Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Four Nancay Jovian events near Solar conjunction

Details extracted from the Decametric Array quicklooks
10 to 40 MHz
My thanks to Paris Observatory

Probability maps coded by Junpei Azuma, Imai Laboratory, Kochi National College of Technology, Japan



Io-B 100128
About 23 degrees from the Sun, before conjunction




Io-C 100203
About 19 degrees from the Sun, before conjunction



Non-Io-A 100329
About 23 degrees from the Sun, after conjunction




Io-B 100402
About 26 degrees from the Sun, after conjunction
With ionospheric modulations in LHP


Sunday, April 25, 2010

Non-Io-B 050313 high resolution spectra from the UTR-2 array

Ryabov V. B. et al. 2010 provides an example of high resolution S burst spectra obtained with the 2040 dipole UTR-2 array (Ukrainian T-shape Radiotelescope Mark 2)


Map coded by Junpei Azuma, Imai Laboratory, Kochi National College of Technology, Japan


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Detail A center
The resolution is 4 kHz 250 us

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Juno assembly started April 2010

Lockheed Martin started to assemble Juno April 1, in Denver Colorado.
Launch August 2011, arrival to Jupiter July 2016.

Radiation protection vault for the electronics being lifted on top of the propulsion system.

Propulsion system


Illustrations of Juno orbits relative to the Jovian magnetosphere and the radiation belts.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Long Wavelength Array progress April 2010

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the first Long Wavelength Array Station was held on April 1 2010, near the center of the Very Large Array in New Mexico. The LWA radio telescope will operate in the 10 to 88 MHz band, with many stations located in the State of New Mexico.

LWA-1 station array


Visitors next to one of the "Tied-Fork" dipole pairs.

This is the LWA page at the University of New Mexico.