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Ionospheric hole made by the 2012 North Korean rocket observed with a dense GNSS array in Japan
Title: | Ionospheric hole made by the 2012 North Korean rocket observed with a dense GNSS array in Japan |
Authors: | Nakashima, Yuki Browse this author | Heki, Kosuke Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Keywords: | GPS | GNSS | GLONASS | ionosphere |
Issue Date: | Jul-2014 |
Publisher: | American Geophysical Union |
Journal Title: | Radio Science |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page: | 497 |
End Page: | 505 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1002/2014RS005413 |
Abstract: | A dense array of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers is useful to study ionospheric disturbances. Here we report observations by a Japanese GNSS array of an ionospheric hole, i.e., localized electron depletion, made by water vapor molecules in the exhaust plume of the second-stage engine of the Unha-3 rocket launched from North Korea, on 12 December 2012. The Russian GNSS was used for the first time to observe such an ionospheric hole. The hole emerged similar to 6 min after the launch above the middle of the Yellow Sea, and its size and depth suggest that the Unha-3 is slightly less powerful than the 2009 Taepodong-2 missile, also from North Korea. Smaller-scale electron depletion signatures appeared similar to 10 min after the launch above the southern East China Sea, which is possibly caused by the exhaust plume of the third-stage engine. |
Rights: | Copyright 2014 American Geophysical Union. |
Type: | article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57800 |
Appears in Collections: | 理学院・理学研究院 (Graduate School of Science / Faculty of Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 日置 幸介
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