In-flight calibration of the Cassini-Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) antenna system for direction-finding and polarization measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A9, 2004, Pages

  Vogl, Dieter F ^a   Cecconi, Baptiste ^b,d   Macher, Wolfgang ^a   Zarka, Philippe ^b,d   Ladreiter, Hans Peter ^a   Fédou, Pierre ^b,d   Lecacheux, Alain ^b,d   Averkamp, Terry ^c   Fischer, Georg ^a   Rucker, Helmut O ^a   Gurnett, Donald A ^c   Kurth, William S ^c   Hospodarsky, George B ^c  

^a Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna calibration; Cassini RPWS; Direction finding; Effective length vectors; Wave polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749114319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010261     Document Type: Article

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