Cusp and LLBL as sources of the isolated dayside auroral feature during northward IMF

Details Cusp and LLBL as sources of the isolated dayside auroral feature during northward IMF Cusp and LLBL as sources of the isolated dayside auroral feature during northward IMF

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004jgra..10912222c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 109, Issue A12, CiteID A12222

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Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere (2704), Ionosphere: Particle Precipitation, Ionosphere: Plasma Convection, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers

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An intense dayside proton aurora was observed by Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration Far Ultra-Violet imager (IMAGE FUV) for an extensive period of northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) on 17 and 18 September 2000. This aurora partially coincided with the auroral oval and intruded farther poleward into the polar cap, and it showed longitudinal motions in response to IMF By variation. Intense magnetosheath-like electron and ion precipitations have been simultaneously detected by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) above the poleward portion of the high-latitude dayside aurora. They resemble the typical plasmas observed in the low-altitude cusp. However, less intense electrons and more energetic ions were detected over the equatorward part of the aurora. These plasmas are closer to the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) plasmas. Under strongly northward IMF, global ionospheric convection derived from Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) radar measurements showed a four-cell pattern with sunward convection in the middle of the dayside polar cap and the dayside aurora corresponded to two different convection cells. This result further supports two source regions for the aurora. The cusp proton aurora is on open magnetic field lines convecting sunward whereas the LLBL proton aurora is on closed field lines convecting antisunward. These IMAGE, DMSP, and SuperDARN observations reveal the structure and dynamics of the aurora and provide strong evidence for magnetic merging occurring at the high-latitude magnetopause poleward from the cusp. This merging process was very likely quasi-stationary.

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