Monitoring of interplanetary and ionosphere scintillations at frequency 110 MHz

Abstract

Large Phased Array of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute is the most sensitive in the world at the metre waveband. It allows simultaneous observation of two independent diagrams each consisting of 16 beams. We are planning to introduce a program of monitoring interplanetary and ionospheric scintillation using observations of radio sources by one multi-beam diagram. The methods of observations and data reduction are discussed. We present the first results of seven day test observations for a strip of the sky in a region with declinations between 28^° and 32^° by using an eight-beam diagram.

Keywords:

• Solar wind
• Interplanetary scintillation
• Ionospheric scintillation

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful for support of the work by the program “Solar Activity and Physical Processes in the Sun-Earth System” of the Russian Academy of Science.