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http://dx.doi.org/10.5303/PKAS.2014.30.3.811

DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC OBSERVATION SYSTEM FOR KOREAN e-CALLISTO STATION  

PARK, JONGYEOB (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
CHOI, SEONGHWAN (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
BONG, SU-CHAN (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
KWON, YONGJUN (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
BAEK, JI-HYE (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
JANG, BI-HO (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
CHO, KYUNG-SUK (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
MOON, YONG-JAE (Kyung Hee University)
Monstein, Christian (ETH Zurich)
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Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society / v.30, no.3, 2015 , pp. 811-819 More about this Journal
Abstract
The e-CALLISTO is a network of CALLISTO (Compact Astronomical Low-frequency, Low-cost Instrument for Spectroscopy in Transportable Observatories) spectrometers which detect solar radio bursts 24 hours a day in frequency range 45-870 MHz. The number of channels per spectrum is 200 and the time resolution of whole spectrum is 0.25 second. The Korean e-CALLISTO station was developed by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) collaborating with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) since 2007. In this paper, we report replacement of the tracking mount and development of the control program using Visual C++/MFC. The program can make the tracking mount track the Sun and schedule CALLISTO to start and to finish its observation automatically using the Solar Position Algorithm (SPA). Daily tracking errors (RMSE) are 0.0028 degree in azimuthal axis and 0.0019 degree in elevational axis between 2014 January and 2015 July. We expect that the program can save time and labor to make the observations of solar activity for space weather monitoring, and improve CALLISTO data quality due to the stable and precise tracking methods.
Keywords
instrumentation: spectrographs; Sun: radio radiation; solar-terrestrial relations;
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