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Low-frequency radio astronomy is limited by severe ionospheric distortions below 50 MHz and complete reflection of radio waves below 10-30 MHz. Shielding of man-made interference from long-range radio broadcasts, strong natural radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 Sebastian Jester , Heino Falcke

The active broadband (1 kHz-100 MHz) tripole antenna now envisaged to be placed on the European Lunar Lander located at the Lunar South Pole allows for sensitive measurements of the exosphere and ionosphere, and their interaction with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marc Klein Wolt , Amin Aminaei , Philippe Zarka , Jan-Rutger Schrader , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Heino Falcke

Low radio frequency experiments performed on Earth are contaminated by both ionospheric effects and radio frequency interference (RFI) from Earth-based sources. The lunar farside provides a unique environment above the ionosphere where RFI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-15 Neil Bassett , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher , Robert MacDowall

By volume, more than 99% of the solar system has not been imaged at radio frequencies. Almost all of this space (the solar wind) can be traversed by fast electrons producing radio emissions at frequencies lower than the terrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-04 R. J. MacDowall , T. J. Lazio , S. D. Bale , J. Burns , W. M. Farrell , N. Gopalswamy , D. L. Jones , K. W. Weiler

Detecting primordial fluctuations from the cosmic dark ages requires extremely large low-frequency radio telescope arrays deployed on the far side of the Moon. The antenna of such an array must be lightweight, easily storable and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Suonanben , Fengquan Wu , Kai He , Shijie Sun , Wei Zhou , Minquan Zhou , Cong Zhang , Jiaqin Xu , Qisen Yan , Shenzhe Xu , Jiacong Zhu , Zhao Wang , Ke Zhang , Haitao Miao , Jixia Li , Yougang Wang , Tianlu Chen , Xuelei Chen

The far side of the Moon, shielded from terrestrial radio frequency interference and beyond the influence of Earth's ionosphere, should offer a uniquely quiet environment for radio astronomy and cosmological experiments. The radio sky below…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Kaja M. Rotermund , Aritoki Suzuki , Stuart D. Bale , Anže Slosar

A radio telescope placed in lunar orbit, or on the surface of the Moon's farside, could be of great value to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The advantage of such a telescope is that it would be shielded by the body of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Eric J. Michaud , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Jamie Drew , S. Pete Worden

A new era of exploration of the low radio frequency Universe from the Moon will soon be underway with landed payload missions facilitated by NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. CLPS landers are scheduled to deliver two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Jack O. Burns , Robert MacDowall , Stuart Bale , Gregg Hallinan , Neil Bassett , Alex Hegedus

The origin and evolution of structure in the Universe could be studied in the Dark Ages. The highly redshifted HI signal between 30 < z < 80 is the only observable signal from this era. Human radio interference and ionospheric effects limit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-24 Zoe A. Le Conte , Martin Elvis , Philipp A. Gläser

Radio detection of Ultra High Energetic Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (UHECRv) which hit the Moon has been investigated in recent years. In preparation for near-future lunar science missions, we discuss technical requirements for radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Amin Aminaei , Linjie Chen , Hamid R. Pourshaghaghi , Stijn Buitink , Marc Klein-Wolt , Leon V. E. Koopmans , Heino Falcke

The Radio wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) instrument is a radio telescope system designed to characterize the radio and plasma wave environment of the nearside lunar surface at frequencies between…

We discuss low frequency radio astronomy from the moon, predominantly in the context of studying the neutral intergalactic medium during cosmic reionization using the HI 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. The epoch of reionization is the next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli , J. N. Hewitt , A. Loeb

Observations at radio wavelengths address key problems in astrophysics, astrobiology, and lunar structure including the first light in the Universe (the Epoch of Reionization), the presence of magnetic fields around extrasolar planets,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Lazio , R. J. Macdowall , J. Burns , L. Demaio , D. L. Jones , K. W. Weiler

The non transparency and severe propagation effects of the terrestrial ionosphere make it impossible for Earth based instruments to study the universe at low radio frequencies. An exploration of the low frequency radio window with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Divya Oberoi , Jean-Louis Pinçon

The radio sky at lower frequencies, particularly below 20 MHz, is expected to be a combination of increasingly bright non-thermal emission and significant absorption from intervening thermal plasma. The sky maps at these frequencies cannot…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Akhil Jaini , Avinash A. Deshpande , Sainath Bitragunta

Radiowave Observations on the Lunar Surface of the photo-Electron Sheath instrument (ROLSES- 1) onboard the Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander represents NASA's first radio telescope on the Moon, and the first United States…

We explore the feasibility of using the Moon as a detector of extremely high energy (>10^19 eV) cosmic rays and neutrinos. The idea is to use the existing radiotelescopes on Earth to look for short pulses of Cherenkov radiation in the GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , E. Zas

The ultra-long wavelength sky ($\nu\lesssim 30$ MHz) is still largely unexplored, as the electromagnetic wave is heavily absorbed and distorted by the ionosphere on Earth. The far-side of the Moon, either in lunar-orbit or on lunar-surface,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Qige Ao , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Huanyuan Shan , Xuelei Chen

Ground-based observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hindered by the ionosphere of the Earth and radio frequency interference. To map the sky at these low frequencies, we have proposed the Discovering the Sky at the Longest wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yuan Shi , Yidong Xu , Li Deng , Fengquan Wu , Lin Wu , Qizhi Huang , Shifan Zuo , Jingye Yan , Xuelei Chen

Earth-based observations are complicated by the opacity of Earth's ionosphere at very low frequencies and strong man-made radio frequency interference. This explains long standing interest in building a low frequency radio telescope on the…

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