RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Preliminary results from the 2011-2012 moon impact flashes monitoring compaign
A1 Madiedo Gil, José María
A1 Ortiz Moreno, José Luis
A1 Morales, Nicolás
AB The identification and analysis offlashes produced by the impact of meteoroids on thelunar surface is one of the techniques suitable for thestudy of the flux of interplanetary matter impacting theEarth. The first attempts to identify impact flashesproduced by large meteoroids on the lunar surface bymeans of telescopic observations date back to 1997[1]. Thus, impact flashes have been unambiguouslydetected during the maximum activity period of severalmajor meteor showers by using this technique, andflashes of sporadic origin have been also recorded [2-9]. This method has the advantage that the area coveredby one single detection instrument is much largerthan the atmospheric volume monitored by meteordetectors on Earth. It can be employed when the illuminatedfraction of the lunar disk varies between 10and 60 %, i.e., during the first and last quarters. Atleast two telescopes must operate in parallel imagingthe same area on the Moon in order to discard falsedetections produced by other phenomena such as, forinstance, cosmic rays.Our team is performing a monitoring of the nightside of the Moon from our observatory in Sevilla. Thislocation provides very favourable statistics of clearnights per year. We employ several telescopesequipped with high-sensitivity CCD video camerasand we have also developed our own software to identifyand analyze impact flashes. Here we present a preliminaryanalysis of the main lunar impact flashes recordedduring our 2011 and 2012 campaigns.
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9367
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9367
LA eng
NO Madiedo Gil, J.M., Ortiz Moreno, J.L., Morales, N.: "Preliminary results from the 2011-2012 moon impact flashes monitoring compaign".  En: 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (The Woolands, Texas, march 18-22, 2013)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026