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RADIO SCIENCE
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2008RS004039
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- ONR [N00014-04-1-0105]
- NSF [AST-0352915, AST-0607544]
- NASA [NNG06GJ40G]
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On 6 December 2006, a solar radio burst associated with a class X6 solar flare demonstrated that GPS receiver operation is vulnerable to solar radio burst noise at 1.2 GHz and 1.6 GHz. Within 8 days, two more solar radio bursts confirmed the initial results. These solar radio bursts occurred at solar minimum when they were least expected. Given that measurements of solar radio bursts extend back to at least 1960, why did 40 years pass before anyone realized that solar radio bursts could be so intense or pose a potential threat to the continuous availability of GPS operations? An investigation has been conducted to see if archived solar radio burst data or GPS data could be used to detect intense solar radio bursts. With the exception of the intense solar radio bursts of December 2006, we find that when both GPS data and Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) data are available, they agree within the limits presented by differing reception frequencies and unknown polarization. However, inconsistencies and lapses within the RSTN data set were also discovered, making it unlikely that we will ever know the true number of intense (>150,000 solar flux unit) solar radio bursts that may have occurred during the last 40 years.
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