Detection of meteor event images using the SSA400 telescope at the Assy-Turgen Observatory

2024

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DOI 10.31725/0367-7966-2024-234-22-35
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Аннотация

The analysis of space mission data, such as LDEF, reveals that most meteor particles fall within the microgram to milligram range. This range corresponds to meteor event absolute magnitudes from 5-6 mag to 10-11 mag. The data processing based on the results of the most successful meteor monitoring networks (e.g. GMN) and wide-field survey systems like MMT or GWAC demonstrates incompleteness of the detected event number in this magnitude range. As we can see, presentday monitoring systems have lost faint meteors. Hence, developing a telescope with a 40-50cm aperture, a focal ratio of approximately 1:1, and a field of view of several tens of square degrees is a natural progression for the evolution of meteor event monitoring systems. Real-time data processing is necessary for telescopes and cameras due to the significant excess of data compared to typical storage volumes. Therefore, improving the meteor detection algorithms is relevant for separate images and a set of frames. This paper describes our method for detecting meteor events using the SSA400 system (D/F = 400/551 mm). The telescope was developed by astronomers of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan and installed in the Assy-Turgen Observatory. For now, the telescope is used in a wide range of astronomical programs, including monitoring meteor events. The proposed algorithm consists of three stages: 1) Extracting all possible source images in each frame. 2) Applying the Hough transform to this set of sources to detect meteor tracks. 3) Performing peak detection on the set of maximum counts from diagrams in Hough’s space to confirm the detection. The paper proves the high efficiency of the proposed approach.