Modeling of the lower ionospheric response and VLF signal modulation during a total solar eclipse using ionospheric chemistry and LWPC

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• 作者：Suman Chakraborty ; Sourav Palit ; Suman Ray…
• 关键词：Ionosphere ; D ; region ; VLF ; Solar eclipse response ; Obscuration function ; Ionospheric disturbances
• 刊名：Astrophysics and Space Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：361
• 期：2
• 全文大小：1,771 KB
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• 作者单位：Suman Chakraborty (1)
  Sourav Palit (1)
  Suman Ray (1)
  Sandip K. Chakrabarti (1) (2)
  
  1. Indian Centre for Space Physics, 43 Chalantika, Garia Station Road, Kolkata, 700084, India
  2. S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Salt lake, Kolkata, 700098, India
  
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Astronomy
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-946X

文摘

The variation in the solar Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) radiation flux by any measure is the most dominant natural source to produce perturbations or modulations in the ionospheric chemical and plasma properties. A solar eclipse, though a very rare phenomenon, is similarly bound to produce a significant short time effect on the local ionospheric properties. The influence of the ionizing solar flux reduction during a solar eclipse on the lower ionosphere or, more precisely, the D-region, can be studied with the observation of Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio wave signal modulation. The interpretation of such an effect on VLF signals requires a knowledge of the D-region ion chemistry, which is not well studied till date. Dominant parameters which govern the ion chemistry, such as the recombination coefficients, are poorly known. The occurrence of events such as a solar eclipse provides us with an excellent opportunity to investigate the accuracy of our knowledge of the chemical condition in this part of Earth’s atmosphere and the properties which control the ionospheric stability under such disturbances. In this paper, using existing knowledge of the lower ionospheric chemical and physical properties we carry out an interpretation of the effects obtained during the total solar eclipse of 22 of July 2009 on the VLF signal. Data obtained from a week long campaign conducted by the Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP) over the Indian subcontinent has been used for this purpose. Both positive and negative amplitude changes during the eclipse were observed along various receiver locations. In this paper, data for a propagation path between a Indian Navy VLF transmitter named VTX3 and a pair of receivers in India are used. We start from the observed solar flux during the eclipse and calculate the ionization during the whole time span over most of the influenced region in a range of height. We incorporate a D-region ion-chemistry model to find the equilibrium ion density over the region and employ the LWPC code to find the VLF signal amplitude. To tackle the uncertainty in the values of the recombination coefficients we explore a range of values in the chemical evolution model. We achieve two goals by this exercise: First, we have been able to reproduce the trends, if not the exact signal variation, of the VLF signal modulations during a solar eclipse at two different receiving stations with sufficient accuracy purely from theoretical modeling, and second our knowledge of some of the D-region ion-chemistry parameters is now improved.