Studies of Plasma Instability Processes Excited by Ground Based High Power HF ("Heating") Facilities
Abstract
This report results from a contract tasking P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute as follows: The contractor will investigate how high power HF radio waves interact with collisional plasmas, such as the earth's ionosphere. Specifically, the contractor will predict and measure the formation of field aligned small scale striations; and energization of electrons along with their relationship to excited optical emissions. AFRL/AFOSR & AFRL/VS workers (Dr Carlson and coworkers) will provide existing airglow and incoherent scatter radar (ISR) data, and background conditions for boundary inputs to a theoretical calculation. The contractor will perform quantitative comparisons between the parameter values calculated, and those observed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA406188
Entities
People
- Aleksander V. Gurevich