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This paper presents research on polar cap ionosphere space weather phenomena conducted during the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action ES0803 from 2008 to 2012. The main part of the work has been directed toward the…

Advancements in VLBI instrumentation, driven by the geodetic community's goal of achieving positioning accuracy of 1 mm and stability of 0.1 mm/y, have led to the development of new broadband systems. Here, we assess the potential of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 A. Jaradat , G. Molera Calvés , J. Edwards , S. Ellingsen , T. McCarthy , J. Morgan

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding turbulent astrophysical plasmas in past decades including, notably, the solar wind and the interstellar medium. In the case of the solar wind, much of this progress has relied on in situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Tim Bastian , James Cordes , Justin Kasper , Adam Kobelski , Kelly Korreck , Gregory Howe , Steven Spangler , Chadi Salem , Angelos Vourlidas

We present a study of the solar wind over different periods of the solar cycle, specifically focussing on the minimum between solar cycles 24 and 25, and the active, ascending phase of solar cycle 25. With the use of interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 A. Waszewski , J. S. Morgan , R. Ekers , M. Johnston-Hollitt , M. C. M. Cheung , N. D. R. Bhat , R. Chhetri , S. C. Fu

Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) induces intensity fluctuations in small angular size astronomical radio sources via the distortive effects of spatially and temporally varying electron density associated with outflows from the Sun. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay

Space-based interferometric gravitational wave instruments such as the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observe gravitational waves by measuring changes in the light travel time between widely-separated spacecraft. One…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Oliver Jennrich , Nora Lutzgendorf , James Ira Thorpe , Jacob Slutsky , Curt Cutler

We have used the Fisher matrix formalism to quantify the prospects of detecting the z = 3.35 redshifted 21-cm HI power spectrum with the upcoming radio-imterferometric array OWFA. OWFA's frequency and baseline coverage spans comoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Somnath Bharadwaj , Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Sk. Saiyad Ali

Radio remote sensing of the heliosphere using spacecraft radio signals has been used to study the near-sun plasma in and out of the ecliptic, close to the sun, and on spatial and temporal scales not accessible with other techniques. Studies…

We present the first dedicated observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). We have developed a synthesis imaging technique, tailored to the properties of modern "large-N" low-frequency radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 J . S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Ekers , R. Chhetri , M. Tokumaru , P. K. Manoharan , S. Tremblay , M. M. Bisi , B. V. Jackson

We present multi-wavelength scatter broadening observations of 47 pulsars, made with the Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The GMRT observations have been made in the phased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

We report on a measurement of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. Although this proof-of-concept observation utilised just 3 seconds of data on a single source,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Rajan Chhetri , John Morgan , Vanessa Moss , Ron Ekers , Danica Scott , Keith Bannister , Cherie K. Day , Adam T. Deller , Ryan M. Shannon

Solar-wind 3-D reconstruction tomography based on interplanetary scintillation (IPS) studies provides fundamental information for space-weather forecasting models, and gives the possibility to determine heliospheric column densities. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 C. Tiburzi , B. V. Jackson , L. Cota , G. M. Shaifullah , R. A. Fallows , M. Tokumaru , P. Zucca

Recent observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) at radio frequencies have proved to be a powerful tool for probing the solar environment from the ground. But how far back does this tradition really extend? Our survey of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Emily F. Kerrison , Ron D. Ekers , John Morgan , Rajan Chhetri

The TianQin space Gravitational Waves (GW) observatory will contain 3 geocentric and circularly orbiting spacecraft with an orbital radius of 10^5 km, to detect the GW in the milli-hertz frequency band. Each spacecraft pair will establish a…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Ling-Feng Lu , Wei Su , Xuefeng Zhang , Zhao-Guo He , Hui-Zong Duan , Yuan-Ze Jiang , Hsien-Chi Yeh

We use the Fisher matrix formalism to predict the prospects of measuring the redshifted 21-cm power spectrum in different $k$-bins using observations with the upcoming Ooty Wide Field Array (OWFA) which will operate at $326.5 {\rm MHZ}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sk. Saiyad Ali

We have conducted the first systematic search for interday variability in a large sample of extragalactic radio sources at 15 GHz. From the sample of 1158 radio-selected blazars monitored over a $\sim$10 year span by the Owens Valley Radio…

Radio spectroscopy provides a unique inspection perspective for solar and space weather research, which can reveal the plasma and energetic electron information in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. However, Radio-Frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Peijin Zhang , André R. Offringa , Pietro Zucca , Kamen Kozarev , Mattia Mancini

Surveys for transient and variable phenomena can be confounded by the presence of extrinsic variability such as refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS). We have developed an all-sky model for RISS which can predict variability on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-26 P. J. Hancock , E. G. Charlton , J-P. Macquart , N. Hurley-Walker

We study the impact of ionospheric disturbances on the Earth's environment caused by the solar events that occurred from 20 April to 31 May 2010, using observations from the Mexican Array Radio Telescope (MEXART). During this period of…