HR: 1400h
AN: SH23A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Study of Radio sources and interferences detected by MEXART
AU: * Villanueva Hernandez, P
EM: pablovillanueva@cienias.unam.mx
AF: Posgrado en Ciencias de la tierra, Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM, Departamento de Fisica Espacial Instituto de Geofisica,UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacan Mexico D.F. / MEXICO , Mexico, 5808904510, Mexico
AU: Gonzalez Esparza, J A
EM: americo@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Posgrado en Ciencias de la tierra, Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM, Departamento de Fisica Espacial Instituto de Geofisica,UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacan Mexico D.F. / MEXICO , Mexico, 5808904510, Mexico
AU: Carrillo, A
EM: armando@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM, Departamento de Fisica Espacial Instituto de Geofisica,UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacan Mexico D.F. / MEXICO, Mexico, 5808904510, Mexico
AU: Andrade, E
EM: eandrade@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM, Departamento de Fisica Espacial Instituto de Geofisica,UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacan Mexico D.F. / MEXICO, Mexico, 5808904510, Mexico
AU: Jeyacumar, S
EM: sjk@fisesp.igeofcu.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM, Departamento de Fisica Espacial Instituto de Geofisica,UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacan Mexico D.F. / MEXICO, Mexico, 5808904510, Mexico
AU: Kurtz, S
EM: s.kurtz@astrosmo.unam.mx
AF: Centro de radioastronomia y Astrofísica de Morelia UNAM, Antigua Carretera a Patzcuaro # 8701 Ex-Hda. San Jose de la Huerta Morelia, Michoacán. , Morelia, 58089,
AB: The Mexican Array Radio Telescope (MEXART) is a radio telescope that will perform studies of solar wind disturbances using the Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) technique. The radiotelescope is its final calibration stage, and in this work we report two testings: the interference signals detected around the operation frequency, and the transit of the main radio sources detected by individual lines of 64 dipoles. These radio sources are: Sun, Casiopea, Crab nebula, Cygnus and Virgo. These testings allow us to know the response of the array elements in order to calibrate them. The final operation of the MEXART requires that the signal detected and transmitted by each East-West line of 64 dipoles arrives at the butler matrix (control room) with the same phase and amplitude.
DE: 0604 Antenna arrays
DE: 0609 Antennas
DE: 0674 Signal processing and adaptive antennas (6974)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly