MEXART observations at 140 MHz: Calibration to perform the Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) technique
Abstract
The Mexican Array Radio Telescope (MEXART) is an array of 64 X 64 dipoles, covering 9600 square meters, located in Michoacan, Mexico at a latitude of 19° and 101° longitude. The telescope has 16 beams at different declinations to detect stellar radio sources at 140 MHz in a declination range of -40° to 80°. We report the sensitivity of the instrument, by using a list of radio sources characterized at 140 MHz. We also present an analysis of the scintillation index versus the elongation angle for some IPS radio sources.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AGUFMSH11B1635V
- Keywords:
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- 2194 INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS / Instruments and techniques;
- 2199 INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS / General or miscellaneous;
- 6954 RADIO SCIENCE / Radio astronomy