Imaging the Sun at 21 cm: Budgetting the S-component |
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Authors: | I. E. Burke K. F. Tapping |
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Affiliation: | (1) MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, 13800 Commerce Parkway, V6V 2J3 Richmond, British Columbia, Canada;(2) Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, National Research Council, P.O. Box 248, V2A 6K3 Penticton, British Columbia, Canada |
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Abstract: | On fourteen days in July and August 1992 and June 1993, we used the 7-element synthesis radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory to make full-disc, arc-min resolution images of the Sun at 21 cm, with the objective of budgetting the contributions to the slowly-varying component of solar radio emission. This instrument has the advantage that the mapping field at this wavelength is about 2.5° wide. However, it has also the severe disadvantage that with only 12 hours to record each image, the brightness distribution is severely undersampled. This difficulty, along with solar rotation and declination motion during each observation, required development of special image correction procedures.The two observing sessions spanned about 25% of the activity range over a solar cycle. Over this range, comparable contributions to the slowly-varying component came from active region sources and a weak emission, widely-distributed over the solar disk. Both these contributions are correlated with the total photospheric magnetic flux and with the 10.7 cm flux. |
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