Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3420804m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 20, CiteID L20804
Physics
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Ionosphere: Active Experiments, Ionosphere: Ion Chemistry And Composition (0335), Ionosphere: Ionization Processes (7823), Ionosphere: Modeling And Forecasting
Scientific paper
It is shown theoretically that for high power HF ionospheric heaters, such as the current HAARP heater, the HF to VLF conversion can increase significantly by using a two-timescale heating. A long heating pulse, t p ~ 1 minute, is followed over the same timescale period by modulation at the desired ELF/VLF frequency. The long pulse reduces the electron-ion recombination coefficient, resulting in increased ambient electron density and current density. The efficiency increases due to the increase in the current density over the time t p . Besides, the more efficient heating results from sharpening of the ambient density profile at the modified height that reduces low altitude self-absorption. It is shown that following the long preheating pulse by amplitude modulated heating at VLF frequencies can result in efficiency increase of up to 7 dB over the non-preheated case. In addition to the theory the letter describes proof-of-principle experiments using the completed HAARP.
Milikh Gennady M.
Papadopoulos Konstantinos
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