Artificial optical emissions at HAARP for pump frequencies near the third and second electron gyro-harmonic

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1585-1592

  Kosch, M J ^a,b,c   Pedersen, T ^a   Hughes, J ^d   Marshall, R ^e   Gerken, E ^f   Senior, A ^b   Sentman, D ^d   McCarrick, M ^g   Djuth, F T ^h  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cornell University   (United States)

^g Advanced Power Technology Inc   (United States)

^h Geospace Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Active experiments; Auroral ionosphere; Wave particle interactions

Indexed keywords

AURORA; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 24044451210     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-1585-2005     Document Type: Article

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