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T1 - Cluster spacecraft observations of a ULF wave enhanced by Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar (SPEAR)
AU - Badman, S. V.
AU - Wright, D. M.
AU - Clausen, L. B. N.
AU - Fear, R. C.
AU - Robinson, T. R.
AU - Yeoman, T. K.
N1 - © Author(s) 2009. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar (SPEAR) is a high-latitude ionospheric heating facility capable of exciting ULF waves on local magnetic field lines. We examine an interval from 1 February 2006 when SPEAR was transmitting a 1 Hz modulation signal with a 10 min on-off cycle. Ground magnetometer data indicated that SPEAR modulated currents in the local ionosphere at 1 Hz, and enhanced a natural field line resonance with a 10 min period. During this interval the Cluster spacecraft passed over the heater site. Signatures of the SPEAR-enhanced field line resonance were present in the magnetic field data measured by the magnetometer on-board Cluster-2. These are the first joint ground- and space-based detections of field line tagging by SPEAR.
AB - Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar (SPEAR) is a high-latitude ionospheric heating facility capable of exciting ULF waves on local magnetic field lines. We examine an interval from 1 February 2006 when SPEAR was transmitting a 1 Hz modulation signal with a 10 min on-off cycle. Ground magnetometer data indicated that SPEAR modulated currents in the local ionosphere at 1 Hz, and enhanced a natural field line resonance with a 10 min period. During this interval the Cluster spacecraft passed over the heater site. Signatures of the SPEAR-enhanced field line resonance were present in the magnetic field data measured by the magnetometer on-board Cluster-2. These are the first joint ground- and space-based detections of field line tagging by SPEAR.
KW - Ionosphere
U2 - 10.5194/angeo-27-3591-2009
DO - 10.5194/angeo-27-3591-2009
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 3591
EP - 3599
JO - Annales Geophysicae
JF - Annales Geophysicae
SN - 0992-7689
IS - 9
ER -