Active Experiments in Space Plasmas

An overview of experimental observations made at Tromso during heating at frequencies near harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency (A.J. Stocker). First CUTLASS-EISCAT heating results (T.R. Robinson et al. ). The spectral features of low frequency noise stimulated by the SURA heating facility and detected by the intercosmos-24 satellite in the topside ionosphere (V.V. Vas'kov et al. ). Emissions stimulated in the upper ionosphere by the SURA heating facility (V.N. Oraevsky et al. ). The generation of ELF and VLF radio waves in the ionosphere using powerful HF transmitters (R. Barr). RF heating in a strong auroral electrojet (T.R. Robinson et al. ). Artificial periodic irregularities from the Tromso heating facility (M.T. Rietveld, N.P. Goncharov). Parametric excitation of high frequency plasma oscillations in the ionosphere by a powerful extraordinary radio wave (V.V. Vas'kov, N.A. Ryabova). The development of small-scale irregularities in the ionosphere disturbed by powerful oblique HF radio waves (A.M. Nasyrov et al. ). First results from the energetic particle instrument on the OEDIPUS-C sounding rocket (M.P. Gough et al. ). Electron flux scattering in strongly turbulent ionospheric plasma regions (N.V. Baranets et al. ). Waves generated in the vicinity of the Xenon plasma gun in the APEX-experiment (Yu. M. Mikailov et al. ). VLF plasma waves observed during the Xenon gas releases on the active satellite (Z. Klos et al. ). Observations of the beam-plasma interaction during the APEX artificial electron beam emission (L. Prech et al. ). SPREE measurements of wave-particle interactions generated by the electron guns on TSS-1 and TSS-1R (M.P. Gough et al. ). Ponderomotive lower hybrid wave growth in electric fields associated with electron beam injection and transverse ion acceleration (S.D. Bale et al. ). Payload charging in high altitude experiments with electron beam injection (G. Lizunov, Z. Zbyszynski). The influence of photosheath on the very low energy electrons during active potential control (H. Zhao et al. ). Medium-scale ionospheric wave processes during the CRRES barium releases (N.F. Blagoveshchenskaya et al. ). Dynamics of emission of optically thick barium clouds in near-earth space (S.S. Nickolaishvili et al. ). Gas dynamic and aeronomic phenomena in the ionosphere caused by artificial cloud releases (Yu. A. Romanovsky, A. Tcema). Trigger processes in the artificially modified auroral ionosphere (I. Grebnev et al. ). Simultaneous wave effects in the ionosphere and in an artificial ion cloud after its formation (S.A. Namazov et al. ). Plasma jet dynamics in the magnetosphere (A.I. Podgorny, I.M. Podgorny). Dynamics of high energy plasma jet in space: in situ experiment and laboratory simulation (B.G. Gavrilov et al. ). On the electric currents of an expanding plasma ball (V.I. Badin et al. ). Author index.