STARE: Observations of a field-aligned line current

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26...21n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 21-24

Physics

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Ionosphere: Electric Fields, Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere, Magnetospheric Physics: Current Systems, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions

Scientific paper

For the first time a magnetospheric line current entering the ionosphere has been unambiguously observed. The observation was made with STARE (=Scandinavian Twin Auroral Radar Experiment), a ground based coherent radar system, which has been updated with modern computer technique, and recently taken into operation. A counter clockwise turning swirl of ionospheric electron drift velocities is synonymous with the presence of a line current flowing along the geomagnetic field lines into the ionosphere. A Flux Transfer Event on the magnetopause has been predicted to connect to the ionosphere via a line current.

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