ACCELERATION OF ELECTRONS IN THE IONOSPHERE UNDER THE ACTION OF INTENSE RADIO-WAVES NEAR ELECTRON-CYCLOTRON HARMONICS

被引:18
作者
DIMANT, YS
GUREVICH, AV
ZYBIN, KP
机构
[1] Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Troitsk, Moscow Region
[2] P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), Moscow, 117924
来源
JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS | 1992年 / 54卷 / 3-4期
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10.1016/0021-9169(92)90021-C
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
The effect of electron acceleration by intense ionospheric plasma turbulence induced by a high-power radio wave is studied theoretically, under conditions when the turbulence frequency is nearly equal to harmonics of the electron-cyclotron frequency. The turbulence located in a thin layer at the region of the pump-wave upper-hybrid resonance gives rise to the formation of an intense electron distribution-function tail at high energies. Given the resonantly absorbed fraction of the pump-wave energy and the typical plasma turbulence scale, one can estimate the turbulence energy density and calculate the modified electron distribution function.
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页数:12
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