Magnetospheric radio tomographic imaging with IMAGE and Wind

Details Magnetospheric radio tomographic imaging with IMAGE and Wind Magnetospheric radio tomographic imaging with IMAGE and Wind

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011jgra..11612208z&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 116, Issue A12, CiteID A12208

Physics

Radio Science: Magnetospheric Physics (2700), Radio Science: Remote Sensing, Radio Science: Tomography And Imaging (7270, 8180)

Scientific paper

Recent theoretical studies have shown the feasibility and potential scientific value of radio tomographic imaging of Earth's magnetosphere by measuring Faraday rotation and phase difference (or group delay) of coherent radio wave signals. On 15 August 2000, a 6 W linearly polarized 828 kHz signal transmitted by the Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) on the IMAGE spacecraft was clearly detected by WAVES X and Z antennas on Wind spacecraft. Following our previous analysis of the path-integrated product change of the magnetic field and plasma density based on the spin rate measurement, we report here Faraday rotation measured from absolute antenna orientation using the phase difference between the spin-phase modeled RPI signal and the WAVES X- and Z-antenna received RPI signals. The new approach gives Faraday rotation without the mod (π) ambiguity. The average electron density extracted along a typical signal propagation path over a 1 hour measurement window agrees well with empirical models of the northern polar region derived from years of measurements. Finally, we demonstrate preliminary 2-D radio tomographic imaging of magnetospheric plasma density using the Faraday rotation measurement.

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