地基高频加热激励ELF/VLF波对辐射带高能电子的准线性散射

地球内、外辐射带电子通量的变化对于空间飞行器,尤其是中低轨卫星的防护有着非常重要的影响.基于回旋共振波粒相互作用的准线性理论,使用地基高频发射器发射电波调制低电离层背景电流可以人工激励ELF/VLF波,这些波能使辐射带相对论电子发生抛射角散射沉降进入大气层从而降低其生存期.为了定量地分析人工激励ELF/VLF波散射辐射带高能粒子的可行性,针对内、外辐射带,本文选取了两个典型区域：L=4.6和L=1.5.数值计算结果表明,在内、外辐射带由于ELF/VLF波的人工注入而造成的高能电子损失时间尺度很大程度上取决于冷等离子体参量α^*(∝B²/N₀,这里B是背景磁场,N₀是电子数密度)、电波频谱特性和功率,以及与波发生回旋共振的电子能量.一般来讲,在外辐射带人工ELF/VLF哨声波散射相对论电子使之沉降到大气层要容易得多;低能量的高能电子(200keV)要比高能量的相对论电子(500keV)更有效地通过抛射角散射进入大气层.考虑到高频电波加热电离层激励的ELF/VLF波可能会被捕获在磁层空腔中,来回反射从而得到增强,因此在适当的条件下,地基高频加热装置发射足够的电波功率进入电离层诱导大幅度ELF/VLF波注入到内磁层,能够在1至3天的时间尺度内快速散射外辐射带相对论电子使之沉降,也能够在10天量级的时间尺度里散射生存周期一般为100天甚至更长的内辐射带相对论电子. 关键词： 地基高频加热电离层 ELF/VLF波激励 高能电子散射和沉降 共振波粒相互作用     

斜入射非线性电离层Langmuir扰动的电磁波传播特性

基于广义Zakharov模型,结合斜入射等离子体的时域有限差分(FDTD)方法与双流体力学方程,通过由二维麦克斯韦方程等价转换的一维麦克斯韦方程,与等离子体流体力学方程建立了一个电磁波以不同角度入射电离层传播的数值模型.分析推导出TE_z波在斜入射非线性电离层等离子体的支配方程,然后推导了适用于计算电离层电磁波传播特性的FDTD算法.通过仿真来证明该方法在较小倾角下,电磁波对电离层加热形成Langmuir扰动及其传播特性的准确性和有效性.结果表明,在小角度入射下,大功率高频电磁波在电离层等离子体中的O波反射点附近激发出了Langmuir波,同时波粒相互作用导致O波转换为Z波并向电离层更高区域传播.本文进一步研究了基于电离层等离子体的电磁波传播特性,为全面深入分析电离层Langmuir扰动对电离层电波传播特性影响奠定数值算法的基础.     

基于试验粒子模拟的电离层人工调制激发的极低频和甚低频波对磁层高能电子的散射效应

电离层调制加热能够有效激发极低频和甚低频(ELF/VLF)波,其中向上传播进入磁层的ELF/VLF波能够与高能电子发生共振相互作用,具有人工沉降高能电子、消除辐射带等潜在实际用途.本文综合运用射线追踪和试验粒子方法模拟电离层人工激发的单频ELF/VLF波在电离层和磁层的传播,以及在外辐射带层与高能电子的共振相互作用过程,通过投掷角和能量散射系数评估人工ELF/VLF波对磁层高能电子的共振散射效应.研究表明,电离层人工ELF/VLF波传播到磁层后呈现高倾斜性,传播所能跨域的空间范围主要取决于加热的纬度位置和调制频率.在内辐射带,与～100 keV到几个MeV高能电子发生一阶共振相互作用的为10 kHz的VLF波段;在外辐射带,为几百Hz到1 kHz的ELF波段.对于L=4.5的外辐射带,试验粒子模拟结果显示,单个粒子在人工ELF波作用下投掷角和能量(α,E)的改变具有随机性,而所有试验粒子平均化的?α2和?E2随时间呈现出近似线性的增大,说明波粒共振散射过程体现出整体性.基于试验粒子模拟得到的共振散射系数表明,幅度为10 pT的人工ELF波可在外辐射带的磁赤道局地对1 MeV电子产生较强的投掷角散射效应,进而影响高能电子的损失、沉降等动力学过程.当人工ELF/VLF波在传播过程中变得高度倾斜,不仅最基本的一阶共振十分重要,高阶共振散射也具有较大效应.这些定量分析结果表明,通过电离层加热激发人工ELF/VLF哨声波来沉降、消除辐射带高能电子具有可行性.     

低纬电离层人工调制所激发的ELF波射线追踪

通过大功率极低频(ELF)/甚低频(VLF)高频调幅波能有效地扰动低电离层电流, 形成等效的ELF/VLF电离层虚拟天线,辐射ELF/VLF波, 所辐射出的低频信号能够传播进入到磁层,对其传播特性的研究对于理解辐射带高能电子沉降具有重要意义.本文基于磁层射线追踪理论,通过数值模拟得到在低纬地区所激发出的ELF波在磁层中的射线路径,并对其特征进行分析.数值模拟结果表明, 从低纬激发的ELF波在南北半球来回弹跳,并逐渐传播到更远处,对于不同频率的ELF波, 频率越高,传播距离越近,频率越低,传播距离越远,在传播过程中, ELF波会逐渐倾向于在一个固定的磁层区域附近来回反射,在此过程中波法向角也逐渐变为90°,射线方向倾向于沿着背景磁场方向传播.     

高温非平衡条件下氟原子亲电动力学的激波管研究

用激波管方法研究了氟原子亲电动力学.利用反射激波加热获得离子化气体,随后经冷却速度达106K/s的强稀疏波冷却,离化气体将经历以电子复合为主的非平衡过程.用Langmuir静电探针监测反射激波后离子浓度随时间的演变,分析了探针工作状态,引入了探针鞘层内的弹性散射修正.测定了温度在1200～2200K以氩气为碰撞第三体的F原子与电子复合速率系数,讨论了温度依赖关系.     

飞秒激光热反射系统测量金属薄膜中的热波

金属材料中的热波现象可以利用包含电子弛豫时间影响的双曲两步模型进行理论分析.通过飞秒激光热反射实验系统对金属薄膜材料进行了测量.利用偏振分光棱镜将飞秒激光分成抽运光和探测光,其中较强的抽运光用于加热金属薄膜而较弱的探测光用于探测薄膜表面反射率随时间的变化,两束光之间的光程差通过步进电机进行精确控制.利用金属薄膜反射率和电子温度的正比例关系就可以得到电子温度随时间的变化规律.实验发现在加热激光脉冲过后的电子温度下降区间会出现另一个较弱的电子温度波峰,并利用相同厚度的两块金属薄膜样品重复测量对实验结果进行了验证.理论上这一现象可以解释为金属薄膜中热波在背面反射的结果,并且实验结果和双曲两步模型给出的热波理论计算结果相符合.根据实验结果计算出热波传递速度约为5×105m/s,对应的电子弛豫时间为60fs.     

螺旋线行波管电子效率改善的数值模拟

 运用全电磁2.5维粒子模拟软件MAGIC和3维高频结构仿真软件HFSS，模拟仿真了正-负双跳变慢波结构对螺旋线行波管电子效率的改善，从慢波系统高频参量、非同步参量、增益参量和电子注相位等角度进行了讨论。设计并加工了一支采用双跳变结构的螺旋线行波管，实测结果表明：采用双跳变结构后可将电子效率从19%提高到29%；模拟仿真方法得到的平均相对误差为5%左右。     

含突发E层的电离层模型建立及其在测高中的应用

针对高频射线测高模型未考虑电离层突发E层(sporadic-E,Es层)的问题,从电离层物理结构特性入手,结合实测的电离层垂测数据,在多层准抛物模型的基础上研究了含Es层的电离层模型及其在目标高度测量中的应用.首先,利用反转抛物线特性模拟了含Es的电离层模型,并得到了等离子体频率与高度的关系;然后,利用该模型分析了射线的电离层传输路径与发射仰角/频率的关系以及高频射线微多径特征与目标高度的关系;最后,结合含Es的电离层模型与射线微多径特征,提出了基于分段爬山搜索的快速匹配域测高方法,该方法能大大减少搜索时间.研究结果表明:含Es的电离层模型和提出的测高方法能准确估计出目标高度,并具有较强的实时性.     

两级溴化锂气泡泵的泵起时间及其影响因素的实验研究

为了进一步提高能源利用效率和实现其空冷化,在双效溴化锂吸收式制冷系统中利用两级气泡泵代替溴化锂吸收制冷系统中传统的机械溶液泵。本文重点对两级溴化锂气泡泵的泵起时间及其影响因素做相关的实验研究,并得出以下的主要研究结果:1)对于不同的管径,两级气泡泵的泵起时间随着加热功率、浸没高度、工质浓度的变化趋势是基本一致的;2)加热功率越大越有利于气泡泵的泵起;3)随着浸没高度的增大气泡泵的泵起时间逐渐减小;4)工质浓度的增大也会使气泡泵的泵起时间增大,但当溴化锂溶液浓度大于54%后影响不明显;5)一级气泡泵的气液成分及中间溶液的闪发一定程度上影响两级气泡泵的泵起时间,因而造成局部区域与上述规律的偏离。     

受控核聚变——现代物理学的一个重要前沿领域(之五)

五、如何达到点火温度核聚变研究的重要目标之一是设法把等离子体的温度提高到10keV以上.这是实现聚变点火必不可少的基本条件之一.主要的加热手段包括欧姆加热,高能中性粒子束注入加热,大功率射频波加热,绝热压缩加热和α粒子加热等.1.欧姆加热的原理及其局限性众所周知,等离子体是良导体,但具有一定的电阻,一旦有电流通过,因电阻效应而得到了加热.按照欧姆定律,其加热功率密度表示为:P=ηj~2,式中η是等离子体电阻率,可表示为η=2.8×10~(-8)/T(?)(欧姆米),其中电子温度T_(?)以keV为单位.这个简单表达式是假定采用氢等离子体、其密度为10~(20)m~(-3)情况下代入著名的斯必泽公式得到的.从上式中可知,随着等离子体电子温度的不断升高,其电阻率急剧下降,由此引起欧姆加热的功率密度急剧下降.这说明欧姆加热这种方式有局限性.我们知道,所有托卡马克的等离子体最初都由环向的等离子体电流提供欧姆加热.但经过计算表明,仅依靠欧姆加热,其电子温度至多加热到1.5keV左右.为使等离子体达到10keV以上的聚变点火温度,必须在欧姆加热的基础上采用等离子体辅助加热.目前获得成功并受到广泛重视的辅助加热手段有高能中性粒子束注入法和射频波共振吸收法.     

Magnetic zenith effect and some features of the multifractal structure of the small-scale artificial ionospheric turbulence

We present the results of the experiment on studying the multifractal structure (with inhomogeneity sizes from tens to hundreds of meters across the Earth’s magnetic field) of the artificial ionospheric turbulence when the midlatitude ionosphere is affected by high-power HF radio waves. The experimental studies were performed on the basis of the “Sura” heating facility with the help of radio sounding of the disturbed region of the ionospheric plasma by signals from the Earth’s orbital satellites. The influence of the magnetic zenith effect on measured multifractal characteristics of the small-scale artificial turbulence of the midlatitude ionosphere was examined. In the case of vertical radio sounding of the disturbed ionosphere region, the measured multipower and generalized multifractal spectra of turbulence coincide well with similar multifractal characteristics of the ionospheric turbulence under natural conditions. This result is explained by the fact that the scattering of signals by weak quasi-isotropic small-scale inhomogeneities of the electron number density in a thick layer with a typical size of several hundred kilometers above the region of reflection of high-power HF radio waves gives the major contribution to the observed amplitude fluctuations of received signals. In the case of oblique sounding of the disturbance region at small angles between the line of sight to the satellite and the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field, the nonuniform structure of the small-scale turbulence with a relatively narrow multipower spectrum and small variations in the generalized multifractal spectrum of the electron number density was detected. Such a fairly well ordered structure of the turbulence is explained by the influence of the magnetic zenith effect on the generation of anisotropic small-scale artificial turbulence in a thin layer having a typical size of several ten kilometers and located below the pump-wave reflection height in the upper ionosphere.     

Experimental Studies of the Effects Observed During the Nonlinear Interaction of Two High-Power Radio Waves in a Magnetoplasma

We present the results of experiments on modification of the ionospheric F region by two high-power (P_eff 20 MW) O-mode electromagnetic waves. The experiments were performed at the Sura heating facility of the Radiophysical Research Institute (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) in May 23–27, 1993 at the pump frequencies near the 4th, 5th, or 6th harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency. Ionospheric perturbations were diagnosed by measuring the stationary spectral characteristics of the stimulated electromagnetic emission (SEE) of the ionospheric plasma. We determine the features of variation in the spectral characteristics of particular SEE components during the simultaneous heating of the ionospheric plasma by two radio waves in comparison with the case of a monochromatic pump wave. We observed the effect of enhanced generation of the broad up-shifted maximum (BUM) by the higher-frequency pump wave. This is accompanied by strong suppression of the BUM induced by the lower-frequency pump wave. It is shown that the effects observed during the two-frequency heating of the ionosphere have well pronounced gyroharmonic properties, i.e., depend on both the electron-gyroharmonic number and the frequency detuning of the pump waves from a harmonic of the electron gyrofrequency. We also pointed out that a change in the properties of artificial small-scale ionospheric irregularities (striations) excited by high-power radio waves is not the cause of a change in the properties of the down-shifted maximum and the BUM during the two-frequency modification of the ionospheric plasma. Ways for the further development of these studies are discussed.__________Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 110–133, February 2005.     

ELF emission generated by the HAARP HF-heater using varying frequency and polarization

We present first observations of the ELF emission generated by the modulated ionospheric HF-heating using the HAARP facility. We focus primarily on the dependence of the polarization and of the amplitude of the ELF wave upon the frequency and polarization of the heating radio wave. A simple 1D computational model of the ELF generation based on the earlier developed model of a horizontal magnetic dipole caused by the HF ionospheric heating [1] is presented. The model develops a qualitative understanding of the changes in the ELF amplitude and polarization due to variations of the heating frequency. The obtained results imply that polarization of the ELF emission generated by the ionospheric HF-heating can be controlled by changing the frequency or polarization of the radio wave. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 728–735, August 1999.     

电离层中性气体释放的早期试验效应研究

在电离层释放电子吸附类中性气体能够引起电离层电子密度耗空,在释放之后快速形成"电离层洞";同时,由于释放气体的快速膨胀,挤压背景等离子体,在电离层洞的外边缘产生"壳状"电子密度增强结构,电离层洞和电子密度增强结构同时存在是释放早期试验效应的显著特征.本文研究了电离层中性气体释放的早期试验效应,建立了释放早期电子密度的时空演化物理模型,仿真了释放早期电子密度的时空演化过程,同时采用射线追踪方法研究了释放后10 s和120 s不同频率信号在扰动区的传播效应,并反演得到了电离层垂直探测电离图,反演结果与一次火箭喷焰的实际观测结果吻合较好,初步验证了本模型的正确性.     

Excitation of a magnetospheric maser through modification of the Earth’s ionosphere by high-power HF radio emission from a ground-based transmitter

A method for controlled excitation of a magnetospheric maser through the production of artificial density ducts by high-power HF radio emission from the Earth’s surface has been proposed and implemented in an in-situ experiment. Artificial density ducts allow one to affect the maser resonator system and the excitation and propagation of low-frequency electromagnetic waves in a disturbed magnetic flux tube. The experimental data presented here were obtained at the mid-latitude Sura heating facility. The characteristics of electromagnetic and plasma disturbances at outer-ionosphere altitudes were measured using the onboard equipment of the DEMETER satellite as it passed through the magnetic flux tube rested on the region of intense generation of artificial ionospheric turbulence.     

Laboratory study of nonlinear trapping of magnetized Langmuir waves inside a density depletion

The formation of a small-scale plasma density depletion region extended along the ambient magnetic field and caused by the nonlinear interaction of the upper-hybrid plasma waves with a magnetoplasma has been observed under laboratory conditions modeling the ionospheric heating experiments. Plasma waves are trapped inside the depletion due to their specific dispersion properties. The threshold of the nonlinear wave trapping significantly increases in the vicinity of the harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency.     

Low-threshold parametric decay instabilities in the experiments on the electron cyclotron resonance heating in tokamaks and stellarators

The experimental conditions have been analyzed for a significant reduction of the threshold of the reflective parametric decay instabilities under electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) of a plasma in magnetic devices in the absence of the upper hybrid resonance for the pump wave. The role of the nonmonotonic profile of the plasma density near the O point of the magnetic island, which allows for the localization of ion Bernstein waves in the direction of the density gradient and the suppression of convective losses from the decay region has been discussed. It has been shown that the threshold of the instability of the induced backscattering near the local maximum of the density profile is decreased by four orders of magnitude and is easily exceeded in present-day ECRH experiments at a power of several hundred kilowatts.     

Excitation of short-wave oscillations in the ionospheric plasma by the field of a high-power radio wave with extraordinary polarization due to induced scattering by ions

We analyze excitation of electron-cyclotron or upper hybrid oscillations of the ionospheric plasma at a frequency that is close to the pump frequency as a result of induced scattering of a high-power radio wave with extraordinary polarization by ions. The excited oscillations have a small wavelength of the order of the Larmor electron radius, which allows them to propagate near and below the reflection level of an extraordinary radio wave. We found the instability increment and threshold field, which results from collisional absorption of plasma waves. It is shown that the threshold field is minimal near the reflection level of an extraordinary radio wave when the radio wave frequency f₀ is between electron harmonics nf_Be with n≥2. In an ionospheric F layer it is of the order of 1 W/m. Such fields are easily obtained in ionospheric heating experiments allowing for radio-wave field swelling in the reflection region. In the vicinity of electron harmonics f_o≅nf_Be, the threshold field is increasing. For f_o<nf_Be with f_o≅nf_Be the instability does not develop because of the absence of plasma oscillations with a frequency that is close to the pump frequency (the latter also refers to the case f_o<2f_Be). The expressions obtained are generalized to the case in which the instability under consideration is excited by the field of an ordinary radio wave in the region of its quasilongitudinal propagation. We discuss the possibility of using the emergence of very short-wave plasma oscillations for explaining the experimentally observed phenomena. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 541–560, May, 1997.     

Thermal parametric turbulence in a plasma

A theory of thermal parametric instability (TPI) in an inhomogeneous magnetoplasma is developed. The threshold pump wave amplitude and increments of TPI are obtained. The spacial spectra of plasma waves and magnetic field aligned density perturbations are determined at the nonlinear stage of TPI, perturbation intensity dependence on pump energy is also analyzed. The theoretical results are applied to explain the ionospheric modification experiments.     

碰撞等离子体的非相干散射谱

给出了任意非麦克斯韦速度分布条件下,碰撞等离子体非相干散射谱的求解方法的一般表达式,并给出了谱计算中,所必需的两个复奇点积分的计算方法.计算了低电离层HF加热下功率谱,讨论了碰撞频率、非麦氏指数、电子密度、电子温度和离子温度对功率谱的影响.由于碰撞和非麦克斯韦因子的作用,原有的电离层参量和谱型特征的对应关系不再成立,这会对电离层参量的反演带来很大误差,必须对原有的理论模型予以修正. 关键词： 功率谱 非相干散射雷达 非麦克斯韦分布函数 碰撞