{"title":"Radiothermal Emission model of Venus","authors":"Tinu Antony, C. SureshRaju, G. Swarup, N. Mohan","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738414","url":null,"abstract":"The radio-thermal emission from Venus as observed by ground-based interferometric radio-telescopes shows a significant spectral variation, with a gradual increase in brightness temperature from 1 mm to 6 cm and a decrease thereafter at higher wavelengths. The first time GMRT observations beyond 70 cm wavelength also reconfirm this decreasing trend in Tb with the increase in wavelength [7]. Efforts have been made to model this spectral variation in Tb, [1], [10], but these models fail to explain the low-frequency radio-thermal emission from Venus (decrease in Tb with the increase in wavelength) and the problem still remains unresolved. The authors attempt to explain this problem using radiative transfer based model and radiometric observations of Venus focussing particularly on the higher wavelength Tb observations from the Giant meter radio telescope (GMRT). The GMRT brightness temperature (Tb) (at 0.21, 0.5, 0.9, 1.23 and 2 m) is observed to decrease with frequency. A radiative transfer model was developed and it is seen that a two layer Venusian surface model matches with the observations. Based on the simulation studies, the authors put forth a hypothesis that Venus may have an absorbing layer within the first few meter depth.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123816478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Imachi, S. Yagitani, M. Ozaki, R. Higashi, Y. Yokoyama
{"title":"Rheometry experiment of an electric field sensor for plasma wave observation","authors":"T. Imachi, S. Yagitani, M. Ozaki, R. Higashi, Y. Yokoyama","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738523","url":null,"abstract":"Observation of plasma waves is an important subject of a spacecraft observation. The waveforms of electromagnetic field observed by sensors aboard a spacecraft are converted to electric voltage and is sent to the Earth as a set of digital data. Therefore, to know the exact intensity of the electromagnetic field, an accurate calibration of the sensor is required. However, it is difficult to acquire the characteristics of an electric sensor in a ground test. For observation of the electric field component of the wave, a dipole antenna using a pair of wires (a wire antenna) is often used, and since the sensitivity must be assured at frequency of several kHz or below for plasma wave observation, the total length of the wire is very large, ranging from tens of meters to 100 m. The size of wire and the difficulty of reproduction for the space plasma environment make the ground test hard.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123891373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time transfer via different GNSS systems","authors":"K. Liang","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738763","url":null,"abstract":"GNSS time transfer is the most popular method for time transfer with good accuracy and precision on ultra long distance over the world. In TAI generation, time transfer by GPS (Global Positioning System) and GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System), especially GPS, have been employed regularly for remote comparison links between PTB and other TAI laboratories. At present, BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) and Galileo system are developing fast. Time transfer via BDS and Galileo are becoming the important redundant comparison links and having the potential combination of multiple GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) links come true. A new multi-GNSS version of GNSS time transfer receiver NIM-TF-GNSS-3, has been under development by NIM (National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, China) since 2016. It is the third generation of GNSS time transfer receiver developed by NIM following NIM-TF-GNSS-1 [1] and NIM-TF-GNSS-2 [2]. The receiver provides the code and carrier phase measurements from BDS, GPS, GLONASS and Galileo for precise time transfer. The receiver can generate measurement data of both single frequency and dual frequencies in CGGTTS (CCTF Group on GNSS Time Transfer Standards) V2E, RINEX (Receiver Independent Exchange Format) V3 files. The experiments of time transfer via different GNSS systems on multiple links have been implemented for the evaluation on the long-term stability and accuracy. The combination method of multiple GNSS measurements for time transfer has been studied and discussed.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123969092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array with Beam Steering Capability","authors":"N. Mishra, Soma Das","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738470","url":null,"abstract":"In the proposed work, linear array of four Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna having beam steering capability has been designed and investigated. A specific progressive phase distribution between the array elements is controlled by introducing the appropriate delay lines in the feeding network. No need of any phase shifter and biasing network make the array design simple and less costly. The proposed design with impedance bandwidth of 500MHz at 7.75GHz frequency along with the gain of nearly 8.5dBi could be used in radar communication and other wideband wireless applications operating in X-band for moving targets.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123466801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capacity Analysis of Lattice reduction Aided Detection in Massive-MIMO systems","authors":"S. Sur, S. Bera, R. Bera, B. Maji","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738281","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing demand of future communication system, massive MIMO become a hot research topic. And Lattice reduction (LLR)-aided equalizers have been well researched for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems due to its bit-error-rate (BER) improvement over linear equalizers (LEs) and with relatively low complexity. This paper deal with the analysis of the channel capacity in massive MIMO system. Here, the performance of the LLR aided ZF and MMSE receives have been demonstrated along with the comparison between the linear receivers. The detail mathematical calculation for the improvement inn channel capacity due to LLR aided receiver over the linear receiver has been presented and verified through the simulated results.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114322303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges in design and development of Compressive Sensing based Single pixel optical Camera System for Spaceborne missions","authors":"J. Kumar, B. N. Sharma, K. A. Kumar, A. Sarkar","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738598","url":null,"abstract":"Evolution of CCD and CMOS sensors as prime imaging technology has enabled development of efficient and compact remote sensing systems for spaceborne missions. These imaging systems typically sample the ground scenes by means of a linear or area array of photon detectors. The quest for resolving higher spatial frequencies over large ground area with better radiometric accuracies results in huge data volume constraining the transmission bandwidth. This necessitated the development of complex on-board compression systems in digital domain with power and weight constraints. Recently, compressive sensing (CS) has emerged as potential signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing the signals. The main advantage of this technique is that it compresses the signal during sensing process, thereby reducing burden on on-board processing electronics systems. Based on the CS concept, conceptual framework for single pixel optical camera systems have been extensively studied as it has potential to significantly revolutionize commercial digital camera systems. However, there has not been any systematic studies towards using the CS based single pixel camera systems for spaceborne missions.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"33 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113967540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical modelling of the topside electron density distribution in the Indian equatorial and low latitude ionosphere using DU_LLTD Model","authors":"Rimpy Kakoty, P. K. Bhuyan","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738607","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial and temporal distribution of ionospheric electron density in the Indian equatorial and low latitudes during high solar activity conditions is theoretically simulated. The Dibrugarh University Low Latitude Temperature and Density (DU_LLTD) Model, which operates by simultaneously solving the time-dependent equations of continuity, momentum and energy balance equations along the ED (eccentric dipole) geomagnetic field lines (Bhuyan et al., 2001a,b) is used to generate the density profiles at different heights for solar maximum equinoctial condition. The effects of $mathrm{E} times mathrm{B}$ drift, horizontal wind, magnetic field, solar activity, photoionization rate, chemical reactions and solar EUV flux are considered as inputs for the calculation of electron/ion density. Heating due to photoelectrons, collision between ions, ions and electrons, rotational heat transfer, vibrational heat transfer and thermal conductivity are considered for the calculation of electron and ion temperatures (Bhuyan et al., 2008).","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"314 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124463424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compact Conformal Multilayer Slot Antenna for Hyperthermia","authors":"Soni Singh, S. Singh, Dharmendra Singh","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738242","url":null,"abstract":"A compact, conformal applicator having good impedance matching over various loaded conditions with minimum leakage radiation is desirable for hyperthermia treatment of cancer. Hence, in this paper, a new compact conformal multilayer slot antenna with embedded water bolus terminated in muscle medium is presented for hyperthermia application. A simple $50 Omega$ microstrip line with fork-shaped tuning stub is used to excite the proposed conformal antenna. The antenna input reflection coefficient and hyperthermia assurance parameters viz. effective field size, depth at $Deltamathrm{T} /2$ and heating area in the tissue medium are evaluated for different antenna curvature at 2.45 GHz (curvature of the applicator is identical to the bio-model). The simulation results for the proposed antenna show a reduced tissue surface heating and back field irradiation.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124052866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Yadav, C. Vineeth, K. Kumar, R. Choudhary, T. Pant, S. Sunda
{"title":"Role of the phase of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in modulating the influence of SSW on Equatorial Ionosphere","authors":"S. Yadav, C. Vineeth, K. Kumar, R. Choudhary, T. Pant, S. Sunda","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738274","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the coupling of ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system from the lower atmospheric forcing is one of the primary challenges for the space weather community. The present paper deals with the role of two lower atmospheric processes over the Indian region ionosphere i.e., stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW). The role of QBO in modulating the response of equatorial/low latitude ionosphere over Indian sector to the major SSW events of 2009 and 2013 has been investigated by using combined measurements from meteor wind radar operating over Trivandrum, Global Positioning System (GPS) derived total electron content (TEC), and magnetic field data. The time variation of Equatorial Electrojet (EEJ)-induced surface magnetic field show that the response of EEJ is distinctly different during different phases of the QBO. The peaking time of EEJ and occurrence time of counter electrojet (CEJ) were found to be shifted towards morning/evening sector during the westward/eastward phase of the QBO during the SSW years. The TEC over both the equatorial and low-latitude ionosphere exhibit a similar feature. The tidal components derived from horizontal winds using a meteor wind radar revealed similar shift in their peaking time. These observations clearly vindicate that the phase of QBO plays a crucial role in structuring the equatorial electrodynamics and electron density distribution over low-latitudes during the SSW evens. These results are unique and achieves significance as we are heading towards solar minimum period where forcing from the lower atmosphere is an import aspect of ionospheric variability.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126435017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the nighttime enhancement in ionospheric electron density over the equatorial region","authors":"S. Yadav, R. Choudhary, P. R. Shreedevi, S. Sunda","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738394","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the evolution of nighttime ionospheric electron density remains an elusive aspect in spite of the extensive research over the past several decades. At nighttime, during the absence of ionization, the ionospheric electron density is generally expected to decay gradually, but it does not behave as predicted by the simple notion and show enhancement occasionally. This phenomenon is called ionospheric nighttime enhancement (INE), and it depends strongly on location, season, and level of solar and geomagnetic activity. This paper focuses on the INE events over the equatorial region of the Indian sector. The Global Positioning System (GPS) derived total electron content (TEC) measurements obtained from two InSWIM (Indian network for Space Weather Impact monitoring) stations have been used. The collocated ionosonde has been used to obtain the information on the bottomside ionospheric parameters. The ionosonde measurements show that the plasma drift is downward under such events which reveals the essential role of the westward electric field in forming the INE. The 2D-TEC maps generated from the Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS)-GAGAN have also been utilized to investigate the motions of equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) crest during the occurrence of INE events. Results show the existence of well-developed EIA until late evening during the events of INE.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128040974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}