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arXiv 2003.07446astro-ph.IM
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低轨卫星运载火箭群和SpaceX Starlink星座的影响

The Low Earth Orbit Satellite Population and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation

Jonathan C. McDowell

摘要:

我讨论了目前低地球轨道人造地球卫星的数量,并表明拟议的约12,000颗Starlink互联网卫星的“巨型星座”将在600公里以下的地球轨道下部占主导地位,在空气质量< 2时,视纬度而定的面数密度为每平方度0.005至0.01个物体。这样的大型低空卫星在地面观测者看来是明亮的,最初的Starlinks是肉眼可见的物体。我将预期的被照亮的卫星数量建模为纬度、一年中的时间和夜晚时间的函数,并总结了地基天文学可能产生的后果。在冬季,在低纬度地区的主要天文台,卫星在半夜六个小时内不会被照亮。然而,在中纬度地区(45-55度,例如欧洲大部分地区),在黄昏附近的低海拔地区,数百颗卫星可能在黑暗的地方被肉眼观察到。

英文摘要:

I discuss the current low Earth orbit artificial satellite population and show that the proposed `megaconstellation' of circa 12,000 Starlink internet satellites would dominate the lower part of Earth orbit, below 600 km, with a latitude-dependent areal number density of between 0.005 and 0.01 objects per square degree at airmass < 2. Such large, low altitude satellites appear visually bright to ground observers, and the initial Starlinks are naked eye objects. I model the expected number of illuminated satellites as a function of latitude, time of year, and time of night and summarize the range of possible consequences for ground-based astronomy. In winter at lower latitudes typical of major observatories, the satellites will not be illuminated for six hours in the middle of the night. However, at low elevations near twilight at intermediate latitudes (45-55 deg, e.g. much of Europe) hundreds of satellites may be visible at once to naked-eye observers at dark sites.

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