Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm51b1405h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM51B-1405
Physics
2704 Auroral Phenomena (2407), 2760 Plasma Convection (2463), 2788 Magnetic Storms And Substorms (7954), 2790 Substorms
Scientific paper
During sawtooth events, the auroral distribution is typically comprised of an active and dynamic double oval configuration. In association with each tooth, the double oval evolves in a repeatable manner in which a wide double-oval configuration gradually thins down in association with an expansion of the polar cap and stretching of the tail field lines. This is followed by a localized substorm-like brightening of the auroral distribution in the dusk to midnight sector on the lower branch of the double oval which subsequently expands rapidly poleward and azimuthally. A new expanded double oval configuration emerges from this expansion phase activity and the cycle repeats itself for the duration of the sawtooth event. This behavior is highly consistent with the Akasofu picture of substorm onset occurring deep within the closed field-line region on the equator-most arc. Due to the large separation between the poleward boundary and the onset region during these types of substorms, the interaction between the onset region and poleward boundary intensifications, auroral streamers, inclined arcs, torches and omega bands are more easily determined. Here, we show that: (1) Sawtooth injections can be produced by the copious production of auroral streamers, without a substorm onset; (2) Auroral streamers typically evolve into torches and omega bands rather than leading to onsets; (3) Equatorward-moving "inclined arcs" can feed into the onset region. The observations might be explained by the scale-size-dependent behavior of earthward-moving depleted flux tubes in the tail. In this hypothesis, streamers can penetrate rapidly toward the earth (via interchange) and mitigate the pressure crisis in the near-earth region, while the slower-moving inclined arcs map to large-scale depleted flux tubes that do not efficiently penetrate earthward and hence do not alleviate the pressure crisis in the pre-midnight sector.
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