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Hectometer and Kilometer Solar Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

R. G. Stone
R. G. Stone*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771

Abstract

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Three dimensional “snapshots” of the large scale solar magnetic field topology as well as the solar wind electron density distribution from about 0.1 to 1 AU are obtained by tracking traveling solar radio bursts at hectometer and kilometer wavelengths with instruments aborad the ISEE-3 satellite and the HELIOS-2 solar probe. Both instruments observe in the frequency range from 30 kHz to 1 MHz and both are equipped with dipole antennas located in the vehicle spin plane. ISEE-3 also has a dipole along the spin axis and the signals from the two ISEE-3 antennas are combined to give the azimuth and elevation angles of the radio source. Triangulation between HELIOS-2 and ISEE-3 provides the additional observation necessary to uniquely determine the position of the radio source in space at each observing frequency. The techniques will be outlined, and illustrated by an example of the three dimensional field geometry and electron density distribution determined by the observations.

Type
Session VI - Solar Bursts - Decimeter and Low Frequency Observations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 86: Radio Physics of the Sun , 1980 , pp. 405 - 413
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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