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Artificial airglow
For experimental work on HF induced artificial airglow, ALIS is an
invaluable instrument, in that the sensitivity and signal-to-noise
ratio of the current detectors lead to unmatched quality in the
observations. The multi-station configuration further allows the
possibility of retrieving the three-dimensional distribution of
emissions with a time resolution of 10 (proven) to 5 (possible)
s. Together with the EISCAT Heating and EISCAT UHF this opens up
mind-breaking opportunities for experiments:
- Study HF-pumping at gyro-harmonic frequency, giving a direct
answer as to which process (Langmuir turbulence or upper hybrid
turbulence) is dominant in producing the excitation.
- Measure the ratio between the red and green emissions to bring
clarity to the character of the electron distribution. This should
be done with varying radiative power to investigate the intensity
response to the radiated effect in both wavelengths.
- Make measurements of enhanced airglow with all stations
simultaneously in order to improve the quality and validity of the
volume emission distribution estimate.
- Study the transition from the initially speckled airglow
distribution to the ``simpler'' steady state distribution.
This should be accomplished by varying the radiative effect.
- Investigate the relation between dynasond and EISCAT UHF
measurements of convection, FPI measurements of the neutral wind
with the drift of the airglow clouds and the neutral wind
estimates,. The current 3D modelling of the 6300 Å airglow gives
atmospheric parameters such as neutral wind,
- Determine the relation between the antenna pattern of the EISCAT
Heating beam
and the shape of the excitation rate distribution.
- Test the altitude variation of the effective lifetime of
, which could be an efficient way of measuring the
altitude variation in neutral density, and could possibly resolve
the question about which quenching reactions are important for
. This can be achieved by measuring the decay of
artificial airglow for several HF-pulses while the FH-plasma interaction
increases due to the decaying electron concentration in the F-region.
- Search for the wide peaks at 1 MHz offset from the ion line in the
EISCAT VHF spectrum that are are predicted in paper V.. This
spectral shape is a consequence of the electron neutral
interaction. It is possible to measure the magnitude of this
effect.
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copyright Björn Gustavsson 2000-10-24
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