Central supercomputer. Fibre data ... Test station around Växjö, southern Sweden ... Courtesy and © M. J. Padgett, J. Leach et al., U. Glasgow, UK; Royal Society ...
LOFAR Outrigger in Scandinavia
Physics in Space Programme
The LOIS space radio research facility Description and first results B. Thidé Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden and LOIS Space Centre, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden
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New HF-VHF digital radio systems for space physics LOFAR Low Frequency Array (10–240 MHz) Test station at Exloo operational 2004, full scale deployment in progress. Final antenna 10–100 times more sensitive than any existing comparable facility
LOIS LOFAR In Scandinavia Test station near Växjö operational 2004, fast fibre network, supercomputer 2005 Transmitter in Hörby (Teracom) Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOFAR Phase 1
Central supercomputer
- Radio telescope - Seismic imager - Precision weather for agriculture, wind energy
Fibre data transport Sensor field
Integrate LOFAR network into regional fibre network, sharing costs with schools, health centres etc.
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOFAR Phase 2 into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ultimate LOFAR to Växjö SE Cambridge UK Potsdam DE Nançay FR etc
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOIS – The LOFAR Outrigger in Scandinavia Test station around Växjö, southern Sweden A total of 32 LOIS stations are planned
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Three orthogonal linear dipole antennas probe the 3D electric field vectors
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Three orthogonal loop antennas probe the 3D magnetic field pseudovectors
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOIS Test Station control room (Risinge)
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOIS resources Supercomputer cluster (SUR grant from IBM) and Part of the LOIS Test Station outside Växjö, SE.
Lars Daldorff, Axel Guthmann and the IBM system Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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B.T. and Willem Baan (LOFAR) at the LOIS Test Station. XVIII URSI GA, New Delhi, 23-29 October, 2005
LOIS transmission tests Test transmissions (ionospheric interactions, space radar) will be made with Radio Sweden’s 500kW HF transmitters and logperiodic antennas at Hörby, 200 km south of the LOIS test station. Will try to include other highpower HF transmitters in Europe.
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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From Paul Rodriguez
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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From Paul Rodriguez
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Solar Phys., in press
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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EM beam with spin (circular polarisation) No orbital angular momentum (OAM)
Courtesy and © M. J. Padgett, J. Leach et al., U. Glasgow, UK; Royal Society Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Field vectors across an antenna array for a radio beam with spin (circular polarisation)
Phase 0 deg
Phase 45 deg B. T. et al., preprint, 2005
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Helical radio beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM)
B. Thidé et al., preprint, 2005 Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Field vectors across an antenna array for a radio beam with orbital angular momentum
Phase 45 deg
Phase 0 deg B. Thidé et al., preprint, 2005 Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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EM beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) l=+1
l=+3
l= -4
Courtesy and © M. J. Padgett, J. Leach et al., U. Glasgow, UK; Royal Society Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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LOIS 3D vector radio measurement videos (Click for animation)
Power spectral density
Polarisation rollogram
Intensity and Fröbenius norm Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
Dynamic variation of polarisation ellipse 21
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LOIS 3D vector radio measurements (cont’d)
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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Cosmic ray radio flash candidates at LOIS (Dec 2004)
Latest news: 27 Dec, 2004, magnetar gamma signatures tentatively observed.
Bo Thidé (paper given by Tobia Carozzi)
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OAM as an efficient turbulence diagnostic
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