The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition

Olga Lebed; Sergey Pilgaev; Aleksey Larchenko; Nataly Blagoveshchenskaya; Alexey Kalishin; Tatiana Borisova; Oleg Stribny; Michael Filatov; Marina Kuznetsova; Aleksandr Nikitenko; Elena Beketova; Yuriy Fedorenko

doi:10.12737/szf-121202610

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THE FIRST RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS OF AURORAL HISS DURING THE «NORTH POLE–41» EXPEDITION The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition

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Published in Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika · Pages 95–106 · Rubric: Results of current research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-121202610 · EDN: YYBRTE

Received: 09.06.2025 Accepted: 11.11.2025 Published: 25.03.2026

Authors

Olga Lebed

ORCID

Sergey Pilgaev

Aleksey Larchenko

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Nataly Blagoveshchenskaya

ORCID

Alexey Kalishin

ORCID

Tatiana Borisova

ORCID

Oleg Stribny

Michael Filatov

Marina Kuznetsova

Aleksandr Nikitenko

ORCID ResearcherID

Elena Beketova

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Yuriy Fedorenko

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Olga Lebed

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Polar Geophysical Institute Research Associate · Russian Federation · Apatity

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Sergey Pilgaev

Polar Geophysical Institute Russian Federation · Apatity

Aleksey Larchenko

Polar Geophysical Institute junior researcher · Russian Federation · Apatity

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Nataly Blagoveshchenskaya

Academic degree: doctor of physical and mathematical sciences

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Russian Federation · St. Petersburg

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Alexey Kalishin

Academic degree: candidate of technical sciences

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Russian Federation · St. Petersburg

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Tatiana Borisova

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Russian Federation · St. Petersburg

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Oleg Stribny

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute St Petersburg

Michael Filatov

Polar Geophysical Institute Murmansk

Marina Kuznetsova

Polar Geophysical Institute Murmansk

Aleksandr Nikitenko

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Polar Geophysical Institute Russian Federation · Apatity

ORCID ResearcherID

Elena Beketova

Apatity Branch of Murmansk Arctic University Russian Federation · Apatity

ORCID

Yuriy Fedorenko

Polar Geophysical Institute Russian Federation · Apatity

ORCID

ABSTRACT

During the North Pole–41 expedition, three components of the VLF electromagnetic field were simultaneously measured on a drifting ice-resistant platform and at the Lovozero and Barentsburg observatories. We consider three VLF events that occurred in magnetically quiet time. During two of them (the events on January 24, 2023 and March 12, 2024), auroral hiss bursts were recorded at three stations located in the auroral and circumpolar regions and spaced up to 2.600 km apart. The spectral and temporal characteristics of the bursts at all the stations were almost the same. The fact that hiss was recorded with the same properties at such large distances can be explained under the assumption of a homogeneous flow of auroral electrons with energies from 0.1 to 10 keV throughout the precipitation area, which generate quasi-electrostatic waves at altitudes 10–20 thousand km, along with the simultaneous presence of small-scale ionospheric irregularities in the vicinity of all three stations, where these waves are scattered into the propagation cone to the Earth surface. We examine the case of hiss recording (the January 25, 2023 event) demonstrating the locality of the hiss recording area during one day — a hiss burst is first observed at one station, then at another. This is probably due to the appearance/disappearance of local areas of small-scale irregularities, where quasi-electrostatic waves are scattered providing propagation to the Earth surface.

KEYWORDS

auroral hiss, ionosphere, VLF wave

Funding

The expedition was funded within the framework of the Government assignment from AARI

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Lebed O. M., Pilgaev S. V., Larchenko A. V., Blagoveshchenskaya N. F., Kalishin A. S., Borisova T. D., Stribny O. Y., Filatov M. V., Kuznetsova M. V., Nikitenko A. S., Beketova E. B., Fedorenko Y. V. The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition // Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika. 2026. no. 1. pp. 95-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-121202610. EDN: YYBRTE. (Date of access 12.09.2026).

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Olga Lebed, Pilgaev S. V., Larchenko A. V., Blagoveshchenskaya N. F., Kalishin A. S., Borisova T. D., Stribny O. Y., Filatov M. V., Kuznetsova M. V., Nikitenko A. S., Beketova E. B., Fedorenko Y. V.. "The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition." Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika 12.1 (2026): 95-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-121202610. EDN: YYBRTE.

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Lebed O. M., Pilgaev S. V., Larchenko A. V., Blagoveshchenskaya N. F., Kalishin A. S., Borisova T. D., Stribny O. Y., Filatov M. V., Kuznetsova M. V., Nikitenko A. S., Beketova E. B., Fedorenko Y. V. (2026). The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition. Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika, 12(1), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-121202610 EDN: YYBRTE.

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Olga Lebed, Pilgaev S. V., Larchenko A. V., Blagoveshchenskaya N. F., Kalishin A. S., Borisova T. D., Stribny O. Y., Filatov M. V., Kuznetsova M. V., Nikitenko A. S., Beketova E. B., Fedorenko Y. V.. "The first results of observations of auroral hiss during the «North Pole–41» expedition." Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika 12, no. 1 (2026): 95-106. https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-121202610. EDN: YYBRTE.

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