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A Proposal For Mapping The Sky At Deka-Hectometer Wavelengths: The LFSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

K.W. Weiler
Affiliation:
E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory
B.K. Dennison
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
K.J. Johnston
Affiliation:
E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory
R.S. Simon
Affiliation:
E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory
J.H. Spencer
Affiliation:
E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory
W.C. Erickson
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
M.L. Kaiser
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
H.V. Cane
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
M.D. Desch
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
L.M. Hammarstrom
Affiliation:
E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory

Abstract

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The concept is developed for a scientific space mission to survey the entire sky and to image individual sources at frequencies between 1.5 and 26.3 MHz, a frequency range over which the Earth's ionosphere transmits poorly or not at all. The required technology already exists and there are many important scientific goals which can be attained with high sensitivity, high resolution space observations at the lowest frequencies available to astronomy from within the absorbing interstellar plasma of our own Galaxy.

Type
Part II: Current Research
Copyright
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