Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13.1105b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Nov. 1986, p. 1105-1108.
Physics
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Auroral Zones, Interferometry, Kilometric Waves, Satellite Observation, Earth Magnetosphere, Fourier Transformation, International Sun Earth Explorers, Radiation Sources
Scientific paper
The first satellite interferometric measurements of auroral kilometric radiation were performed by cross-correlating the waveforms detected by the ISEE 1 and ISEE 2 spacecraft. High correlations were found for all projected baselines, with little or no tendency to decrease even for the longest baselines. For incoherent radiation, the correlation as a function of the baseline is the Fourier transform of the source brightness distribution, implying an average source region diameter for all of the bursts analyzed of less than about 10 km. For such small source diameters, the required growth rates are too large to be explained by existing incoherent theories, strongly indicating that the radiation must be coherent. For coherent radiation, an upper limit to the source region diameter can be inferred instead from the angular width of the radiation pattern. The angular width of the radiation pattern must be at least 2.5 deg, implying that the diameter of the source must be less than about 20 km.
Baumback Mark M.
Calvert Wesley
Gurnett Donald A.
Shawhan Stanley D.
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