GLEAM sources ionospheric position shifts Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Helmboldt J.F.
  2. Hurley-Walker N.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Nearly 200 hours of observing with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope during the Galactic and Extra-galactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey were used to assemble images of ionospheric structure. These images cover a nearly 50 degree-wide area on the sky at a cadence of 10 minutes over many 5-7 hours-long observing runs. They are generated by tracking the apparent motions of ~200-800 cosmic radio sources caused by changes in the transverse gradient of the ionospheric total electron content. Spectral analysis of these images revealed that the dataset was dominated by three distinct signatures. The first is consistent with field-aligned structures within the topside ionosphere/lower plasmasphere previously imaged with the MWA. The second are structures that are relatively large and aligned nearly east/west. Regional weather data implies that these are preferentially detected when there is a noticeable shear within the sub- tropical jet stream, which passes near the MWA. This suggests that this signature may be related to gravity waves launched by jet stream shear. The final signature is consistent with the properties of so-call electro-buoyancy waves that are known to occur at midlatitudes at night. Detections of these were more common when regional sporadic-E was present, supporting a proposed connection between these waves and polarization electric fields that may arise within sporadic-E. We discuss the implications for future observations with the Square Kilometer Array.

Keywords
  1. Interferometry
  2. Earth (planet)
  3. Astrometry
  4. Surveys
  5. Radio sources
  6. Galaxies
  7. Catalogs
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020RaSc...5507106H
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History

2022-02-01T16:53:35Z
Resource record created
2022-02-01T16:53:35Z
Created
2022-09-13T09:03:19Z
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