Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009
On 9 December 2009 at about 07 UT a solid propellant 36.8 t ballistic rocket was self‐destroyed at an altitude of 170–260 km, at a distance of about 500 km to the east of Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO, 67°22′N, 26°38′E, Finland). After 2–3 h the SGO meteor radar (operating at a frequency 36...
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ftleicester:oai:lra.le.ac.uk:2381/41997 2023-05-15T18:20:17+02:00 Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009 Kozlovsky, Alexander Shalimov, Sergey Lester, Mark 2018-05-08T12:27:19Z https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JA024300 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41997 https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024300 en eng American Geophysical Union http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000405534800054&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8c4e325952a993be76947405d4bce7d5 Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2017, 122 (6), pp. 6696-6707 2169-9380 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JA024300 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41997 doi:10.1002/2017JA024300 2169-9402 Copyright © 2017, American Geophysical Union. Deposited with reference to the publisher’s open access archiving policy. (http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved) Science & Technology Physical Sciences Astronomy & Astrophysics SUMMER ECHOES IONOSPHERE FIELD Journal Article Article;Journal 2018 ftleicester https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024300 2019-03-22T20:25:23Z On 9 December 2009 at about 07 UT a solid propellant 36.8 t ballistic rocket was self‐destroyed at an altitude of 170–260 km, at a distance of about 500 km to the east of Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO, 67°22′N, 26°38′E, Finland). After 2–3 h the SGO meteor radar (operating at a frequency 36.9 MHz) received unusual echoes, which indicate turbulence of ionospheric plasma (irregularities of electron density) with a temporal scale on the order of 0.1 s and a spatial scale of a few to tens of meters. The turbulence occurred at a height of about 80 km and was localized in several areas of about 60 km in horizontal scale. Line‐of‐sight velocity of the irregularities was up to a few tens of meters per second toward the radar. The event occurred in the winter high‐latitude mesosphere during extremely low solar and geomagnetic activity. Aerosol particles caused by the missile explosion played a key role in producing the electron density irregularities. As a possible explanation, we suggest that sedimented by gravity and, hence, moving with respect to the air, charged aerosol particles (presumably composed of aluminum oxide) might produce meter‐scale irregularities (electrostatic waves) via dissipative instability, which is a mechanism analogous to that of the resistive beam‐plasma instability. Peer-reviewed Publisher Version Article in Journal/Newspaper Sodankylä University of Leicester: Leicester Research Archive (LRA) Sodankylä ENVELOPE(26.600,26.600,67.417,67.417) Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 122 6 6696 6707 |
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On 9 December 2009 at about 07 UT a solid propellant 36.8 t ballistic rocket was self‐destroyed at an altitude of 170–260 km, at a distance of about 500 km to the east of Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO, 67°22′N, 26°38′E, Finland). After 2–3 h the SGO meteor radar (operating at a frequency 36.9 MHz) received unusual echoes, which indicate turbulence of ionospheric plasma (irregularities of electron density) with a temporal scale on the order of 0.1 s and a spatial scale of a few to tens of meters. The turbulence occurred at a height of about 80 km and was localized in several areas of about 60 km in horizontal scale. Line‐of‐sight velocity of the irregularities was up to a few tens of meters per second toward the radar. The event occurred in the winter high‐latitude mesosphere during extremely low solar and geomagnetic activity. Aerosol particles caused by the missile explosion played a key role in producing the electron density irregularities. As a possible explanation, we suggest that sedimented by gravity and, hence, moving with respect to the air, charged aerosol particles (presumably composed of aluminum oxide) might produce meter‐scale irregularities (electrostatic waves) via dissipative instability, which is a mechanism analogous to that of the resistive beam‐plasma instability. Peer-reviewed Publisher Version |
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Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009 |
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Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009 |
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Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009 |
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Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009 |
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