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Survey of conditions for artificial aurora experiments by the second electron gyro-harmonic at EISCAT Tromso using dynasonde data

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  • T. T. Tsuda
  • M. T. Rietveld
  • M. J. Kosch
  • S. Oyama
  • Y. Ogawa
  • K. Hosokawa
  • S. Nozawa
  • T. Kawabata
  • A. Mizuno
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Article number94
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>6/06/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Earth, Planets and Space
Volume70
Number of pages10
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We report a brief survey of matching conditions for artificial aurora optical experiments utilizing the second electron gyro-harmonic (2.7-MHz frequency) in F region heating with O-mode at the EISCAT Tromso site using dynasonde data from 2000 to 2017. Our survey indicates the following: The possible conditions for successful artificial aurora experiments are concentrated on twilight hours in both evening and morning, compared with late night hours; the possible conditions appear in fall, winter, and spring, while there is no chance in summer, and the month-to-month variation among fall, winter, and spring is not so clear; the year-to-year variation is well correlated with the solar activity. These characteristics in the case of 2.7-MHz frequency are basically similar to those previously reported in the case of 4-MHz frequency. However, the number of days meeting the possible condition in the case of 2.7-MHz frequency is obviously large, compared with that in the case of 4-MHz frequency. In particular, unlike the 4-MHz frequency operation, the 2.7-MHz frequency operation can provide many chances for successful artificial aurora experiments even during the solar minimum.