Planetary Radio Emissions VII Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on
Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions held at Graz, Austria, September 15–17, 2010
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Planetary Radio Emissions VII Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on
Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions held at Graz, Austria, September 15–17, 2010
ISBN 978-3-7001-7125-6 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-7246-8 Online Edition
Helmut Rucker
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria William Kurth Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Philippe Louarn Centre d'Etude Spatiale de Rayonnements, CNRS/Universitè Paul-Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France Georg Fischer Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
A. Lecacheux
S. 13 - 36 doi:10.1553/PRE7s13 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abstract: The Saturnian Kilometric Radio emission (SKR), discovered and briefly observed by Voyager spacecraft in 1980-81, is now studied in depth by Cassini, which is still in orbit around Saturn, since mid 2004. Aboard Cassini, the main radio astronomy system (the HFR part of the RPWS instrument) is based on digital, real time, spectral correlation of several pass band filters, analyzing multiple wire antennas. This system allows, in principle, the full second order statistics of the analyzed signal to be retrieved, thus providing, compared to a simple antenna system, some extra information on the received radio waves: mainly about the spatial brightness distribution (leading to direction finding (DF) for a point source model) and the intrinsic polarisation of the measured radio source. While there is no doubt that SKR, like terrestrial and Jovian radio emissions, is powered via a cyclotron maser (CMI) originating from accelerated auroral particles, the exact scenario remains, at the moment, far from being understood: the complex modulation of the SKR at the planetary spin rate is perplexing; the fact that the apparent SKR polarization changes with observer’s latitude and contains a substantial amount of linear polarisation when observed from mid to high latitudes, is quite unexpected and likely the indication of a complex source structure and/or unusual propagation regime in Saturn’s high latitude regions. Published Online: 2011/12/28 12:43:45 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x002a1cf5 Rights: .
… The 7th International Workshop on "Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions" is the continuation of an established tradition: This PRE VII conference followed previous successful international workshops held at Graz, Austria, in 1984, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2005. This 7th workshop in September 2010 offered again the unique opportunity to discuss the observations from Cassini at Saturn and to investigate the measurements by other spacecraft and from the ground of the Jovian, terrestrial and solar radio emissions, also including studies on radiation from exoplanetary sources.
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
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