{"title":"Ion activity in quasi-neutral current sheets and discharge plasma in crossed electric and magnetic fields","authors":"Nikolay Strokin","doi":"10.12737/szf-101202402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-101202402","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a brief review, a classification is made and information is provided about four experimentally discovered plasma effects, where unexpected behavior of the ionic component appeared and for which there is no unambiguous interpretation. 1. Ions with the highest energies for a quasi-neutral current sheet were recorded at the O-point (island) with the direction of their movement opposite to the electric field at the X-point. 2. In a self-sustaining discharge in crossed electric and magnetic fields (E×B discharge), a large number of ions (not the tails of the distribution function) with energies significantly exceeding the energies equivalent to the discharge voltage are generated. This occurs in a certain range of pressures of the plasma-forming gas and magnetic fields. 3. The discovered region of effective ionization — the “anode layer”, with increasing pressure, moves abruptly from one plasma region to another, which is accompanied by a jump in the ion density up to 16 times. An increase in the magnetic field induction causes, on the contrary, the “anode layer” to jump in the opposite direction with the ion density decreasing 3–4 times. 4. Ion distribution functions in the E×B discharge contain isomagnetic density jumps with a relative amplitude from ~30 to 80 % of the total current at the released energy. Taking into account the “anomalous” behavior of ions in the plasma of quasi-neutral current sheets and discharges in crossed electric and magnetic fields will provide further insight into the processes in space plasma, the physics of coronal heating, and the formation of the solar wind.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"102 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140380966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observational characteristics of oscillations and waves in and around sunspots. Difficulties in observing and interpreting","authors":"N. Kobanov, A. Chelpanov","doi":"10.12737/szf-101202401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-101202401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes the body of work that we have done over the years on the oscillation processes in sunspots, including their umbra, penumbra, and close vicinity. The study analyzes a number of aspects that impede adequate determining of some characteristics of propagating oscillations and lead to misinterpretation. Using running penumbral waves as an example, we show that their horizontal propagation with decreasing frequency is delusive. The effect is due to different oscillations propagating along magnetic field lines with gradually increasing inclination. This also applies to the three-minute oscillations in the sunspot umbral chromosphere. The change in the inclination of the strips in the half-tone space-time diagrams, which are employed to determine the oscillation propagation velocities along coronal loops, is caused by the projection effect as opposed to real changes in the velocity. We propose to use flare modulation of the natural oscillations of the medium to eliminate the uncertainties that arise while measuring the phase differences between signals of the same parameters, which is employed for estimating wave propagation velocities in the solar atmosphere.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"122 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140380876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Korobtsev, M. Mishina, Yurii Karavaev, Maxim Eselevich, V. Goryashin
{"title":"Photometrical observations and shape modeling of space debris in medium Earth orbits","authors":"I. Korobtsev, M. Mishina, Yurii Karavaev, Maxim Eselevich, V. Goryashin","doi":"10.12737/szf-101202410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-101202410","url":null,"abstract":"The circular medium Earth orbits with a period of about half a day in the inclination range from 50° to 70° are used by various global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GLONASS, GPS, Beidou, Galileo. GNSS operating orbits are one of the important areas in near-Earth space. The information about the space debris (SD) existing in this region and its characteristics is important for risk assessments and mitigation. We report the results of photometrical observations of SD objects in the vicinity of GNSS orbits obtained with the 1.6-meter AZT-33IK telescope of ISTP SB RAS Sayan Solar Observatory in 2018–2023. We show how SD objects existing in this region are distributed relative to GNSS objects. We derive time and phase dependences of the apparent brightness of all measured SD objects. Folded light curves are constructed, rotation periods and their dynamics are determined. The results of modeling the light curve inherent for several SD objects from the GNSS orbital are presented. We suggest a possible space object shape and parameters of proper rotation, which correspond to the observed light curve.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"106 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140380612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Registration of the atmospheric effect of the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption","authors":"Aleksandr Sorokin, Vasiliy Dobrynin","doi":"10.12737/szf-101202408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-101202408","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results of recording of acoustic waves, caused by the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, in Eastern Siberia at a distance of about 11230 km from the eruption. The received acoustic signal is interpreted as a set of atmospheric waves in a wide range of oscillations. The structure of the signal is similar to signals from the previously known powerful sources: the thermonuclear explosion on Novaya Zemlya in 1961 and the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite in 1908. The acoustic signal was preceded by three trains of low-frequency damped oscillations. We assume that these three trains of oscillations are associated with three important stages in the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption: 1) destruction of Tonga island and formation of an underwater caldera; 2) release of hot magma from the caldera to the ocean surface and release of a large volume of superheated steam into the atmosphere 3) formation of a layered structure from a mixture of superheated steam, ash, and tephra on the ocean surface and formation of an eruptive convective column. Successive phases of the eruption might have contributed to the excitation of acoustic vibrations in a wide range of periods including Lamb waves, internal gravity waves (IGW), and infrasound. We compare the structure of the acoustic signal received in Siberia at a distance of more than 11000 km from the volcano and that of the acoustic signal recorded in Alaska at a distance of more than 9300 km. Using the solution of the linearized Korteweg — de Vries equation, we estimate the energy released during the volcanic eruption.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"107 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140379719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viktor Getmanov, Alexei Gvishiani, Anatoly Soloviev, Konstantin Zajtsev, Maksim Dunaev, Eduard Ehlakov
{"title":"Recognition of geomagnetic storms from time series of matrix observations with the muon hodoscope URAGAN using neural networks of deep learning","authors":"Viktor Getmanov, Alexei Gvishiani, Anatoly Soloviev, Konstantin Zajtsev, Maksim Dunaev, Eduard Ehlakov","doi":"10.12737/szf-101202411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-101202411","url":null,"abstract":"We solve the problem of recognizing geomagnetic storms from matrix time series of observations with the URAGAN muon hodoscope, using deep learning neural networks. A variant of the neural network software module is selected and its parameters are determined. Geomagnetic storms are recognized using binary classification procedures; a decision-making rule is formed. We estimate probabilities of correct and false recognitions. The recognition of geomagnetic storms is experimentally studied; for the assigned Dst threshold Yᴅ₀=–45 nT we obtain acceptable probabilities of correct and false recognitions, which amount to β=0.8212 and α=0.0047. We confirm the effectiveness and prospects of the proposed neural network approach.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"89 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isolated substorms according to magnetic measurements at Tixie during minimum solar activity","authors":"Dmitry Baishev, Georgy Makarov","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202310","url":null,"abstract":"A catalog of isolated substorms in 2016–2020 has been compiled from data on the H component of the geomagnetic field, obtained at Tixie. From the catalog data, it has been found that during this period changes in the number of substorms and the number of sunspots are well approximated by quadratic functions with minima at the end of 2017 and in the middle of 2019 respectively; during the year, disturbances more often occurred during solstice; within 24 hours, substorms more often occurred at local midnight. The intensity and duration of substorm disturbances, the duration of their expansion phase do not show a noticeable dependence on the time of occurrence; however, from average values of these parameters in hourly ranges, it has been found that the intensity takes lower values around 0–3 MLT; in the midnight sector, the duration of disturbances and the duration of their expansion phase are shorter than those in the dawn sector. Compared to the data from mid-latitude stations [Chu et al., 2015], the average duration of substorms and the duration of their expansion phase are longer.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"1 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlation analysis of solar flux absolute measurements at 161 and 245 MHz","authors":"A. Setov, Dmitriy Kushnarev","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202306","url":null,"abstract":"Solar emission in meter waves originates from upper layers of the solar corona. We present absolute measurements of solar flux from Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar (161 MHz frequency) and Learmonth Observatory (245 MHz frequency). We perform correlation analysis to investigate the relation between solar flux values at different frequencies. Background emission of the quiet Sun is within the expected limits. We examine the behavior of background and slowly-varying emission components during a solar cycle. By comparing the Pearson correlation coefficient with the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, we have found that the dependence of the meter flux on the F10.7 index is non-linear. The correlation between solar flux measurements at 161 and 245 MHz appeared to be lower than that with the F10.7 index. Analysis of daily correlation and autocorrelation shows a diurnal variation that introduces an error into the measurements.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"104 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138958746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bright ultraviolet knots as possible sources of coherent microwave radiation","authors":"N. Meshalkina, A. Altyntsev","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202302","url":null,"abstract":"A distinctive feature of the September 6, 2012 event was that sources of narrow-band (2–4 GHz) sub-second pulses (SSP) were observed in small areas of flare loops with so-called bright ultraviolet knots with high plasma density up to 10¹¹ cm⁻³. Time profiles of hard X-rays of the flare, although similar to microwave light curves, do not have structures corresponding to SSP. Analysis of microwave, X-ray, and ultraviolet data has shown that the observable pulses of microwave radiation with a narrow spectral band are coherent in nature and are generated by electrons with energies of several tens of kiloelectronvolt in bright knots at a double plasma frequency. The results of the observations suggest that the appearance of bright knots is associated with local processes of energy release due to interaction of flare loops.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"118 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138958404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir Kurkin, N. Ilyin, M. Penzin, S. Ponomarchuk, Vitaliy Khakhinov
{"title":"HF radio channel modeling by a waveguide approach","authors":"Vladimir Kurkin, N. Ilyin, M. Penzin, S. Ponomarchuk, Vitaliy Khakhinov","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202311","url":null,"abstract":"We present a modified method of HF radio channel modeling based on a waveguide approach. The waveguide approach represents the electromagnetic field of radiation inside the Earth—ionosphere waveguide as an eigenfunction series of a radial boundary problem with impedance conditions on the Earth surface and radiation conditions at infinity. The transfer function of the radio channel is represented as a series of products of angular-operator Green functions, excitation coefficients, and coefficients for receiving individual normal modes. We have obtained a solution of the boundary value problem of determining the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the radial operator. The solution can be applied to the frequency range below the ionospheric F-layer critical frequency. We examine algorithms for calculating distance-frequency, frequency-angular, and amplitude characteristics of signals by analyzing and numerically summarizing the series in terms of strongly damped normal modes.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139168732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivan Belov, Anatoly Soloviev, V. Pilipenko, Mikhail Dobrovolskiy, Shamil Bogoutdinov, Kirill Kalinkin
{"title":"Online system for analyzing currents in the upper ionosphere according to Swarm satellite data","authors":"Ivan Belov, Anatoly Soloviev, V. Pilipenko, Mikhail Dobrovolskiy, Shamil Bogoutdinov, Kirill Kalinkin","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202314","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the TeslaSwarm online system [http://aleph.gcras.ru/teslaswarm] for visualizing field-aligned currents in the upper ionosphere, using data from Swarm low-orbit satellites. The system provides researchers with a simple and convenient tool for event selection and detailed analysis of currents and electromagnetic fields in the upper ionosphere. The system user can select satellite passages over a given region, visualize the geomagnetic field structure and field-aligned currents, compare the pattern of field-aligned currents with the auroral particle precipitation map, using the OVATION-Prime model, and save the selected parameters in a file in text format. We demonstrate advantages of the developed system over its foreign analogues. In practice, the collection and pre-processing of raw data for experiments make up about 80 % of all work with data. The proposed online system largely saves the user from the most time-consuming work of choosing the required satellite passage segments and calculating the characteristics of interest from raw measurements.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"122 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139169627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}