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Carozzi et al. 2002
Carozzi, T.D., Thidé, B., Grach, S.M., Leyser, T.B., Holz, M., Komrakov, G.P., Frolov, V.L. and Sergeev, E.N. (2002). Stimulated electromagnetic emissions during pump frequency sweep through fourth electron cyclotron harmonic. Journal of Geophysical Research 107: doi: 10.1029/2001JA005082. issn: 0148-0227.

The frequency of a high-power HF radio wave incident on the ionosphere was swept, using a computer-controlled transmitter signal, in <10 s within a 60-kHz-wide frequency band approximately centered on the fourth harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency. Measurements of the spectral behavior of stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE) across this harmonic after preconditioning could thereby be made with unprecedented resolution, speed, and ionospheric stability. Comparison of local electron cyclotron frequency estimations based on the experimental data reveals discrepancies between certain downshifted maximum models and the empirical broad upshifted maximum (BUM) feature formula ΔfBUM = f0 - nfce. Weak emissions related to the BUM were discovered below the nominal BUM cutoff frequency. Finally, we observed that the intensity of certain SEE components differed depending on the whether the pump frequency sweep was ascending or descending.

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Keywords
Ionosphere, Active experiments, Ionosphere, Instruments and techniques, Radio Science, Nonlinear phenomena, Space Plasma Physics, Radiation processes
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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