Future Prospects In China For The Observations Of Interplanetary Scintillations

The Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) of compact radio sources at meter to centimeter wavelengths is a useful ground-based method to investigate solar wind structure and parameters. The available facilities for IPS observation include single station with large telescope/array, or multiple stations with intermediate size of antennas. To combine advantages of the single station and multi-stations, we propose a new design for the IPS telescope with large collecting area at one main station and small antennas at other sub-stations. This new IPS telescope concept is a part of the Phase-II Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project under the 2016-2020 National Infrastructure Program in China to be constructed in near future.