Computer simulations for direct conversion of the HF electromagnetic wave into the upper hybrid wave in ionospheric heating experiments |
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| Authors: | H O Ueda Y Omura H Matsumoto |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Urban Environment and Systems, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263, Japan;(2) Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto Uji, 611, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Excitation of upper hybrid waves associated with the ionospheric heating experiments is assumed to be essential in explaining some of the features of stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE). A direct conversion process is proposed as an excitation mechanism of the upper hybrid waves where the energy of an obliquely propagating electromagnetic pump wave is converted into the electrostatic upper hybrid waves due to small-scale density irregularities. We performed electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations to investigate the energy conversion process in the ionospheric heating experiments. We studied dependence of the amplitude of the excited wave on the propagation angle of the pump wave, scale length of the density irregularity, degree of the irregularity, and thermal velocity of the plasma. The maximum amplitude is found to be 37% of the pump amplitude under an optimum condition. |
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| Keywords: | Ionosphere (ionospheric irregularities plasma waves and instabilities wave-particle interactions) |
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