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Full-scale simulation study of stimulated electromagnetic emissions: The first ten milliseconds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

BENGT ELIASSON  and
LENNART STENFLO
BENGT ELIASSON
Affiliation:
Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE-44780, Bochum, Germany (bengt@tp4.rub.de)
LENNART STENFLO
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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Abstract

A full-scale numerical study is performed of the nonlinear interaction between a large-amplitude electromagnetic wave and the Earth's ionosphere, and of the stimulated electromagnetic emission emerging from the turbulent layer, during the first 10 milliseconds after switch-on of the radio transmitter. The frequency spectra are downshifted in frequency and appear to emerge from a region somewhat below the cutoff of the O mode, which is characterized by Langmuir wave turbulence and localized Langmuir envelopes trapped in ion density cavities. The spectral features of escaping O-mode waves are very similar to those observed in experiments. The frequency components of Z-mode waves, trapped in the region between the O- and Z-mode cutoffs show strongly asymmetric and downshifted spectra.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 76 , Special Issue 3-4: In Honor of Professor Padma Kant Shukla on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday , August 2010 , pp. 369 - 375
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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