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The IMAGE Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUV) provides our first global images of the plasmasphere by imaging the distribution of He+ in its 30.4-nm resonance line. The images reveal the details of a highly structured and dynamic entity. Comparing EUV images and selected in-situ observations has helped to validate the remote sensing measurements. The brightness in the EUV images is heavily weighted by the He+ density near the plane of the magnetic equator, but two lines of evidence emphasize that the features seen by EUV extend far from the equator, and in at least some cases reach the ionosphere. Certain features and behaviors, including shoulders, channels, notches, and plasma erosion events, appear frequently in the EUV images. These are keys to understanding the ways that electric fields in the inner magnetosphere affect the large and meso-scale distribution of plasma, and their study can elucidate the mechanisms by which the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field couple to the inner magnetosphere. 相似文献
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The exploration of our nearest planets will require relaying large amounts of data to Earth for study and evaluation. However, our ability to communicate at interplanetary distances is limited. In this paper, an evaluation is made of our capability to communicate from the vicinity of Mars using the present S-band deep-space network, prospects for enhancing that performance, and limitations beyond which no additional improvement seems feasible. In addition, requirements for real-time television are evaluated and prospects for improving the communication rates by operating at higher microwave frequencies considered. 相似文献
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The Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) NASA Mission-of-Opportunity 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
D. J. McComas F. Allegrini J. Baldonado B. Blake P. C. Brandt J. Burch J. Clemmons W. Crain D. Delapp R. DeMajistre D. Everett H. Fahr L. Friesen H. Funsten J. Goldstein M. Gruntman R. Harbaugh R. Harper H. Henkel C. Holmlund G. Lay D. Mabry D. Mitchell U. Nass C. Pollock S. Pope M. Reno S. Ritzau E. Roelof E. Scime M. Sivjee R. Skoug T. S. Sotirelis M. Thomsen C. Urdiales P. Valek K. Viherkanto S. Weidner T. Ylikorpi M. Young J. Zoennchen 《Space Science Reviews》2009,142(1-4):157-231
Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) is a NASA Explorer Mission-of-Opportunity to stereoscopically image the Earth’s magnetosphere for the first time. TWINS extends our understanding of magnetospheric structure and processes by providing simultaneous Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imaging from two widely separated locations. TWINS observes ENAs from 1–100 keV with high angular (~4°×4°) and time (~1-minute) resolution. The TWINS Ly-α monitor measures the geocoronal hydrogen density to aid in ENA analysis while environmental sensors provide contemporaneous measurements of the local charged particle environments. By imaging ENAs with identical instruments from two widely spaced, high-altitude, high-inclination spacecraft, TWINS enables three-dimensional visualization of the large-scale structures and dynamics within the magnetosphere for the first time. This “instrument paper” documents the TWINS design, construction, calibration, and initial results. Finally, the appendix of this paper describes and documents the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) instrument calibration facility; this facility was used for all TWINS instrument-level calibrations. 相似文献
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By the time of the 34th ESLAB symposium, dedicated to the memory of John Simpson, Ulysses had nearly reached its peak southerly latitude in its second polar orbit. The global solar wind structure observed thus far
in Ulysses' second orbit is remarkably different from that observed over its first orbit. In particular, Ulysses observed highly irregular solar wind with less periodic stream interaction regions, much more frequent coronal mass ejections,
and only a single, short interval of fast solar wind. Ulysses also observed the slowest solar wind seen thus far in its ten-year
journey (∼270 km s−1). The complicated solar wind structure undoubtedly arises from the more complex coronal structure found around solar activity
maximum, when the large polar coronal holes have disappeared and coronal streamers, small-scale coronal holes, and frequent
CMEs are found at all heliolatitudes.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Martin M. Sirk Eric J. Korpela Yuzo Ishikawa Jerry Edelstein Edward H. Wishnow Christopher Smith Jeremy McCauley Jason B. McPhate James Curtis Travis Curtis Steven R. Gibson Sharon Jelinsky Jeffrey A. Lynn Mario Marckwordt Nathan Miller Michael Raffanti William Van Shourt Andrew W. Stephan Thomas J. Immel 《Space Science Reviews》2017,212(1-2):631-643
We present the design, implementation, and on-ground performance measurements of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer EUV spectrometer, ICON EUV, a wide field (\(17^{\circ}\times 12^{\circ}\)) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging spectrograph designed to observe the lower ionosphere at tangent altitudes between 100 and 500 km. The primary targets of the spectrometer, which has a spectral range of 54–88 nm, are the Oii emission lines at 61.6 nm and 83.4 nm. Its design, using a single optical element, permits a imaging resolution perpendicular to the spectral dispersion direction with a large (\(12^{\circ} \)) acceptance parallel to the dispersion direction while providing a slit-width dominated spectral resolution of \(R\sim25\) at 58.4 nm. Pre-flight calibration shows that the instrument has met all of the science performance requirements. 相似文献
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Goldstein J.S. Reed I.S. 《IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems》1997,33(4):1309-1325
This work extends the recently introduced cross-spectral metric for subspace selection and dimensionality reduction to partially adaptive space-time sensor array processing. A general methodology is developed for the analysis of reduced-dimension detection tests with known and unknown covariance. It is demonstrated that the cross-spectral metric results in a low-dimensional detector which provides nearly optimal performance when the noise covariance is known. It is also shown that this metric allows the dimensionality of the detector to be reduced below the dimension of the noise subspace eigenstructure without significant loss. This attribute provides robustness in the subspace selection process to achieve reduced-dimensional target detection. Finally, it is demonstrated that the cross-spectral subspace reduced-dimension detector can outperform the full-dimension detector when the noise covariance is unknown, closely approximating the performance of the matched filter. 相似文献