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Gyroharmonic properties of the middle-scale artificial ionospheric turbulence during heating of the ionospheric F 2 layer by a high-power O-mode radio wave

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We present the results of studying the properties of artificial F-spread that appears on ionograms during heating of the ionospheric F2 region by a high-power O-mode radio wave. It is shown that the regions of resonant interaction of a high-power radio wave with plasma, where the pump-wave energy is almost totally absorbed and the plasma is subject to intense heating, affect significantly the development of a self-focusing instability of a high-power radio wave and the generation of middle-scale (with characteristic scales across the magnetic field l⊥ ≈ 0.4–1.5 km) artifical ionospheric inhomogeneities. It is established that the intensity of such inhomogeneities depends on the sign and magnitude of detuning of the pump-wave frequency with respect to the electron gyroresonance harmonic frequency Δf = fPW − nfce and has the minimum value for Δf ≈ −20 kHz, thus demonstrating the asymmetry of the gyroharmonic properties of their excitation mechanism. Relationship between the observed phenomena and known characteristics of the artificial ionospheric turbulence for fPW ≈ nfce is analyzed.

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  1. Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. L. Frolov, D. I. Nedzvetsky & V. P. Uryadov

  2. Mari State Technical University, Ioshkar-Ola, Russia

    V. A. Ivanov, D. V. Ivanov, A. R. Lashchevsky & N. V. Ryabova

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 367–375, May 2008.

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Frolov, V.L., Nedzvetsky, D.I., Uryadov, V.P. et al. Gyroharmonic properties of the middle-scale artificial ionospheric turbulence during heating of the ionospheric F 2 layer by a high-power O-mode radio wave. Radiophys Quantum El 51, 331–338 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-008-9034-6

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