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Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsa13a1474v&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA13A-1474
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[2403] Ionosphere / Active Experiments, [2437] Ionosphere / Ionospheric Dynamics, [2439] Ionosphere / Ionospheric Irregularities, [2471] Ionosphere / Plasma Waves And Instabilities
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The presence of field aligned density striations plays a critical role in the propagation of whistler waves in the ionosphere. Such density structures have often been observed to extend over distances covering entire magnetic field lines, trapping, channeling and reflecting whistler waves between conjugate regions. The possibility for artificially creating such trans-hemispheric ducts was first discussed by Perrine et al. [2006]. They showed that long term (> 15 minutes) continuous HF-heating of the F-region by powerful ionospheric heaters such as HAARP generates a strong thermal wave in the ionospheric and magnetospheric plasma. This thermal wave propagates along the magnetic field line through the topside ionosphere and magnetosphere, driving ion outflows, displacing the ambient plasma and leading to the formation of density ducts. Two recent experiments detected large scale ducts caused by the HF-heating. One experiment was conducted at HAARP and used the low orbit satellite DEMETER as a diagnostic tool [Milikh et al., 2008]. The experiment shows in situ detected plasma ducts with the spatial scale of a few tens kilometers. Another heating experiment was conducted at the EISCAT HF facility and used UHF radar as a diagnostic tool [Rietveld et al., 2003]. As a result vertical profiles of electron and ion temperature were obtained in the height range 150-600 km. It is the objective of this paper to present the first detailed model of the formation of ionospheric ducts due to HF-heating. The model is checked against the observations made at EISCAT. The results show a good agreement between the model and observations. Milikh, G.M., K. Papadopoulos, et al. (2008), Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL034630. Perrine, R.P., G.M. Milikh, K. Papadopoulos, et al., Radio Sci. (2006), 41, doi:10.1029/2005RS003371. Rietveld, M.T., M.J. Kosch, et al., J. Geophys. Res. (2003), 108, doi:10.1029/2002JA009543.
Demekhov A. G.
Huba J.
Joyce G. R.
Milikh Gennady M.
Papadopoulos Konstantinos
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