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Interferometric measurements with arrays of radio antennas are a powerful and widely used technique in astronomy. Recently, this technique has been revisited for the reconstruction of extensive air showers [1]. This radio-interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-16 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

We present a proof of concept on the coupling of radio astronomical receivers and spectrometers with chemical reactorsand the performances of the resulting setup for spectroscopy and chemical simulations in laboratory astrophysics. Several…

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) spectroscopic survey aims to deliver high-quality low-resolution ($R > 200$) slitless spectra for hundreds of millions of targets down to a limiting magnitude of about 21 mag, distributed within a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Haibo Yuan , Dingshan Deng , Yang Sun

With the low Earth orbit environment becoming increasingly populated with artificial satellites, rockets, and debris, it is important to understand the effects they have on radio astronomy. In this work, we undertake a multi-frequency,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Dylan Grigg , Steven Tingay , Steve Prabu , Marcin Sokolowski , Balthasar Indermuehle

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20 - 106 GHz. MAP contains 20 differential radiometers built with…

Astrocombs are ideal spectrograph calibrators whose limiting precision can be derived using a second, independent, astrocomb system. We therefore analyse data from two astrocombs (one 18 GHz and one 25 GHz) used simultaneously on the HARPS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Dinko Milaković , Luca Pasquini , John K Webb , Gaspare Lo Curto

We report characterization results for an engineering prototype of a next-generation low-frequency radio astronomy array. This prototype, which we refer to as the Aperture Array Verification System 0.5 (AAVS0.5), is a sparse pseudo-random…

Radio observations of stars trace the plasma conditions and magnetic field properties of stellar magnetospheres and coronae. Depending on the plasma conditions at the emitter site, radio emission in the metre- and decimetre-wave bands is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Timothy W. H. Yiu , Harish K. Vedantham , Joseph R. Callingham , Maximilian N. Günther

Low-frequency radio observations have been expected to serve as a powerful tool for Space Weather (SW) observations for decades. Radio observations are sensitive to a wide range of SW-related observations ranging from emissions from coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Puja Majee

This paper provides a framework for the incorporation of the wavefront sensor measurements in the context of observing modes in which the science camera takes millisecond exposures. In this formulation, the wavefront sensor measurements…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Richard A. Frazin

presented. The 2.38 -- 4.08 micron wavelength-range of band 1 of ISO-SWS (Short-Wavelength Spectrometers on board of the Infrared Space Observatory) in which many different molecules -- with their own dependence on each of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 L. Decin , B. Vandenbussche , C. Waelkens , G. Decin , K. Eriksson , B. Gustafsson , B. Plez , A. J. Sauval

We have performed a statistical study of $152$ Type III radio bursts observed by Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)/Waves between May 2007 and February 2013. We have investigated the flux density between $125$kHz and $16$MHz.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-09 V. Krupar , M. Maksimovic , O. Santolik , E. P. Kontar , B. Cecconi , S. Hoang , O. Kruparova , J. Soucek , H. Reid , A. Zaslavsky

We have mapped the total sky brightness at 1465 MHz in two adjacent 60-degree declination bands with the portable 5.5-m parabolic reflector of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an on-going international collaboration to survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tello , T. Villela , G. F. Smoot , S. Torres , M. Bersanelli

Radio pulses are emitted during the development of air showers, where air showers are generated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere. These nanosecond short pulses are presently investigated by various…

Purpose: The subject of research is the spatio-temporal charged particles in the Earth's magnetosphere outside the South Atlantic magnetic Anomaly during the 11-year cycle of solar activity minimum. The work aims at searching for and…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 O. V. Dudnik , O. V. Yakovlev

Radio emission from stars can be used, e.g., to study ionized winds or stellar flares. The radio emission is faint and studies have been limited to few objects. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will bring a survey ability to the topic of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Bin Yu , Albert Zijlstra , Biwei Jiang

This paper presents a case study from a single, six-hour observing period to illustrate the application of techniques developed for interferometric radio telescopes to the spectral analysis of observations of ionospheric fluctuations with…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Joseph Helmboldt , Huib Intema

This paper aims to reconstruct the internal structure of a two-dimensional test object via numerically simulated full-wave time domain radar tomography with the presence of wavelength-induced (WI) uncertainties, following from a complex…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Yusuf Oluwatoki Yusuf , Astrid Dufaure , Liisa-Ida Sorsa , Christelle Eyraud , Sampsa Pursiainen

Satellite radar altimetry is one of the most powerful techniques for measuring sea surface height variations, with applications ranging from operational oceanography to climate research. Over open oceans, altimeter return waveforms…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Ribana Roscher , Bernd Uebbing , Jürgen Kusche