Title: Luminous Efficiency Estimates of Meteors -I. Uncertainty analysis,
Abstract: The luminous efficiency of meteors is poorly known, but critical for
determining the meteoroid mass. We present an uncertainty analysis of the
luminous efficiency as determined by the classical ablation equations, and
suggest a possible method for determining the luminous efficiency of real
meteor events. We find that a two-term exponential fit to simulated lag data is
able to reproduce simulated luminous efficiencies reasonably well.