ionFR: Ionospheric Faraday rotation
Abstract
ionFR calculates the amount of ionospheric Faraday rotation for a specific epoch, geographic location, and line-of-sight. The code uses a number of publicly available, GPS-derived total electron content maps and the most recent release of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field. ionFR can be used for the calibration of radio polarimetric observations; its accuracy had been demonstrated using LOFAR pulsar observations.
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013ascl.soft03022S
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- Software