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    Limits on radio emission from meteors using the MWA

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    Authors
    Zhang, X.
    Hancock, P.
    Devillepoix, H.
    Wayth, R.
    Beardsley, A.
    Crosse, B.
    Emrich, David
    Franzen, T.
    Gaensler, B.
    Horsley, L.
    Johnston-Hollitt, M.
    Kaplan, D.
    Kenney, D.
    Morales, M.
    Pallot, D.
    Steele, K.
    Tingay, S.
    Trott, C.
    Walker, M.
    Williams, A.
    Wu, C.
    Ji, J.
    Ma, Y.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Zhang, X. and Hancock, P. and Devillepoix, H. and Wayth, R. and Beardsley, A. and Crosse, B. and Emrich, D. et al. 2018. Limits on radio emission from meteors using the MWA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477 (4): pp. 5167-5176.
    Source Title
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    DOI
    10.1093/mnras/sty930
    ISSN
    0035-8711
    School
    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Engineering)
    Remarks

    This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70155
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Recently, low-frequency, broad-band radio emission has been observed accompanying bright meteors by the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The broad-band spectra between 20 and 60 MHz were captured for several events, while the spectral index (dependence of flux density on frequency, with Sν ∝ να) was estimated to be −4 ± 1 during the peak of meteor afterglows. Here we present a survey of meteor emission and other transient events using the Murchison Wide Field Array (MWA) at 72–103 MHz. In our 322 h survey, down to a 5σ detection threshold of 3.5 Jy beam−1, no transient candidates were identified as intrinsic emission from meteors. We derived an upper limit of −3.7 (95  per cent confidence limit) on the spectral index in our frequency range. We also report detections of other transient events, such as reflected FM broadcast signals from small satellites, conclusively demonstrating the ability of the MWA to detect and track space debris on scales as small as 0.1 m in low Earth orbits.

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