학술논문

Towards Asteroid Tomography: Modellings and Measurements Using an Analogue Model
Document Type
Conference
Source
2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2020 14th European Conference on. :1-4 Mar, 2020
Subject
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Microwave measurement
Microwave antennas
Comets
Solid modeling
Wavelength measurement
Electromagnetic scattering
Asteroids
Large targets
Electromagnetic wave
Microwave analogy
Analogue model
3D inversion
Microwave imaging
Language
Abstract
The interior structures of the comets and asteroids, still poorly known, might hold a unique key to understand the early Solar System. Considering the interaction of an illuminated electromagnetic wave with this kind of targets, these ”objects” are very large compared to the applicable wavelength. Consequently, tomographic imaging of such targets, i.e., reconstructing their interior structure via multiple measurements, constitutes a challenging inverse problem. To reach this objective and to develop and test inverse algorithms, we need to investigate electromagnetic fields that have interacted with structures analogous to real asteroids and comets. In this study, we focus on the acquisition of these fields considering three methods: calculated fields obtained with (1) time and (2) frequency domain methods and (3) microwave measurements performed for an analogue model, i.e., a small-scale asteroid model.