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The turbulent dynamics of nearby and extragalactic gas structures can be studied with the column density power spectrum, which is often described by a broken power-law.In an extragalactic context, the breaks in the power spectra have been…

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The Naval Research Laboratory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory completed implementation of a low frequency capability on the VLA at 73.8 MHz in 1998. This frequency band offers unprecedented sensitivity (~25 mJy/beam) and…

For the first time we present simulation results of the focusing effect of the ionospheric plasma density irregularities, namely, Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs), on solar radio emission by applying a ray-tracing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Artem Koval , Yao Chen , Aleksander Stanislavsky , Anton Kashcheyev , Qing-He Zhang

In this paper, we consider random phase fluctuations imposed during wave propagation through a turbulent plasma (e.g. ionosphere) as a source of additional noise in interferometric visibilities. We derive expressions for visibility variance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 H. K. Vedantham , L. V. E. Koopmans

We investigate the spectral shape, the anisotropy of the wave vector distributions and the anisotropy of the amplitudes of the magnetic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosheath within a broad range of frequencies. We present the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Olga Alexandrova , Catherine Lacombe , Andre Mangeney

Here we discuss our recent investigations of the ionospheric plasma by using very low and low frequency (VLF/LF) radio waves. We give a review of how to detect different low ionospheric reactions (sudden ionospheric disturbances) to various…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Aleksandra Nina , Vladimir M. Čadež , Luka Č. Popović , Vladimir A. Srećković

Observations in the lowest MWA band between $75-100$ MHz have the potential to constrain the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium at redshift $\sim 13-17$. Using 15 hours of MWA data, we analyse systematics in this…

Changes in the sky noise spectrum are used to characterize perturbations in the ionosphere. Observations were made at the same sidereal time on multiple days using a calibrated broadband dipole and radio spectrometer covering 80 to 185 MHz.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman , Juha Vierinen , Raul Monsalve , Thomas Mozdzen

We report on the first detection of ionospheric disturbances caused by short repeated gamma-ray bursts from the magnetar SGR J1550-5418. Very low frequency (VLF) radio wave data obtained in South America clearly show sudden amplitude and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. T. Tanaka , J. P. Raulin , F. C. P. Bertoni , P. R. Fagundes , J. Chau , N. J. Schuch , M. Hayakawa , Y. Hobara , T. Terasawa , T. Takahashi

The ionosphere introduces chromatic distortions on low frequency radio waves, and thus poses a hurdle for 21-cm cosmology. In this paper we introduce time-varying chromatic ionospheric effects on simulated antenna temperature data of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Emma Shen , Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Anastasia Fialkov

Equatorial ionospheric irregularities have been studied in the past and have produced interesting insights into ionospheric physics and processes. Here, we present the initial results of a long-term study of the ionosphere near the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Sumanjit Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta

Inertial-range features of turbulence are investigated using data from experimental measurements of grid turbulence and direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence simulated in a periodic box, both at the Taylor-scale Reynolds…

Many low-frequency radio interferometers are aiming to detect very faint spectral signatures from structures at cosmological redshifts, particularly of neutral Hydrogen using its characteristic 21 cm spectral line. Due to the very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Chris Carilli

We present a study of wave processes in the sunspot region NOAA 12670 on 2017 August 10 observed by the Goode Solar Telescope in the TiO 7057 A and Ha 6563 A spectral lines. To study the distribution of power oscillations and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Robert Sych , Yuzef Zhugzhda , Xiaoli Yan

The Earth's ionosphere refracts radio signals, shifting the apparent position of radio sources. Wide-field measurements with a radio interferometer can measure the ionospheric distortion. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has the ability…

Using the international ground-based network of two-frequency receivers of the GPS navigation system provides a means of carrying out a global, continuous and fully-computerized monitoring of phase fluctuations of signals from…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Afraimovich , V. A. Karachenschev

Context. Turbulence is a key component of molecular cloud structure. It is usually described by a cascade of energy down to the dissipation scale. The power spectrum for subsonic incompressible turbulence is $k^{-5/3}$, while for supersonic…

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of turbulence within the intergalactic medium (IGM), a phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various cosmological and astrophysical processes. In this study, we employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Rui-Nan Li , Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Qin Wu , F. Y. Wang

We report and discuss phase-shift and phase travel time of low-frequency ({\nu} < 5.0 mHz) acoustic waves estimated within the photosphere and photosphere-chromosphere interface regions, utilizing multi-height velocities in the quiet Sun.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Hirdesh Kumar , Brajesh Kumar , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , S. P. Rajaguru

Phase referencing is a standard calibration procedure in radio interferometry. It allows to detect weak sources by using quasi-simultaneous observations of closeby sources acting as calibrators. Therefore, it is assumed that, for each…

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