Title
High-altitude incoherent-scatter measurements at Jicamarca
Date Issued
01 February 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
In an attempt to reproduce experimental results obtained in the early days of operations, electron density profiles have been measured at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory at altitudes reaching L=2. The methodology involves using a combination of pulses, including pulses as long as 4 ms, and processing the data with matched filtering. The modern experiments are complicated by systemic, time-dependent bias in the noise estimators as well as by clutter from satellites and space debris, including a geosynchronous satellite. Ultimately, experiment performance comparable to what was achieved in the original experiments could be achieved and should be surpassed in future experiments when all four of the Jicamarca transmitters will be utilized.
Start page
2292
End page
2299
Volume
122
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85013055733
Source
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
ISSN of the container
21699380
Sponsor(s)
The Jicamarca Radio Observatory is a facility of the Instituto Geofisíco del Perú operated with support from NSF award AGS-1433968 through Cornell. The help of the staff is much appreciated. Data used for this publication are available through the Madrigal database at http://madrigal.haystack.mit.edu/madrigal/.
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