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- Title
The Ellipticity of High Frequency Transionospheric Radio Waves.
- Authors
Pandey, Kuldeep; Kalafatoglu Eyiguler, E. Ceren; Hussey, Glenn C.; Danskin, Donald W.; Gillies, Robert G.; Yau, Andrew W.
- Abstract
The polarization state of transionospheric high frequency (HF) radio waves can be determined using the crossed-dipole antennas of the Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI) onboard Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) on the CAScade, Smallsat, and IOnospheric Polar Explorer/Swarm-E satellite. Coordinated experiments between ground radars and RRI showed that the radio waves have high ellipticity angles (elliptical or circular polarization) for propagation direction 6°-25° from the perpendicular direction to the local geomagnetic field. However, from magnetoionic theory and a typical assumption of roughly equal power in the O- and X-modes, radio waves can have high ellipticity angles only when the propagation direction is within 10° of perpendicularity. This investigation uses coordinated experiments between the Saskatoon SuperDARN radar and RRI. Magnetoionic modeling reveals that the relative strengths of the O- and X-modes for the HF radio waves transmitted from the Saskatoon SuperDARN change significantly poleward of the radar. Differences in the relative power between the two wave modes were found to significantly modify the polarization state of radio waves, and govern the sense of rotation of the wave. Even a relatively modest 2-5 dB power difference in the X-mode over the O-mode was found to result in unexpected observations of circularly polarized radio waves at aspect angles 6°-10° from perpendicular, and unexpected elliptically polarized waves observed at aspect angles more than 10° from perpendicular. Therefore, a combination of RRI observations and modeling, which accounts for relative differences in the O- and X-mode powers, was used here to better understand the unexpected observations of polarization states of transionospheric radio waves.
- Subjects
SHORTWAVE radio; POLARIZATION of radio waves; RADIO antennas; RADIO waves; CIRCULAR polarization; GEOMAGNETISM; RAYLEIGH waves
- Publication
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 2024, Vol 129, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2169-9380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2023JA032022