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Calibration of the STEREO/WAVES Instrument in the Solar Wind
Krupař, Vratislav ; Maksimovic, M. ; Cecconi, B. ; Santolík, Ondřej
The S/WAVES instrument onboard the STEREO spacecraft measures electromagnetic waves in the solar wind. This unique project allows us to investigate properties of type II and type III radio bursts related with solar flares and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the interplanetary medium, respectively. In this paper we present properties of the High Frequency Receiver (HFR) receiver which covers the frequency range 125 kHz–16.025 MHz. We have compared the gains from the two HFR channels and we have found significant variations of these gains with time. We have proposed a solution for correcting these gain variations and improving the S/WAVES HFR calibrations in order to get as accurate goniopolarimetric measurements as possible.
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Estimation of the Apparent Source Size of Solar Radio Emissions Using SVD: An Application to Type III Radio Bursts at Long Wavelengths Observed by STEREO and Wind
Krupař, Vratislav ; Santolík, Ondřej ; Cecconi, B. ; Maksimovic, M.
Type III radio bursts are intense solar radio emissions. They are frequently observed by the S/Waves instruments on-board the STEREO spacecraft. We describe a wave propagation analysis using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) which can be directly applied to spectral matrices measured by the High Frequency Receiver (HFR; a part of the S/Waves experiment). We have found an empirical relation between the decomposed spectral matrices and apparent source sizes for waves with a low degree of polarization. We present a joint observation of a type III radio burst by the STEREO and Wind spacecraft during small separation distances. We obtain consistent results for the apparent source size and k-vector direction using different analysis method for the measurements of the STEREO and Wind spacecraft. We demonstrate that SVD can be an effective tool for the wave analysis of radio emissions with very extended sources.
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Možný vliv zemětřesení na nízkofrekvenční elektromagnetické vlny: pozorování na družici s nízkou orbitou
Němec, František ; Santolík, Ondřej ; Parrot, M.
We present results of a statistical study of VLF (up to 10 kHz) wave intensity measured by a low-altitude spacecraft in the vicinity of earthquakes. The data from the French DEMETER spacecraft (altitude about 700 km, nearly Sun-synchronous orbit) that was specially developed for such kind of studies are used. The recently developed two-step data processing method is briefly introduced and the main obtained results are reviewed. Finally, a simple independent test of the obtained results is done in order to give an additional evidence for the existence of possible seismic-related effect. Our results indicate that there is a decrease of power spectral density of electric field fluctuations shortly (0-4 hours) before the time of the main shock. This decrease was observed close to surface earthquakes (depth less than 40 km) with magnitude larger than or equal to 4.8 and only during the night. No similar effect was observed for deep earthquakes nor during the day.
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Analýza kritických frekvencí v ionosféře
Mošna, Zbyšek ; Šauli, Petra ; Santolík, Ondřej
Ionosphere is a highly variable system. The most used way how to describe the state of ionosphere is to deal with the critical frequencies which directly reflect the maximum electron concentration in an ionospheric layer. Ionosphere, like many natural systems, exhibits scaling properties. In this paper, we show results of the scaling analysis of ionospheric data from Pruhonice observatory, geomagnetic, and solar flux data from 1957-2005.
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Příprava databáze pro studii škálovacích fenoménů v ionosféře
Mošna, Zbyšek ; Šauli, Petra ; Santolík, Ondřej
The correct forecast of the state of the ionosphere requires understanding of all the effects which influence its behaviour as well as the extent of the relationships in the system. A convenient way how to analyse large data sets and describe the coupling or disconnection at various time scales is to study the scaling phenomena. For the computations of scaling properties of the processes that influence the ionosphere dynamics we have prepared a database of several characteristics that describe the coupling processes in the solar-magnetosphere-ionosphere system. This data are of sufficient length and sampling density to verify the presence or absence of links between the processes under study.
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