteors and identifies a new form of naturally occurring radio transient foreground.

  • 出版日期2014-6-20