Dynamical modeling validation of parent bodies associated with newly discovered CMN meteor showers

¹ Astronomical Society Istra Pula, Park Monte Zaro 2, 52100 Pula, Croatia
e-mail: damir@astro.hr
² IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, 77 Avenue Denfert Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France
³ Gural Software Development, 351 Samantha Drive, Sterling, Virginia, 20164, USA
⁴ Astronomical Society “Anonymus”, B. Radić 34, 31550 Valpovo, Croatia
⁵ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K8, Canada
⁷ Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Pijerottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
⁸ Višnjan Science and Education Center, Istarska 5, 51463 Višnjan, Croatia
⁹ Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Fričova 298, 251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic

Received: 11 June 2016
Accepted: 25 October 2016

Abstract

Context. Results from previous searches for new meteor showers in the combined Croatian Meteor Network and SonotaCo meteor databases suggested possible parent bodies for several newly identified showers.

Aims. We aim to perform an analysis to validate the connection between the identified showers and candidate parent bodies.

Methods. Simulated particles were ejected from candidate parent bodies, a dynamical modeling was performed and the results were compared to the real meteor shower observations.

Results. From the 13 analysed cases, three were found to be connected with comets, four with asteroids which are possibly dormant comets, four were inconclusive or negative, and two need more observational data before any conclusions can be drawn.