Past, present and future of active radio frequency experiments in space

AV Streltsov, JJ Berthelier, AA Chernyshov… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Active ionospheric experiments using high-power, high-frequency transmitters,“heaters”, to
study plasma processes in the ionosphere and magnetosphere continue to provide new …

CASSIOPE enhanced polar outflow probe (e-POP) mission overview

AW Yau, HG James - Space Science Reviews, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) on the polar-orbiting CASSIOPE small
satellite (325× 1500 km, 80° inclination) is a suite of 8 plasma instruments, including …

New capabilities of the upgraded EISCAT high‐power HF facility

MT Rietveld, A Senior, J Markkanen… - Radio Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐power HF (high‐frequency) facility (commonly known as Heating) near Tromsø,
Norway, which is an essential part of the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association …

Sounding of HF heating-induced artificial ionospheric disturbances by navigational satellite radio transmissions

VE Kunitsyn, ES Andreeva, VL Frolov… - Radio …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During experiments carried out in 2009–2011 the midlatitude ionosphere was modified by
powerful HF pulses from the Sura heating facility located near Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) …

Modification of the high latitude ionosphere F region by X-mode powerful HF radio waves: Experimental results from multi-instrument diagnostics

NF Blagoveshchenskaya, TD Borisova… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present experimental results concentrating on a variety of phenomena in the high
latitude ionosphere F2 layer induced by an extraordinary (X-mode) HF pump wave at high …

Optical and ionospheric phenomena at EISCAT under continuous X‐mode HF pumping

NF Blagoveshchenskaya, TD Borisova… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present experimental results from multiinstrument observations in the high‐latitude
ionospheric F2 layer at the EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association) …

An efficient 3-D FDTD model of electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetized plasma

A Samimi, JJ Simpson - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in the upper atmosphere is important for space
weather effects, satellite communications ionospheric modification experiments, and many …

Dynamic properties of ionospheric plasma turbulence driven by high-power high-frequency radiowaves

SM Grach, EN Sergeev, EV Mishin… - Physics-Uspekhi, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A review is given of the current state-of-the-art of experimental studies and the theoretical
understanding of nonlinear phenomena that occur in the ionospheric F-layer irradiated by …

Inhibition of parametric decay in heating microwave beams during fluctuations of the density profile in the edge island of Wendelstein 7-X

A Tancetti, SK Nielsen, J Rasmussen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental evidence of parametric decay instability (PDI) is observed in the Wendelstein 7-
X stellarator, when high-power microwave beams cross a stationary magnetic island at the …

Characterization of multi-scale ionospheric irregularities using ground-based and space-based GNSS observations

YX Peng, WA Scales, MD Hartinger, Z Xu, S Coyle - Satellite Navigation, 2021 - Springer
Ionospheric irregularities can adversely affect the performance of Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS). However, this opens the possibility of using GNSS as an effective …