HR: 1340h
AN: SH23B-0346    [Abstracts]
TI: STEREO/WAVES antennas calibration: Implications for radio source triangulation
AU: * Oswald, T H
EM: thomas.oswald@oeaw.ac.at
AF: Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, Graz, 8042 Austria
AU: Macher, W
SH23B-0346 AF: Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, Graz, 8042 Austria
AU: Fischer, G
SH23B-0346 AF: Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, Graz, 8042 Austria
AU: Rucker, H O
EM: rucker@oeaw.ac.at
AF: Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, Graz, 8042 Austria
AU: Taubenschuss, U
SH23B-0346 AF: Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, Graz, 8042 Austria
AU: Bougeret, J L
SH23B-0346 AF: Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon Cedex, Paris, 92195 France
AU: Kaiser, M L
SH23B-0346 AF: NASA/GSFC, MC 695, Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 United States
AU: Goetz, K
SH23B-0346 AF: University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455 United States
AB: NASA will launch in April 2006 the two STEREO spacecraft with the radio experiment, called SWAVES, which is designed to observe solar radio emissions by using direction finding capabilities. This method enables the triangulation of radio sources. The present paper provides the latest results on the determination of the effective antenna vectors and the methodology of direction finding. Further it gives some thoughts on the implications of the data interpretation, since higher frequency observations have direction of incidence dependent effective antenna vectors.
DE: 6900 RADIO SCIENCE
DE: 6994 Instruments and techniques (1241)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005