The Chant Meteor Procession of 1913 – Towards a Descriptive Model
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
31-38
Received:
5 April 2018
Accepted:
19 May 2018
Published:
28 June 2018
Abstract: From an observational standpoint the Chant Meteor Procession of 9 February, 1913 is particularly remarkable, being especially noted for its long ground track of at least 15,000 km, and for the slow motion and near parallel to the horizon paths adopted by the meteors. The circumstances surrounding the Procession are re-considered here in terms of the successive entry of multiple meteoroid clusters. These clusters are in turn considered to be derived from a temporarily captured Earth orbiting object that has undergone disaggregation. It is suggested that the general observational accounts of the Procession can be explained through the sequential entry of multiple meteoroid clusters that moved through the Earth’s atmosphere on grazing-incident trajectories. It is further suggested that the parent object to the Procession, prior to its breakup, may have been no more than 3 to 4-m across.
Abstract: From an observational standpoint the Chant Meteor Procession of 9 February, 1913 is particularly remarkable, being especially noted for its long ground track of at least 15,000 km, and for the slow motion and near parallel to the horizon paths adopted by the meteors. The circumstances surrounding the Procession are re-considered here in terms of th...
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Ionization Structure of Heavy Metals for Planetary Nebulae
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2018
Pages:
39-48
Received:
21 April 2018
Accepted:
25 May 2018
Published:
3 July 2018
Abstract: The purpose of this work to reproduces the flux of lines emitted by the ionized gas, resulting in a good agreement between observed and predicted line fluxes, temperatures and electron density with the chemical abundances of ionic species with carbon and oxygen rich planetary. The model has been calculated using clouds of dust grains in order to calculate the electron temperature, density, and emission fluxes. The dust grain with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) physics combined with thick shell geometry solves the problem of the heating and allows the fitting of fluxes lines, the electron temperatures and the ionization structure of the nebula. Among other lines, we determined line ratio of CIIλ4267A, [NII] λ5755A, 6584A, 6548A, [SII] λ4078A, 4070A, 6716A, and 6731A and compared the results with the observation data by changing the abundances of C, N, O and S, which are enhanced by a factor of 2. The analysis of the ionization structure of the gas, as well as this calculation of the flux of ions, is presented in this work. Therefore, our result revealed that flux lines like [NII] λ6584A, [OII] λ3727A+29A and [OIII] λ5007A greater than the observed fluxes. The nebulae are found to have low electron temperature than found by the previous author, but the electron density is high.
Abstract: The purpose of this work to reproduces the flux of lines emitted by the ionized gas, resulting in a good agreement between observed and predicted line fluxes, temperatures and electron density with the chemical abundances of ionic species with carbon and oxygen rich planetary. The model has been calculated using clouds of dust grains in order to ca...
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