Interferometric observation of Cygnus-А discrete radiosource scintillations at Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter radar-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Interferometric observation of Cygnus-А discrete radiosource scintillations at Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter radar

Published:2016-03-17 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:24-31
ISSN:2412-4737
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Author:

Глоба Мария¹,Globa Mariia²,Васильев Роман¹,Vasilyev Roman²,Кушнарев Дмитрий¹,Kushnarev Dmitriy²,Медведев Андрей¹,Medvedev Andrey²

Affiliation:

1. Институт солнечно-земной физики СО РАН

2. Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics SB RAS

Abstract

We propose a new method for analysis of data from Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar. The method allows us to accomplish interferometric observation of discrete cosmic radiosource characteristics. In this study, we analyzed ionospheric scintillations of the radio source Cygnus-A. Observations were made in 2013 during regular radar sessions within 5–15 days for different seasons, and the effective time of observation was 15–30 minutes per day. For interferometric analysis, the properties of correlation (coherence) coefficient of two independent recording channels were used. The statistical analysis of data from independent channels allows us to construct two-dimensional histograms of radiosource brightness distribution with period of 18 s and to determine parameters (the maximum position and the histogram width) representing position and angular size of radiosource for each histogram. It is shown that the change of statistical characteristics does not correlate with fluctuations in power (scintillations) of the signal caused by radiowave propagation through ionospheric irregularities.

Publisher

Infra-M Academic Publishing House

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Atmospheric Science,Geophysics

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