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most citedCatastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

14 citations · 30 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits

Jack Rayworth, Denis Vida, Pauline Barmby +7

Satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit interfere with ground-based optical astronomy, but the scale of that interference has been hard to measure. Here we report an uncued…

astro-ph.EP2026

From Earth Meteors to Mars: Predicting Where to See the First Martian Meteors

Maximilian Vovk, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida

Predictions of optical meteors at Mars have largely relied on classical single-body ablation models, despite high-resolution terrestrial observations showing that mm-sized meteoroi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Shock wave formation in the thermosphere by an earthgrazing fireball: Empirical evidence for volatile-enhanced hydrodynamic shielding

Elizabeth A. Silber, Denis Vida, Miro Ronac Giannone +7

Hydrodynamic shielding is a theoretically well-established but observationally elusive and experimentally difficult-to-replicate phenomenon with implications that extend far beyond…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Search for Hydroacoustic Signals from Bolides

P. Brown, L. McFadden, D. McCormack +2

Here we present a survey aimed at detecting hydroacoustic signals from fireballs using the six hydrophone stations operated as part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisatio…

astro-ph.EP2026

Meteor statistics I: The distribution of instrumental magnitudes

Althea V. Moorhead, Peter G. Brown, Margaret D. Campbell-Brown +2

The distribution of meteor magnitudes is known to follow an exponential distribution, where the base of this distribution is called the population index. The distribution of observ…

astro-ph.EP2026

Inferring Meteoroid Properties with Dynamic Nested Sampling: A Case Study of Orionid and Capricornid Shower Meteors

Maximilian Vovk, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida +2

Accurate estimation of meteoroid bulk density is crucial for assessing spacecraft impact hazards from sub-millimeter to millimeter-sized meteoroids. Previous studies often used man…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, François Colas +94

Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmo…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

A Statistical Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Meteoroid Physical Properties

Maximilian Vovk, Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown

Meteoroid bulk density is a critical value required for assessing impact risks to spacecraft, informing shielding and mission design. Direct bulk density measurements for sub-milli…

astro-ph.EP2025

A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes

Paul Wiegert, Denis Vida, David L. Clark +3

We report on a pencil-beam survey of the Taurid Swarm, a possible concentration of bodies in the Taurid meteoroid stream associated with the 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter.…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Upper Limit on the Interstellar Meteoroid Flux at Video Sizes from the Global Meteor Network

Paul Wiegert, Vanessa Tran, Cole Gregg +2

Material arriving at our solar system from the Galaxy may be detected at Earth in the form of meteors ablating in our atmosphere. Here we report on a search for interstellar meteor…

astro-ph.EP2025

In Search of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids in the Taurid Resonant Swarm

Jasmine Li, Quanzhi Ye, Denis Vida +8

The Taurid Complex is a large interplanetary system that contains comet 2P/Encke, several meteoroid streams, and possibly a number of near-Earth asteroids. The size and nature of t…

astro-ph.EP2024

CAMO-S: A meteor-tracking spectrograph at the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory

Michael Mazur, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Peter Brown +3

The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory (CAMO) mirror tracking system has been in operation since 2009 and has, to date, produced more than 20,000 two-station meteor observations…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Comparison of Fireball Luminous Efficiency Models using Acoustic Records

Luke McFadden, Peter Brown, Denis Vida

The total energy of a fireball is commonly obtained from optical measurements with an assumed value for luminous efficiency. Acoustic energy measurements offer an independent means…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Not So Fast: A New Catalog of Meteor Persistent Trains

L. E. Cordonnier, K. S. Obenberger, J. M. Holmes +2

This paper presents the results of a nearly two year long campaign to detect and analyze meteor persistent trains (PTs) - self-emitting phenomena which can linger up to an hour aft…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

A reference meteor magnitude for intercomparable fluxes

Althea V. Moorhead, Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown +1

The rate at which meteors pass through Earth's atmosphere has been measured or estimated many times over; existing flux measurements span at least 12 astronomical magnitudes, or ro…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Quantifying the Bulk Density of Southern Delta Aquariid Meteoroids: Insights from the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory

Arazi Pinhas, Zbyszek Krzeminski, Denis Vida +1

Physical properties of ten millimeter-sized meteoroids from the Southern Delta Aquariids (SDA) shower are derived using optical observations from the Canadian Automated Meteor Obse…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Physical Survey of Meteoroid Streams: Comparing Cometary Reservoirs

Nicolas Buccongello, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida +1

In this work, we present an optical survey of mm-sized meteoroids using the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory's (CAMO) mirror tracking system. The system tracks meteors to magn…

astro-ph.EP2023

First holistic modelling of meteoroid ablation and fragmentation: A case study of the Orionids recorded by the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory

Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown +1

18 mm-sized Orionid meteoroids were captured in 2019 and 2020 by the Canadian Automated Observatory's mirror tracking system. Meteor position measurements were made to an accuracy…