Simultaneous Observation of FUV Aurora with Precipitating Electrons on STSAT- 1

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Dec 2008

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM51B-1638

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0310 Airglow And Aurora, 7845 Particle Acceleration

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We present the results of far ultraviolet (FUV, 1350-1750 Å) auroral observations made by the Far- ultraviolet IMaging Spectrograph (FIMS) instrument on the Korean microsatellite STSAT-1. The instrument was capable of resolving spatial structures of a few kilometers with the spectral resolution of 2-3Å. The observations were carried out simultaneously with the measurement of precipitating electrons using an electrostatic analyzer (ESA, 100 eV-20 keV) and a solid state telescope (SST, 170 keV-360 keV) on board the same satellite. With a careful mapping of the field lines, we were able to correlate the particle spectrum to the corresponding FUV spectrum of the footprints of the FIMS image that varied significantly in fine scales. We divided the FIMS spectral band into the LBH long (LBHL, 1640-1715Å) and LBH short (LBHS, 1380- 1455Å) bands, and compared the electron energies with the intensities of LBHL and LBHS for the well- defined inverted-V structures. The result shows a strong correlation between the total LBH intensity and the energy flux measured by ESA while the peak energy itself does not correlate well with the LBH intensity. On the other hand, it was observed that the ratio of the LBHL intensity to that of LBHS increased significantly as the peak electron energy increased, primarily due to a smaller absorption by O2 at LBHL than at LBHS.

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