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68. Polarization of solar radio bursts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

T. Hatanaka*
Affiliation:
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

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The polarization observation of solar radio emission at 200 Mc./s. was started in December 1954 at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory with a new type of radio polarimeter[1, 2]. With a pair of crossed dipoles at the focus of a 10 metre paraboloid of equatorial mounting, it gives almost simultaneously six components of polarization, two circular and four linear, on a time-sharing basis by using electronic switching. Fig. 1 shows the block diagram of the circuit and the combination of modulators and demodulators. 6AS6 pentodes are used as the time modulators. The duration of each gate pulse is 1/1600 sec. and one set of observations is obtained in 1/200 sec. One of the principal features of the present scheme is to use a common receiving system for all the components in order to avoid inevitable errors due to differences or changes in the gain and in the central frequencies of different receivers. A new type of square-law detector is employed in the present system [3]. It has rapid response time and excellent stability.

Type
Part V: The Active Sun
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957 

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