Tomoe Taki;Satoshi Kurita;Hirotsugu Kojima;Yoshiya Kasahara;Shoya Matsuda;Ayako Matsuoka;Yoichi Kazama;Chae-Woo Jun;Shiang-Yu Wang;Sunny W. Y. Tam;Tzu-Fang Chang;Bo-Jhou Wang;Yoshizumi Miyoshi;Iku Shinohara
We have analyzed Electrostatic Electron Cyclotron Harmonic (ECH) waves observed using interferometry observation mode performed by the Arase satellite to estimate low-energy electron temperatures. Interferometry can be used to calculate velocities, but the Arase satellite can only perform interferometry observations in a one-dimensional direction. We proposed a method to estimate the wave vector of the observed ECH waves from the observed electric fields and calculated the phase velocity for each frequency. We determined the particle parameters from the particle detector and the upper hybrid resonance and estimated the unknown low-energy electron temperature from the agreement between the observed ECH dispersion relation and the theoretical dispersion curves. We performed our analysis for six events and found that the low-energy electron temperature in the observed region is on the order of 1 eV.
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This paper presents the first ever observations on aspect-sensitive characteristics of 205 MHz stratosphere-troposphere (ST) radar located at a tropical station Cochin (10.04°N, 76.3°E) using volume scanning. The most significant and new observation is that the signal-to-noise ratio in zenith and off-zenith beams are nearly equal in some height region, indicating the presence of isotropic turbulence. Signal strength decreases by 0.75 dB per degree from 0 to 10 degree off-zenith, 0.9 dB per degree from 10 to 20 degree off-zenith and 0.3 dB per degree beyond 20 degree off-zenith. Different causative mechanisms are discussed on the basis of various estimated parameters associated with aspect sensitivity. Maximum aspect sensitivity is observed between 12 and 17 km, indicating the presence of dynamic instability arising due to strong wind shear and atmospheric stability. When both the square of wind shear and stability parameters are above 0.25 × 10 −3