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The disturbance generation model for the total electron content of the ionosphere and formation of the narrowband spectrum of electromagnetic disturbance on the Earth during a rocket flight along the horizontal leg of the trajectory has been considered. It has been indicated that a change in the total electron content is caused by the propagation of an acoustic gravity wave pulse, generated during a rocket flight along the horizontal trajectory leg, in the ionosphere. This pulse forms horizontal inhomogeneities of ionospheric conductivity in the bottomside ionosphere. Electric currents, induced by the background electromagnetic field in these inhomogeneities, are emitters of discrete modes of coherent gyrotropic waves propagating horizontally in a conductive layer of a finite thickness in the bottomside ionosphere. The line spectrum of electromagnetic disturbances has been calculated. The calculation results agree with the observational data.
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Original Russian Text © I.Yu. Sergeev, V.M. Sorokin, A.K. Yashchenko 2008, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 49–59.
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Sergeev, I.Y., Sorokin, V.M. & Yashchenko, A.K. Electromagnetic and plasma effects during a carrier rocket flight. Geomagn. Aeron. 48, 45–55 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793208010064
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