Source of the dayside cusp aurora

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作者
Mende, S. B. [1 ]
Frey, H. U. [1 ,2 ]
Angelopoulos, V. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, IGPP, ESS, Los Angeles, CA USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
IMAGE-FUV; MAGNETOPAUSE; IONOSPHERE; EMISSIONS; BOUNDARY; RADAR;
D O I
10.1002/2016JA022657
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Monochromatic all-sky imagers at South Pole and other Antarctic stations of the Automatic Geophysical Observatory chain recorded the aurora in the region where the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellites crossed the dayside magnetopause. In several cases the magnetic field lines threading the satellites when mapped to the atmosphere were inside the imagers' field of view. From the THEMIS magnetic field and the plasma density measurements, we were able to locate the position of the magnetopause crossings and map it to the ionosphere using the Tsyganenko-96 field model. Field line mapping is reasonably accurate on the dayside subsolar region where the field is strong, almost dipolar even though compressed. From these coordinated observations, we were able to prove that the dayside cusp aurora of high 630nm brightness is on open field lines, and it is therefore direct precipitation from the magnetosheath. The cusp aurora contained significant highly structured N-2(+) 427.8 nm emission. The THEMIS measurements of the magnetosheath particle energy and density taken just outside the magnetopause compared to the intensity of the structured N-2(+) 427.8nm emissions showed that the precipitating magnetosheath particles had to be accelerated. The most likely electron acceleration mechanism is by dispersive Alfven waves propagating along the field line. Wave-accelerated suprathermal electrons were seen by FAST and DMSP. The 427.8nm wavelength channel also shows the presence of a lower latitude hard-electron precipitation zone originating inside the magnetosphere.
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页码:7728 / 7738
页数:11
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