{"id":141,"date":"2018-11-02T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmn.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:24:16","slug":"scientific-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/scientific-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main operational goal of the project is to establish a decentralized science-grade instrument which observes the night sky every night of the year from as many locations around the world as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The science goals of the project are the following:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Providing the meteor community with real-time awareness of the near-Earth meteoroid environment by publishing orbits of all observed meteors from all around the globe every morning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observing meteor showers, computing their flux, mass indices and orbits to constrain meteor shower prediction models.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observing meteorite-producing fireballs to increase the number of meteorites with known orbits (only ~50 circa 2021, more info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteoriteorbits.info\/\">http:\/\/www.meteoriteorbits.info\/<\/a>) and help constrain meteorite source regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch a video about the scientific goals of the network:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_99782\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAGq-XqD5Po?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2206.11365\"> Vida, D., Erskine, R. C. B., Brown, P. G., Kambulow, J., Campbell-Brown,  M., &amp; Mazur, M. J. (2022). Computing optical meteor flux using  Global Meteor Network data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, accepted.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2205.15423\"> Moorhead, A. V., Clements, T., &amp; Vida, D. (2021). Meteor shower radiant dispersions in Global Meteor Network data. <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, <em>508<\/em>(1), 326-339. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2107.12335.pdf\">Vida, D., \u0160egon, D., Gural, P. S., Brown, P. G., McIntyre, M. J.,  Dijkema, T. J., &#8230; &amp; Zubovi\u0107, D. (2021). The Global Meteor  Network\u2013Methodology and first results. <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, <em>506<\/em>(4), 5046-5074. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2003.05458\">Moorhead, A. V., Clements, T. D., &amp; Vida, D. (2020). Realistic gravitational focusing of meteoroid streams. <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, <em>494<\/em>(2), 2982-2994. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kukic-et-al-2018-Rolling-shutter.pdf\">Kuki\u0107, P., Gural, P., Vida, D., \u0160egon, D. &amp; Merlak, A. (2018) Correction for meteor centroids observed using rolling shutter cameras. <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kukic-et-al-2018-Rolling-shutter.pdf\">WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kukic-et-al-2018-Rolling-shutter.pdf\">, <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kukic-et-al-2018-Rolling-shutter.pdf\">46<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kukic-et-al-2018-Rolling-shutter.pdf\">:5, 154-118.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_sun_skirter_final.pdf\">Vida, D., Mazur, M. J., \u0160egon, D., Kuki\u0107, P., &amp; Merlak, A. (2018). Compressive strength of a skirting Daytime Arietid-first science results from low-cost Raspberry Pi-based meteor stations. <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_sun_skirter_final.pdf\">WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_sun_skirter_final.pdf\">, <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_sun_skirter_final.pdf\">46<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_sun_skirter_final.pdf\">, 113-118.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_first_results-final.pdf\">Vida, D., Mazur, M. J., \u0160egon, D., Zubovi\u0107, D., Kuki\u0107, P., Parag, F., &amp; Macan, A. (2018). First results of a Raspberry Pi based meteor camera system. <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_first_results-final.pdf\">WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_first_results-final.pdf\">, <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_first_results-final.pdf\">46<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018_WGN___RMS_first_results-final.pdf\">, 71-78.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vida_IMC2016_proceedings_final.pdf\">Vida, D., Zubovi\u0107, D., \u0160egon, D., Gural, P., &amp; Cupec, R. (2016). Open-source meteor detection software for low-cost single-board computers. In <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vida_IMC2016_proceedings_final.pdf\">Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference (IMC2016), Egmond, The Netherlands<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vida_IMC2016_proceedings_final.pdf\"> (pp. 2-5).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zubovic_IMC2015_priceedings_final.pdf\">Zubovi\u0107, D., Vida, D., Gural, P., &amp; \u0160egon, D. (2015). Advances in the development of a low-cost video meteor station. In <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zubovic_IMC2015_priceedings_final.pdf\">Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference, Mistelbach, Austria<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zubovic_IMC2015_priceedings_final.pdf\"> (pp. 27-30).<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style='clear:both'><\/div><div  class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/globalmeteornetwork.org\/scientific-mission\/\"><div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"the_champ_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalmeteornetwork.org%2Fscientific-mission%2F\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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