Meteor science software ressources

Goal

Exhaustive list all meteor software ressources. If anything is missing by all means please add it here! :-)

Other software ressources

• IMO webpage

MUST USE astronomy librairies

• SPICE (NASA/JPL): available in C, Fortran, IDL and python
• Python: astropy

Multi-station meteor setup optimisation

• IMO QRicht
• FOV3d from Global Meteor Network

Meteor Optical detection

Windows

• FreeTure (free)
• MetRec (free)
• UFOCapture (not free)

Linux

• FreeTure (free)
• ASGARD: not publicly available (R. Weryk, UWO, Canada)

RaspBerry-Pi

• RMS: Croatia Meteor Network: acquisition and detection (from Vida et al. 2016) but better check the Global Meteor Network, including the wiki pages

Meteor Radio detection

• SpectrumLab
• Colorgramme

Lunar Flash

• Windows: LunarScan (Freeware)

Meteor (optical) data exploitation

• R packages by Veljkovic
• Python: CMN_binViewer to organize CAMS data

Note: I have not found (yet) anything regarding radio data exploitation: please let me know if/when such tool is available

Meteor database

• IAU meteor database
• EDMOND
• IMO Visual Meteor Databse
• IMO Databases
• SonotaCo
• CAMS
• AMS Fireball Database and browser

Meteor trajectory and orbit computation (from optical observations)

Publicly available:

• Python: WesternMeteorPyLib: github page (Vida et al. paper in arxiv)
• Python: Determination of alpha-beta parameters (from Gritsevich method) at Desert Fireblal Network github (Samson et al. 2019)
• FreeWare: UFOAnalyzer and UFOOrbit: free but not open source
• Windows tools: Orbit determination Meteor Toolkit (Dmitriev et al. 2015) ; Entry track calculation program by E. Lyytinen (user guide)

Not publicly available:

• C/C++: Metal (R. Weryk, UWO, Canada)
• Python: ESA: MRG_MR (MetRec data handling, Py 2.7), mrg_core (useful routines) ; MRG_CILBO or MRG_Orbit (Koschny and Diaz, WGN 2002) and mrg_test_data (to test everything) ; Australia pipeline (NAME+REF) ; FRIPIPE, the FRIPON Pipeline (with a mix of C, as of 2020 - REF)
• Fortran: FIRBAL (Ceplecha, Borovicka, Spurny et al., Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic)
• IDL: MeteOrbit: the CABERNET pipeline (to be published) + F90 for optimization and accuracy (Vaubaillon, Atreya, Rudawska, Egal, Paris Observatory, France) ; SPARVM (P. Atreya, A. Christou, Armagh Observatory, N.Ireland, UK)

Meteor Spectroscopy

Publicly available:

• None that I know of: please let me know if/when this is not the case

Not Publicly available:

• Python: ESA MRG_spectrum (Rudawska et al. 2020)

Meteorite Dark flight and strewn field

Not publicly available:

• Fortran: FIRBAL (Ceplecha, Borovicka, Spurny et al., Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic)
• Python: FRIPIPE: the FRIPON pipeline (with a mix of C, as of 2020)

Numerical Simulations

Freely available

• ASMODEUS (Balaz et al., Comenius U., Slovakia): observation calibration
• Pintem: numerical integration of meteoroid streams in the Solar System by J. Vaubaillon 2005: not super-friendly version shared on request
• Particle distribution in meteoroid stream simulation (D. Kastinen)
• Space Object Radar Tracking Simulator, for radio obervations (D. Kastinen)

Not available

• SWARMS (Simulator for Wide Area Recording of Meteors from Space) from Bouquet et al. 2014

Miscalenaous codes

• Croatia Meteor Network