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Type-III Solar Radio Bursts at Mars: a 16.5-year catalogue from Mars Express-MARSIS at 0.1-5.5 MHz

Tuesday 26 May 2026, by Baptiste Cecconi

This dataset provides a catalogue of Solar Type III radio bursts observed by the MARSIS instrument onboard Mars Express. A detailed description of the catalogue and methodology is given in Sánchez-Cano et al. (submitted to Space Weather).

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.25935/73xj-za95
  • Publisher: PADC
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Citation: Sánchez-Cano, B., Carter, S., Lester, M., Witasse, O., Jackman, C. M., Musset, S., Cecconi, B., Siebenaler, L., Joyce, S., Cañizares, L. A., Cicchetti, A., Fogg, A. R., Gallagher, P., Gerekos, C., Harada, Y., Ippolito, A., Jebaraj, I., Meggi, D., Orosei, R., Opgenoorth, H., Plaut, J., Regan, C. & Stergiopoulou, K. (2026). Type-III Solar Radio Bursts at Mars: a 16.5-year catalogue from Mars Express-MARSIS at 0.1-5.5 MHz (Version 1.0) [Dataset]. PADC/MASER. https://doi.org/10.25935/73xj-za95

Link to data repository

Description

The dataset contains the catalogue of Solar Type III radio bursts identified in the Mars Express / MARSIS data in AIS mode (Active Ionospheric Sounder), covering the period from 2005 to 2021.

Coverage

  • Time range: 2005 to 2021
  • Spectral range: 0.1 to 5.5 MHz

Acknowledgements
B.S.-C. acknowledges support through STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship ST/V004115/1. B.S.-C, M.L. and D.M acknowledges support through UKRI1210. The ESA Science Faculty - Funding reference ESA-SCI-SC-LE-134 is also acknowledged. S.J. acknowledges support from ESA contract RFP/3-17233/21/ES/JD, and S.C. from the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Leicester. C.G. acknowledges supports from the Vetlesen Foundation. MARSIS-AIS data processing is supported via ESA contract RFP/3-17233/21/ES/JD. CMJ’s work at DIAS was supported by Science Foundation Ireland Grant 18/FRL/6199 and Irish Research Council Laureate Award SOLMEX. The authors also acknowledge support from MASER (Measurement, Analysis and Simulation of Emissions in the Radio range) and PADC (Paris Astronomical Data Center) at Observatoire de Paris-PSL for sharing the data associated to this study.

We dedicate this work to our colleague and co‑author Hermann Opgenoorth, who sadly passed away during the writing of this paper and made a significant contribution to its conception and scientific development.

Contact
Any question or request should be addressed to contact.maser@obspm.fr

References

  • Sánchez-Cano et al. (2026). Type-III Solar Radio Bursts at Mars: a 16.5-year catalogue from Mars Express-MARSIS at 0.1-5.5 MHz. Space Weather (submitted)

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