Investigations of Mechanisms and Effects of Wave-Particle Interactions Using Data from Siple Station, Antarctica, VLF Wave-Injection Experiments

该奖项提供资金，用于分析研究人员从南极洲Siple站向地球大气层注入甚低频无线电波的活跃实验中获得的数据。测量所发现的丰富现象的接收器设在魁北克的Siple和Mistissini湖。此外，还在一些卫星上测量了甚低频波。SIPLE站现在已经关闭；然而，运行了近20年的SIPLE发射机提供了丰富的数据仓库，有待充分利用。这项研究的主要目的是研究人工发射的甚低频波与构成磁层(范艾伦)辐射带的俘获高能粒子的相互作用，特别是为了更好地了解甚低频相互作用如何被磁层放大，以及它们如何导致高能粒子沉淀到大气中，从而控制粒子数量。

This award provides funds for the analysis of data acquired by the investigators from an active experiment that injected very low frequency (VLF) radio waves in to the Earth's magentosphere from Siple Station, Antarctica. Receivers to measure the rich variety of phenomena discovered were located at Siple and at Lake Mistissini, Quebec. In addition, the VLF waves were also measured on a number of satellites. Siple Station has now been closed; however, the Siple transmitter, operated for nearly twenty years, provides a rich storehouse of data that remains to be fully exploited. The main thrust of this research is to study the interaction of the artificially launched VLF waves with the population of trapped energetic particles that make up the magnetospheric (Van Allen) radiation belts, and in particular to better understand how VLF interactions can be amplified by the magnetosphere and how they can cause the precipitation of energetic particles into the atmosphere and thereby control the particle population.