Electrophonic noises from meteors and dust acoustic modulational perturbations

Abstract

Abstract The article discusses dusty plasmas processes in the Earth’s ionosphere associated with the passages of meteoroids and the spread of the meteor tail. Mechanisms explaining the occurrence of electrophonic noises recorded simultaneously with the passage of meteor bodies are suggested for extremely low frequencies range. It is explained by modulational instability of electromagnetic waves from meteor associated with the dust acoustic mode with characteristic frequencies 0.03–60 Hz. As electromagnetic waves propagate in the dusty plasmas of the meteor tail or in the dusty ionospheric plasmas, dust acoustic waves are excited as a result of the development of modulational instability of electromagnetic waves at characteristic frequencies and as a result, the electromagnetic waves become modulated. At the surface, these perturbations can be converted into sound waves by means of receivers. The growth rates of modulational instability at which the modulational excitation of extremely low-frequency dust acoustic disturbances occur are calculated. The conditions of the development of modulational instability are given. The correlation between observations of ionospheric radio noises and passages of meteors is noticed. Observed data of electrophonic noises include discussing range of frequencies 0.03–60 Hz.