A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø
Recent ionospheric modification experiments performed at Tromsø, Norway, have indicated that X-mode pump wave is capable of stimulating high-frequency enhanced plasma lines, which manifests the excitation of parametric instability. This paper investigates theoretically how the observation can be exp...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:79829 2023-08-27T04:12:22+02:00 A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø Wang, Xiang Cannon, Patrick Zhou, Chen Honary, Farideh Ni, Binbin Zhao, Zhengyu 2016-04-18 application/pdf https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/1/Wang_et_al_2016.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022411 en eng https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/1/Wang_et_al_2016.pdf Wang, Xiang and Cannon, Patrick and Zhou, Chen and Honary, Farideh and Ni, Binbin and Zhao, Zhengyu (2016) A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121 (4). pp. 3578-3591. ISSN 2169-9402 creative_commons_attribution_noncommercial_4_0_international_license Journal Article PeerReviewed 2016 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022411 2023-08-03T22:29:26Z Recent ionospheric modification experiments performed at Tromsø, Norway, have indicated that X-mode pump wave is capable of stimulating high-frequency enhanced plasma lines, which manifests the excitation of parametric instability. This paper investigates theoretically how the observation can be explained by the excitation of parametric instability driven by X-mode pump wave. The threshold of the parametric instability has been calculated for several recent experimental observations at Tromsø, illustrating that our derived equations for the excitation of parametric instability for X-mode heating can explain the experimental observations. According to our theoretical calculation, a minimum fraction of pump wave electric field needs to be directed along the geomagnetic field direction in order for the parametric instability threshold to be met. A full-wave finite difference time domain simulation has been performed to demonstrate that a small parallel component of pump wave electric field can be achieved during X-mode heating in the presence of inhomogeneous plasma. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Norway Tromsø Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 121 4 3578 3591 |
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Recent ionospheric modification experiments performed at Tromsø, Norway, have indicated that X-mode pump wave is capable of stimulating high-frequency enhanced plasma lines, which manifests the excitation of parametric instability. This paper investigates theoretically how the observation can be explained by the excitation of parametric instability driven by X-mode pump wave. The threshold of the parametric instability has been calculated for several recent experimental observations at Tromsø, illustrating that our derived equations for the excitation of parametric instability for X-mode heating can explain the experimental observations. According to our theoretical calculation, a minimum fraction of pump wave electric field needs to be directed along the geomagnetic field direction in order for the parametric instability threshold to be met. A full-wave finite difference time domain simulation has been performed to demonstrate that a small parallel component of pump wave electric field can be achieved during X-mode heating in the presence of inhomogeneous plasma. |
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Wang, Xiang Cannon, Patrick Zhou, Chen Honary, Farideh Ni, Binbin Zhao, Zhengyu A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø |
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theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by x-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at tromsø |
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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/1/Wang_et_al_2016.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022411 |
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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/79829/1/Wang_et_al_2016.pdf Wang, Xiang and Cannon, Patrick and Zhou, Chen and Honary, Farideh and Ni, Binbin and Zhao, Zhengyu (2016) A theoretical investigation on the parametric instability excited by X-mode polarized electromagnetic wave at Tromsø. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121 (4). pp. 3578-3591. ISSN 2169-9402 |
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