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Joleen's Project
JOVE
Research Associate: Joleen
K. Miller
Principal Investigator: James Thieman, Code 633
 The
Radio Jove program is a network of radio telescopes built by amateurs using
the Radio Jove Kit. Each kit comes with parts to build the telescope, antennae,
and receiver as well as a program called Sky Pipe to record the data and network
to other telescopes. In addition to the kit built telescopes, the Radio Jove
network also includes the radio telescopes at the University of Florida and
the radio spectrogram at the University of Hawaii Windward Community College.
Observers using the Jove telescope can detect the two brightest radio sources
in the sky, the sun and Jupiter, and observers can chart and listen to the
radio outbursts of the sun, and the bursts related to the magnetic interaction
of Jupiter and its moon Io.
The spectrogram data is research quality data, and I will be studying this
data to model the structure Io bursts over multiple frequencies.
Because Sky Pipe has limited scientific capabilities, I am writing a program
that can read the sky pipe data files into the IDL environment.
IDL will allow both technical manipulation of the data and the ability to
compare the data to past observations. Because educational outreach is fundamental
to Radio Jove, I am speaking to various groups about Radio Jove, and helping
in the development of a Radio Jove museum kiosk that will be accessible to
the handicap.
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