A Broadband All Sky Imager for Riometry, Meteor Radio Afterglows and Transients

Abstract

UNM owns and operates the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) stations for scientific research. Through this project we enabled a wide-band all-sky imaging capability at the LWA-SV station through the purchase of additional hardware and modifications to the networking on site. We also developed the software tools needed to calibrate the wide-band images. The images are automatically ingested into the LWA Data Archive and a sub-band image is displayed in real time. We used observations collected over many months to investigate the spectra of meteor radio afterglows. We anticipate that in the future these capabilities will be of use for image-based riometry as well as studies of sporadic-E.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 2020
Accession Number
AD1183970

Entities

People

  • Greg Taylor

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Afterglows
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bandwidth
  • Broadband
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Frequency
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Ionosphere
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Magnetic Fields
  • New Mexico
  • Physical Properties
  • Physics
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Radio Telescopes
  • Radio Waves
  • Scattering
  • Spacecraft
  • Spectra
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.