Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs)
Auroral Data from Canadian Stations
Solar-Terrestrial Enviroment Laboratory, Nagoya University
This homepage is to view optical and magnetic field data from two Canadian stations (Athabasca and Resolute Bay), operated by the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University.
Please note that the data are just for browsing purpose and are not fully calibrated. For digital data request, please contact K. Shiokawa .
Here are some notes.
The observations are carried out in collaboration with the following institutions.
Resolute Bay (RSB): SRI International, USA,
University of Calgary, Canada
University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Athabasca (ATH): Athabasca University and University of Calgary, Canada
Plots of Auroral Images at Resolute Bay (provided by K. Hosokawa)
Auroral Campaign Data (Fort Smith and Gillam)
List of Sky Condition (1-hour value)
For more information and auxiliary data of the Athabasca observatory,
contact Martin Connors, Athabasca University
Link to the THEMIS Homepage
Link to GAIA Homepage (Global Auroral Imaging Access)
This observation at two OMTI stations in Canada is mainly carried out by the
Division II members (K. Shiokawa, Y. Otsuka, and T. Ogawa) of the
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STELAB), Nagoya University.
We thank Y. Katoh, M. Satoh, and T. Katoh of the Solar-Terrestrial
Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, for their helpful support
of the development and operation of the instruments.
K. Hosokawa of the University of Electro-Communications
provides various data plots of the all-sky imager at Resolute Bay.
A. Ieda of STELAB produces the keograms of the imager at Athabasca.
The observation at Resolute Bay is carried out in collaboration
with the SRI International, USA., the University of Calgary, Canada, and
the University of Electro-Communications, Japan.
The observation at Athabasca is carried out in collaboration with
the Athabasca University and the University of Calgary.
This work is supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
(16403007) and by the 21th Century COE Program (Dynamics of
the Sun-Earth-Life Interactive System, No. G-4) of the Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
This work is also supported by the Project 2 (Initiatives in
geospace research using coordinated ground-satellite experiments)
of the Geospace Research Center, Solar-Terrestrial Environment
Laboratory, Nagoya University.
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glat glon mlat mlon inclination declination
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RSB 74.73 265.07 82.9 302.7 88.15 -32.45
ATH 54.7 246.7 61.7 306.2 76.57 17.35
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* calculation: dipole geomagnetic coordinates
Resolute Bay (RSB) : (74.7N, 265.1E)
All-Sky Imager #6 (Jan.9, 2005-) (2x2 binning = 256x256pixels)
OI (557.7nm, 30s), OI (630.0nm, 30s),
OH-bands(2s), Na (589.3nm, 30s) : every 2min
OI (777.4nm, 45s) : every 20 min
Athabasca (ATH) : (54.7N, 246.7E)
All-Sky Imager #7 (Sept.3, 2005-) (2x2 binning = 256x256pixels)
OI (557.7nm, 5s), OI (630.0nm, 30s), Hbeta (486.1nm, 40s),
Na (589.3nm, 15s) : every 2min
OH-bands (1s), OI (844.6nm, 25s) : every 10 min
Tilting Photometer 3 (Sept.3, 2005-)
Hbeta (486.1-484.8nm: 2-min), N2+(1NG) (427.8nm: 2-min)
Meridian-scanning, five points in the sky (+-74.88, +-37.44, 0deg)
Induction magnetometer (H, D, Z, 64Hz-sampling, turnover freq: ~7Hz)
For more information of the NORSTAR optical and riometer data over Canada,
please visit NORSTAR site, University of Calgary
Acknowledgements
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