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Density ducts formed by heating the Earth’s ionosphere with high-power HF radio waves

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The parameters of plasma disturbances at altitudes 660 and 840 km, measured by the instruments onboard the French DEMETER satellite and the US DMSP satellites passing through the magnetic flux tube footed at the region of intense modification of the F 2 ionospheric layer by the high-power HF radio waves of the Sura heating facility, are presented. The formation of artificial enhanced-density plasma ducts in the outer ionosphere is observed experimentally. Conditions facilitating the formation of such ducts are pointed out.

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  1. Radiophysical Research Institute, ul. Bol’shaya Pecherskaya 25, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    V. L. Frolov, V. O. Rapoport & G. P. Komrakov

  2. Nizhni Novgorod State University, pr. Gagarina 23, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    A. S. Belov & G. A. Markov

  3. Environment Physics and Chemistry Laboratory (LPCE), Orleans, France

    M. Parrot & J. L. Rauch

  4. Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    E. V. Mishin

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Original Russian Text © V.L. Frolov, V.O. Rapoport, G.P. Komrakov, A.S. Belov, G.A. Markov, M. Parrot, J.L. Rauch, E.V. Mishin, 2008, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 88, No. 12, pp. 908–913.

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Frolov, V.L., Rapoport, V.O., Komrakov, G.P. et al. Density ducts formed by heating the Earth’s ionosphere with high-power HF radio waves. Jetp Lett. 88, 790–794 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002136400824003X

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