ELF/VLF Observations in the Southern Pacific Ocean

该提案寻求后勤支持，以便在USAP的“纳撒尼尔·B·帕尔默”号船上安装和操作ELF/VLF接收器系统，以测量高频有源极光研究计划(HAARP)电离层加热器设施注入地球磁层的哨声“一跳”信号，该设施由海军研究办公室资助，部署在阿拉斯加的加科纳。在每年的南半球夏季穿越克赖斯特彻奇和麦克默多地铁站时，“纳撒尼尔·B·帕尔默”号会经过一个地理上与HAARP位置相连的区域。在这艘船穿越约300公里长的共轭区域(在新西兰东南约1000公里处)期间，阿拉斯加的HAARP设施将以最大功率运行，向磁层发射极低频/极低频波，然后这些波沿着地磁线传播到南半球，由于与磁层等离子体高能电子的回旋共振相互作用，沿波被放大。拟议计划的学术价值在于了解人工诱导的磁层波可能如何在安静和地磁扰动期间触发地球辐射带的粒子发射和损失过程的重要性。拟议活动产生的更广泛影响将包括更好地了解近地空间的高能电子辐射，这对在轨卫星上的电子设备是有害的，以及可能通过波-粒子相互作用缓解高能辐射的影响。

The proposal seeks the logistical support to install and operate an ELF/VLF receiver system on the USAP's ship "Nathaniel B. Palmer" for measuring whistler "one-hop" signals injected in the Earth's magnetosphere by the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) ionospheric heater facility, funded by the Office of Naval Research and deployed in Gakona Alaska. During its annual austral summer traverses between Christchurch and McMurdo Station, "Nathaniel B. Palmer" passes through a region that is geomagnetically conjugate to the HAARP location. During the ship's traverses through the ~300-km long conjugate area (at ~1000 km south-east of New Zealand), the HAARP facility in Alaska will operate at full-power, launching ELF/VLF waves into the magnetosphere, which then propagate along the geomagnetic field lines to the southern hemisphere, being amplified along their wave due to cyclotron resonance interactions with energetic electrons of the magnetospheric plasma. The intellectual merit of the proposed program lies in the importance of understanding how the artificially-induced magnetospheric waves might trigger particle emissions and loss processes from the Earth's radiation belts, both during quiet and geomagnetically disturbed periods. The broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity will include better understanding of energetic electron radiation in near-Earth space, which is detrimental to electronics on orbiting satellites, and the possible mitigation of effects of high-energy radiation via wave-particle interactions.