Streamer-like red line diffuse auroras driven by time domain structures and ECH waves associated with a plasma injection and braking ion flows

Created by MG96

External Public physics.space-ph astro-ph.EP physics.geo-ph physics.plasm-ph

Statistics

Citations
0
References
79
Last updated
Loading...
Authors

Yangyang Shen Xu Zhang Jun Liang Anton Artemyev Vassilis Angelopoulos Emma Spanswick Larry Lyons Yukitoshi Nishimura
Project Resources

Name Type Source Actions
ArXiv Paper Paper arXiv
Semantic Scholar Paper Semantic Scholar
Abstract

Auroral streamers are important meso-scale processes of dynamic magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, typically studied using imagers sensitive to energetic (>1 keV) electron precipitation, such as all-sky imagers (ASIs). This paper reports streamer-like red-line auroras, representing low-energy (<1 keV) precipitation, observed poleward of a black aurora and an auroral torch. These red-line auroras were associated with a magnetospheric electron injection and braking ion flows. Observations were made using the THEMIS spacecraft and ground-based imagers, including the ASI, REGO, and meridian scanning photometer (MSP) at Fort Smith. We identify plasma sheet electron pitch-angle scattering by time-domain structures (TDSs) and electron cyclotron harmonics (ECH) waves as the driver of these red-line auroras, because of (1) a strong correlation (~0.9) between observed red-line intensities and precipitating fluxes; (2) consistent red-line intensities from auroral transport code forward modeling, and (3) consistent precipitation characteristic energies from MSP optical inference and quasi-linear estimates.

Note:

No note available for this project.

No note available for this project.
Contact:

No contact available for this project.

No contact available for this project.