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Spectrographs

Examples of spectrograph events

The Culgoora Solar Radio Spectrograph observes the radio emmission of the Sun from 18MHz to 1.8GHz. This is required as solar flares can radiate energy over a very broad frequency range. Solar flare radio activity appear as "sweeps" on a solar radio spectrograph display. In particular, there are two types of "sweeps" known as "Type II" and "Type IV", which can indicate that a solar coronal mass ejection has occurred. SWS combines the solar radio "sweep" signature of the event and the solar location and size of the H-Alpha flare activity (obtained from Culgoora Observatory H-Alpha patrol), to determine the geo-effectiveness of the event.

See the document A Brief Introduction of Radiospectrogram Analysis for more information of spectrogram events.

Available Spectrographs:
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