Solar radioastronomy with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 111-120

  White, Stephen M ^a   Kassim, Namir E ^b   Erickson, William C ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent emission processes; Low frequency radio astronomy; Solar activity; Solar radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCIES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIO TELESCOPES; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ACTIVE DIPOLE TECHNIQUE; COHERENT EMISSION PROCESS; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; LOW FREQUENCY ARRAY; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; SOLAR RADIOASTRONOMY;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037767322     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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