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Results of almost two years (January 1999–October 2000) of continuous observations of auroral kilometric radio emission with the instrument AKR-X onboard the high-apogee satellite of the Earth Interball-1 are presented. The observations were conducted at the growth stage (in 1999) and in the maximum (2000) of solar activity within the 100–1500 kHz frequency band. The results of AKR detection in the vicinity of the maximum of its spectrum at a frequency of 252 kHz are presented. Both similarity (for example, the character of global directivity) and important differences from the AKR emission observed during the solar activity minimum [5] are found. Together with very high sporadicity, strong seasonal changes in the intensity are typical for the emission. It is completely absent in the spring-summer period in the Northern Hemisphere and is strongly suppressed in this period in the Southern Hemisphere. Probable nature of these features of AKR is discussed.
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Original Russian Text © V.N. Kuril’chik, V.S. Prokudina, I.F. Kopaeva, 2012, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2012, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 211–218.
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Kuril’chik, V.N., Prokudina, V.S. & Kopaeva, I.F. Observations of auroral kilometric radio emission on the Interball-1 satellite in the active Sun period 1999–2000. Cosmic Res 50, 203–210 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952512020049
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