VLF wave generation by amplitude-modulated HF heater waves at Gakona, Alaska

Details VLF wave generation by amplitude-modulated HF heater waves at Gakona, Alaska VLF wave generation by amplitude-modulated HF heater waves at Gakona, Alaska

Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3513101k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 13, CiteID L13101

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Space Plasma Physics: Active Perturbation Experiments, Space Plasma Physics: Nonlinear Phenomena (4400, 6944), Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Wave Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984), Space Plasma Physics: Turbulence (4490)

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Experiments conducted at Gakona, Alaska, using the intensity-modulated HF heating waves to interact with electrojet currents for the generation of VLF waves, are reported. An unexpected large increasing rate from 4 to 8 kHz in the frequency dependency of the VLF radiation intensity was observed. The peak value at 8 kHz was intense (about 7.5 dB above that of the 2 kHz signal used as a marker) and the wave intensity from 5 to 17 kHz appeared to be abnormally high (i.e., stronger than that at 2 kHz). In the experiments, we also observed the enhancement of spread-E irregularities at electrojet current altitudes due to the amplitude-modulated heater wave. These results and theoretical analyses suggest that temporally modulated electrojet currents mix with heater wave-excited density irregularities to form whistler mode currents, which generate VLF whistler waves directly with much larger intensities and better directivity than a Hertzian dipole can.

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