EISCAT/EISCAT_3D
meteor and space object research at IRF
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
EISCAT/EISCAT_3D
meteor and space object research at IRF
Current work and future plans
Background credits: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Current work and future plans
Why?
- Enable/support collaborations
- Joint projects
- Software development
- Cross-validation
- Education
How?
- Updates (like this one)
- Research inventory (more on this at the end)
- Discussions, collaborations and keeping in touch
Background credits: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Research topics at IRF
- Meteors and meteoroids
- Near-Earth objects
- Resident space objects
Background credits: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
- New interferometric pipeline for MU/PANSY
- Meteoroid streams
- Rare meteoroids
Current research
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
- New interferometric pipeline for MU/PANSY
- Meteoroid streams
- Rare meteoroids
Current research
Kastinen & Kero, 2022
Radar analysis algorithm for determining meteor head echo parameter probability distributions
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
- New interferometric pipeline for MU/PANSY
- Meteoroid streams
- EISCAT/KAIRA/MAARSY/SIMONe/MU Geminids campaign
- UiT/IRF/NIPR/IAP/Nihon University collaboration
- Rare meteoroids
Current research
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
- New interferometric pipeline for MU/PANSY
- Meteoroid streams
- Rare meteoroids
Current research
Kastinen & Kero, 2022
High-altitude meteors detected by the interferometric MU radar
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
- New interferometric pipeline for MU/PANSY
- Meteoroid streams
- Rare meteoroids
Current research
Future work
- EISCAT_3D meteor database
- Interstellar meteoroids
- Rare meteoroids
- Meteoroid streams
- Fragmentation
- Multi-instrument campaigns
(camera+radar, multi-freq) - Fireball triggers & tracking
Meteors and meteoroids
Background credits: mLu.fotos - Germany
Future work
- EISCAT_3D meteor database
- Tri/mono-static measurements
- Temporal resolution of meteor event
- Unprecedented orbital accuracy
- Highly adaptable experiment design
- There will be tradeoffs! -> Multi-purpose experiments!
- Long time series and large databases
Near Earth Objects
Background credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
Near Earth Objects
Background credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
- New EISCAT pipeline for NEO observations
- EISCAT_3D NEO performance studies
Current research
Near Earth Objects
Background credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
- New EISCAT pipeline for NEO observations
- Observation planning software
- Refactoring of old signal analysis code
- EISCAT_3D NEO performance studies
Current research
Near Earth Objects
Background credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
- New EISCAT pipeline for NEO observations
- EISCAT_3D NEO performance studies
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Summary: EISCAT_3D can significantly contribute!
Kastinen, D., Tveito, T., Vierinen, J., Granvik, M., 2020
Radar observability of near-Earth objects using EISCAT 3D
Current research
Near Earth Objects
Background credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
- New EISCAT pipeline for NEO observations
- EISCAT_3D NEO performance studies
Current research
Future work
- EISCAT_3D NEO database
- Minimoons
- Routine tracking / triggers
- Radar tomography?
- EISCAT_3D NEO database
- Can we piggyback?
- Can others piggyback?
- Multi-purpose experiments!
- Trigger from Minor Planet Center?
Resident space objects
Resident space objects
- Space debris beamparks with EISCAT
- Fragmentation event response with EISCAT
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
- Dedicated system evaluation (e.g. TSDR/National radar)
Current research
- Fragmentation event response with EISCAT
Kastinen et. al, 2022
Using radar beam-parks to characterize the Kosmos-1408 fragmentation event
Resident space objects (RSO)
- Space debris beamparks with EISCAT
- Fragmentation event response with EISCAT
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
- Dedicated system evaluation (e.g. TSDR/National radar)
Current research
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
Resident space objects
- Space debris beamparks with EISCAT
- Fragmentation event response with EISCAT
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
- Dedicated system evaluation (e.g. TSDR/National radar)
Current research
Resident space objects
- Space debris beamparks with EISCAT
- Fragmentation event response with EISCAT
- EISCAT_3D performance simulation
- Dedicated system evaluation (e.g. TSDR/National radar)
Current research
Future work
- EISCAT_3D RSO database
- External triggers/requests
- Multi-purpose experiments!
- Debris population models
- Rapid fragmentation response
- Size/spin determination
