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Imaging interplanetary CMEs at radio frequency from solar polar orbit
Authors:Ji Wu  Weiying Sun  Jianhua Zheng  Cheng Zhang  Hao Liu  Jingye Yan  Chi Wang  Chuanbing Wang  Shui Wang
Affiliation:1. Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;2. School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Abstract:Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent a great concentration of mass and energy input into the lower corona. They have come to be recognized as the major driver of physical conditions change in the Sun–Earth system. Consequently, observations of CMEs are important for understanding and ultimately predicting space weather conditions. This paper discusses a proposed mission, the Solar Polar Orbit Radio Telescope (SPORT) mission, which will observe the propagation of interplanetary CMEs to distances of near 0.35 AU from the Sun. The orbit of SPORT is an elliptical solar polar orbit. The inclination angle between the orbit and ecliptic plane should be about 90°. The main payload on board SPORT will be an imaging radiometer working at the meter wavelength band (radio telescope), which can follow the propagation of interplanetary CMEs. The images that are obtained by the radio telescope embody the brightness temperature of the objectives. Due to the very large size required for the antenna aperture of the radio telescope, we adopt interferometric imaging technology to reduce it. Interferometric imaging technology is based on indirect spatial frequency domain measurements plus Fourier transformation. The SPORT spacecraft will also be equipped with a set of optical and in situ measurement instruments such as a EUV solar telescope, a solar wind ion instrument, an energetic particle detector, a magnetometer, a wave detector and a solar radio burst spectrometer.
Keywords:Interplanetary CMEs   Interferometric imaging   Solar polar orbit   Radio telescope
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