Ionospheric heating for radiation belt control
Abstract
Pitch-angle scattering interactions of electromagnetic waves in the ELF/VLF bands with trapped electrons describe the dynamics of the freshly filled radiation belts flux tubes. The natural existence of a 'slot' region with electron fluxes below the Kennel-Petschek limit requires non-local wave sources. A set of planned, active experiments is described in which VLF radiation is injected from ground and space band transmitters in conjunction with the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite in the radiation belts. These experiments can measure the intensity if waves driving pitch-angle diffusion and the electron energies in gyroresonance with the waves.
- Publication:
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In AGARD
- Pub Date:
- October 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990imip.agarU....B
- Keywords:
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- Electrons;
- Flux (Rate);
- Ionospheric Heating;
- Radiation Belts;
- Very Low Frequencies;
- Wave Scattering;
- Angular Distribution;
- Diffusion;
- Electron Energy;
- Pitch (Inclination);
- Radiation Effects;
- Transmitters;
- Wave Interaction;
- Geophysics