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2017
The Far Ultra-Violet Imager on the Icon Mission ICON Far UltraViolet (FUV) imager contributes to the ICON science objectives by providing remote sensing measurements of the daytime and nighttime atmosphere/ionosphere. During sunlit atmospheric conditions, ICON FUV images the limb altitude profile in the shortwave (SW) band at 135.6 nm and the longwave (LW) band at 157 nm perpendicular to the satellite motion to retrieve the atmospheric O/N₂ ratio. In conditions of atmospheric darkness, ICON FUV measures the 135.6 nm recombination emission of O+ ions used to compute the nighttime ionospheric altitude distribution. ICON Far UltraViolet (FUV) imager is a Czerny\textendashTurner design Spectrographic Imager with two exit slits and corresponding back imager cameras that produce two independent images in separate wavelength bands on two detectors. All observations will be processed as limb altitude profiles. In addition, the ionospheric 135.6 nm data will be processed as longitude and latitude spatial maps to obtain images of ion distributions around regions of equatorial spread F. The ICON FUV optic axis is pointed 20 degrees below local horizontal and has a steering mirror that allows the field of view to be steered up to 30 degrees forward and aft, to keep the local magnetic meridian in the field of view. The detectors are micro channel plate (MCP) intensified FUV tubes with the phosphor fiber-optically coupled to Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs). The dual stack MCP-s amplify the photoelectron signals to overcome the CCD noise and the rapidly scanned frames are co-added to digitally create 12-second integrated images. Digital on-board signal processing is used to compensate for geometric distortion and satellite motion and to achieve data compression. The instrument was originally aligned in visible light by using a special grating and visible cameras. Final alignment, functional and environmental testing and calibration were performed in a large vacuum chamber with a UV source. The test and calibration program showed that ICON FUV meets its design requirements and is ready to be launched on the ICON spacecraft. Mende, S.; Frey, H.; Rider, K.; Chou, C.; Harris, S.; Siegmund, O.; England, S.; Wilkins, C.; Craig, W.; Immel, T.; Turin, P.; Darling, N.; Loicq, J.; Blain, P.; Syrstad, E.; Thompson, B.; Burt, R.; Champagne, J.; Sevilla, P.; Ellis, S.; Published by: Space Science Reviews Published on: 10/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-017-0386-0
2013
Signatures of equatorial plasma bubbles in VHF satellite scintillations and equatorial ionograms Since their discovery in the 1970s, equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) have been invoked to explain the propagation of VHF signals on trans-equatorial circuits at night, and blamed for highly detrimental scintillation of VHF and GHz trans-ionospheric communications signals in equatorial regions. Over the last four decades, the properties of EPBs have been deduced by multiple techniques such as incoherent scatter radar, 630 nm airglow, depletions in GPS total electron content observations, VHF and GHz scintillations, and HF observations by ionosondes. The initiation and evolution of EPBs have by now been successfully modeled and a good understanding developed of the underlying physics. However, different communities tend to concentrate on a single observing technique, without regard to whether the different techniques provide a consistent physical picture. In contrast, this paper discusses two very different types of observations made on a night-by-night basis during the COPEX campaign of late 2002 in Brazil, namely, VHF scintillations and ionograms, and shows that the two methods of observation can provide a consistent interpretation of the properties of EPBs. For example, an EPB seen as an eastward drifting scintillation event can also be seen as an extra ionogram reflection trace that moves closer to and then away from the ionosonde site. The scintillations are attributed to strong gradients across the walls of an EPB, whereas the extra ionogram traces are attributed to oblique reflection of the ionosonde signals from the walls of the EPB. McNamara, L.; Caton, R.; Parris, R.; Pedersen, T.; Thompson, D.; Wiens, K.; Groves, K.; Published by: Radio Science Published on: 03/2013 YEAR: 2013 DOI: 10.1002/rds.v48.210.1002/rds.20025 Equatorial ionosphere; equatorial plasma bubbles
2008
Longitudinal variability of low-latitude total electron content: Tidal influences Scherliess, L.; Thompson, D.; Schunk, R.; Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research Published on: Jan-01-2008 YEAR: 2008 DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012480
2006
Extreme longitudinal variability of plasma structuring in the equatorial ionosphere on a magnetically quiet equinoctial day McDonald, Sarah; Basu, Sunanda; Basu, Santimay; Groves, Keith; Valladares, Cesar; Scherliess, Ludger; Thompson, Donald; Schunk, Robert; Sojka, Jan; Zhu, Lie; Published by: Radio Science Published on: Jan-12-2006 YEAR: 2006 DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003366
2004
Multi-instrument Observations of the Development of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly and Links to Scintillation McDonald, SE; Basu, S; Groves, K; Scherliess, L; Thompson, DC; Schunk, RW; Sojka, JJ; Zhu, L; Published by: Published on: YEAR: 2004 DOI:

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