Solar Radio Astronomy with the Long Wavelength Array

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006spd....37.0816d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #37, #8.16; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.233

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a ground-based interferometric array of up to 50 stations, with an operating frequency range of 20 to 80 MHz. Each station will have about 256 active dipoles with a maximum station-to-station baseline of 400 km. The long baselines and large area, combined with advances in ionospheric calibration, will allow the LWA to achieve angular resolution and sensitivity more than two orders of magnitude better than previous instruments in this frequency range. The LWA will perform a broad range of studies of the Sun in the metric and decametric regime, where a diverse range of emission mechanisms carry information about processes occurring in the solar atmosphere and in interplanetary space. It will also enable low frequency imaging of solar activity and brightness distributions in support of the upcoming STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) observations at lower frequencies. Solar emission observed by the LWA will help us to better understand particle acceleration and shocks in the solar atmosphere and the dynamics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which travel from the sun's lower atmosphere to Earth. Basic research in radio astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory is supported by the Office of Naval Research.

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