Satellite arcing experiment

29sep15

Satellite arcing experiments:

Miscellaneous measurements:

The processing code is in /share/megs/phil/usr/satarc/


intro

   The satellite arcing experiment (s3043,s3099,..)  is looking for arcs from satellite solar panels using AO and the 327,430  and 47 MHz receivers.
Prior to hurricane maria, the gregorian dome (gr) would look at the satellite (sometimes doing on,off position switching) piping the data to the mock spectromenter, while the ch receiver (430 or 47) would look at blank sky, sending it's data to the radar interface. The ch beam was used to filter out spikes not coming from the satellite.

    After hurricane maris (the ch line feed fell into the dish), only the gr receiver was used to monitor the satellite (doing  on,off position switching).


150921: fast dump spectra using the 327 receiver.

     On 21sep15 i took some fast dump data using the 327 receiver. The setup was:

Processing the data:


the plots show the total power vs time

Summary

processing: x101/150921/327arc.pro


03mar17 looking at objects in 327 sidelobes

    Most geostationary satellites are below our minimum dec range (0deg).
One idea to look farther south, is to put the object in a sidelobe of a the receiver.

    The plots shows the sidelobe gain loss (relative to main beam) vs angular separation from main beam (.ps) (.pdf)
processing: x101/170303/satArc_sdlb.pro



   
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