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Radiation of superluminal irregularities artificially created in the lower ionosphere

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We present the results of numerical simulation and physical experiments to verify the possibility of generating a virtual superluminal VLF source by HF ionospheric heating with a scanning beam.

The detection of VLF emission was carried out for the source created in two ways:

  • - by scanning the HF beam in opposite directions with different velocities and

  • - by amplitude modulation of a stationary HF beam.

The amplitude-frequency characteristics of signals obtained in the experiments show the possibility of radiation pattern control of the VLF emission excited by a scanning HF beam.

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  1. L. F. Mironenko
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  2. V. O. Rapoport
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  3. S. N. Mityakov
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Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 298–312, March, 1998.

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Mironenko, L.F., Rapoport, V.O., Mityakov, S.N. et al. Radiation of superluminal irregularities artificially created in the lower ionosphere. Radiophys Quantum Electron 41, 196–205 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676536

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