Articles | Volume 22, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-22-1687-2004
© Author(s) 2004. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
08 Apr 2004
Time resolution of cosmic noise observations with acorrelation experiment
Abstract. A radio wave correlation experiment using a Mills Cross technique can be used to observe the cosmic noise intensity from the ground for the purpose of determining the absorption in the ionosphere. To ensure a time resolution of 10 to 20s of the absorption observations, it is necessary that the autocorrelation function of the signal received within a wanted spatial resolution and in a given receiver is >8% of the total signal amplitude incident on that receiver.
Key words. Radio Science (Instruments and techniques; Interferometry; Ionospheric physics)
