期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 624, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833160
关键词
planets and satellites: atmospheres; occultations; telescopes; methods: observational; methods: data analysis; space vehicles: instruments
资金
- EVN project [v0427, v0429, v0430, v0501, v0323]
- National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), an Australian Commonwealth Government Programme
- NWO-ShAO agreement on collaboration in VLBI [614.011.501]
- EC FP7 project ESPaCE [263466]
- program of the Light in China's Western Region [YBXM-2014-02]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11503072, 11573057, 11703070]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Context. Radio occultation is a technique used to study planetary atmospheres by means of the refraction and absorption of a spacecraft carrier signal through the atmosphere of the celestial body of interest, as detected from a ground station on Earth. This technique is usually employed by the deep space tracking and communication facilities (e.g., NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), ESA's Estrack). Aims. We want to characterize the capabilities of the Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) technique for radio occultation experiments, using radio telescopes equipped with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) instrumentation. Methods. We conducted a test with ESA's Venus Express (VEX), to evaluate the performance of the PRIDE technique for this particular application. We explain in detail the data processing pipeline of radio occultation experiments with PRIDE, based on the collection of so-called open-loop Doppler data with VLBI stations, and perform an error propagation analysis of the technique. Results. With the VEX test case and the corresponding error analysis, we have demonstrated that the PRIDE setup and processing pipeline is suited for radio occultation experiments of planetary bodies. The noise budget of the open-loop Doppler data collected with PRIDE indicated that the uncertainties in the derived density and temperature profiles remain within the range of uncertainties reported in previous Venus' studies. Open-loop Doppler data can probe deeper layers of thick atmospheres, such as that of Venus, when compared to closed-loop Doppler data. Furthermore, PRIDE through the VLBI networks around the world, provides a wide coverage and range of large antenna dishes, that can be used for this type of experiments.
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