GH03: Radio sounding in magnetospheres and ionospheres (2)

Wednesday, August 20  09:40-10:40,  Room #14

Session Chairs: Gordon James, Vikas Sonwalkar

This session will present the latest technical and scientific results and concepts of space-borne radio sounding in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial ionospheres and magnetospheres including previous, current, and planned space-borne sounders. The basic physics of plasma-wave propagation and of active or passive antennas, in magnetoplasmas in laboratory or space, are important related topics. Investigations of geospace plasma density structures using injected whistler-mode waves are also solicited, as are reviews of earlier radio-sounding accomplishments highlighting outstanding questions yet to be addressed by radio sounders.

9:40  GH03.1   RESULTS OF THE PLASMA WAVE SOUNDER EXPERIMENTS ON BOARD THE AKEBONO SATELLITE IN THE TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE AND PLASMASPHERE

H. Oya1, Y. Katoh1, K. Kobayashi2

1Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2Department of Information Systems Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Imizu, Toyama, Japan


10:20  GH03.2   RAYTRACING OF SPHERICAL WAVES IN MAGNETOPLASMA

X. Huang1,2, B. W. Reinisch1,2

1Lowell Digisonde International, Lowell, MA, United States
2CAR, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States