We describe the method and the results of modeling and retrieval of the spatial distribution of excited oxygen atoms in the HF-pumped ionospheric region based on two-station records of artificial airglow in the red line (λ = 630 nm). The HF ionospheric pumping was provided by the Sura facility. The red-line records of the night-sky portraits were obtained at two reception points—directly at the heating facility and 170 km east of it. The results were compared with the vertical ionospheric sounding data. It was found that in the course of the experiments the airglow region was about 250 km high and did not depend on the altitude of the pump-wave resonance. The characteristic size of the region was 35 km, and the shape of the distribution isosurfaces was well described by oblique spheroids or a drop-shaped form. The average value of the maximum concentration of excited atoms during the experiment was about 1000 cm−3.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 60, No. 11, pp. 949–966, November 2017.
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Shindin, A., Klimenko, V.V., Kogogin, D.A. et al. Spatial Characteristics of the 630-nm Artificial Ionospheric Airglow Generation Region During the Sura Facility Pumping. Radiophys Quantum El 60, 849–865 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-018-9852-0
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