Solar System Radio Astronomy at The College of New Jersey

Our group at The College of New Jersey built a double dipole radio telescope as a contribution to NASA's Radio JOVE Program. We present observations of flares from Jupiter and the Sun and we give a brief description of the dominant physical mechanisms producing the radio waves from these two dominant sources of solar system radio emission. More recently we have built a basic radio interferometer with an 80 m baseline using two of these Radio JOVE double-dipoles. We describe the principles of interferometry as applicable to this telescope and present preliminary measurements made with this simple interferometer.