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Dear Friends,

I would like to draw your attention to the paper entitled "An artificial
meteors database as a test for the presence of weak showers" by A. Olech
and M. Wisniewski which is accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysics. The abstract of this paper is given at the end of this
e-mail.

The astro-ph number of the paper is 0201023 but due to the size
limitations at the xxx.lanl.gov server it has reduced image quality.
Thus I recommend to download the full resolution version from the
following URL: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~olech/SIM/
There are two formats of the paper - olech.ps.gz (gzipped PostScript
with size 770kB) and olech.pdf (with size 653kB).

We will be able to make some minor corrections during the proof reading
so we would be grateful for any comments. Thanks!

A. Olech


Title: "An artificial meteors database as a test for the presence of 
weak showers"
Authors: A. Olech and M. Wisniewski

Abstract: We have constructed an artificial meteor database resembling
in all details the real sample collected by the observers of the Comets
and Meteors Workshop in the years 1996-1999. The artificial database
includes the sporadic meteors and also events from the following
showers: Perseids, Aquarid complex, Alpha Capricornids, July Pegasids
and Sagittarids. This database was searched for the presence of the
radiants of two weak showers: Alpha Cygnids and Delphinids. The lack of
these radiants in the artificial database and their existence in the
real observations suggests that Alpha Cygnids and Delphinids are the
real showers and their radiants could not be formed as an effect of
intersections of back prolongated paths of meteors belonging to other
showers.


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