scholarly journals Toward an integrated view of ionospheric plasma instabilities: 2. Three inertial modes of a cubic dispersion relation

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (7) ◽  
pp. 6855-6869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman A. Makarevich
Keyword(s):  
Dispersion Relation ◽  
Ionospheric Plasma ◽  
Plasma Instabilities

scholarly journals Numerical simulations of a three-wave coupling occurring in the ionospheric plasma

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Usui ◽  
H. Matsumoto ◽  
R. Gendrin
Keyword(s):  
Dispersion Relation ◽  
Ionospheric Plasma ◽  
Pump Wave ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Hybrid Wave ◽  
Local Electron ◽  
Coupling Condition ◽  
Langmuir Waves ◽  
Wave Coupling ◽  
Coupling Process

Abstract. We studied a three-wave coupling process occurring in an active experiment of microwave power transmission (MPT) in the ionospheric plasma by performing one-dimensional electromagnetic PIC (Particle-In-Cell) simulations. In order to examine the spatial variation of the coupling process, we continuously emitted intense electromagnetic waves from an antenna located at a simulation boundary. In the three-wave coupling, a low-frequency electrostatic wave is excited as the result of a nonlinear interaction between the forward propagating pump wave and backscattered wave. In the simulations, low-frequency electrostatic bursts are discontinuously observed in space. The discontinuity of the electrostatic bursts is accounted for by the local electron heating due to the bursts and the associated modification of the wave dispersion relation. In a case where the pump wave propagates along the geomagnetic field Bext , several bursts of Langmuir waves are observed. Since the first burst consumes a part of the pump wave energy, the pump wave is weakened and cannot trigger the three-wave coupling beyond the region where the burst occurs. Since the dispersion relation of the Langmuir wave is variable, due to the local electron heating by the burst, the coupling condition eventually becomes unsatisfied and the first interaction becomes weak. Another burst of Langmuir waves is observed at a different region beyond the location of the first burst. In the case of perpendicular propagation, the upper hybrid wave, one of the mode branches of the electron cyclotron harmonic waves, is excited. Since the dispersion relation of the upper hybrid wave is less sensitive to the electron temperature, the coupling condition is not easily violated by the temperature increase. As a result, the three-wave coupling periodically takes place in time and eventually, the transmission ratio of the microwaves becomes approximately 20%, while almost no attenuation of the pump waves is observed after the first electrostatic burst in the parallel case. We also examined the dependency of the temporal growth rate for the electrostatic waves on the amplitude of the pump wave.

scholarly journals The thresholds of ionospheric plasma instabilities pumped by high‐frequency radio waves at EISCAT

2013 ◽  
Vol 118 (11) ◽  
pp. 7472-7481 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Bryers ◽  
M. J. Kosch ◽  
A. Senior ◽  
M. T. Rietveld ◽  
T. K. Yeoman
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Ionospheric Plasma ◽  
Plasma Instabilities ◽  
Radio Waves

Modification of ionospheric plasma in the near Rf field of a dipole antenna: active experiment in space

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
N.V. Baranets ◽  
V.V. Afonin ◽  
V.A. Gladyshev ◽  
Y.P. Sobolev ◽  
G.P. Komrakov
Keyword(s):  
Ionospheric Plasma ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Active Experiment

Identification of earthquakes with the use of Sich-2 probe measurements of ionospheric plasma perturbations

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (5(84)) ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
V.A. Shuvalov ◽  
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D.N. Lazuchenkov ◽  
S.V. Nosikov ◽  
G.S. Kochubey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ionospheric Plasma ◽  
Probe Measurements
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