Mar 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.3177f&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, March 1, 1986, p. 3177-3224.
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Auroras, Dynamics Explorer 1 Satellite, Dynamics Explorer 2 Satellite, Electric Fields, Plasma Spectra, Satellite Imagery, Space Plasmas, Evening, Field Aligned Currents, Helium Ions, Hydrogen Ions, Morning, Oxygen Ions, Polar Caps
Scientific paper
A comprehensive review is presented of the characteristics of theta aurora as revealed from four imaging efforts with the DE 1 and 2 satellites. The theta aurora consists of an auroral oval with a sun-aligned arc extending from the dayside to the nightside sectors of the oval. The DE 1 spacecraft provided high altitude simultaneous measurements of the electric and magnetic fields and plasma and the DE 2 collected equivalent low altitude data on the four events. The plasma was found to convect sunward when the transpolar arc appeared, while the convection was antisunward in other regions over the polar cap. The arc plasmas featured field-aligned electron acceleration into the polar atmosphere and field-aligned current sheets, both of which were sparse over the rest of the polar cap. The ions originated in the ionosphere and the solar wind; ions over the rest of the polar cap mainly arrived from the magnetosphere. Further discussions are provided of the dominant electrons and ions and the associated flow directions into and out of the various regions of the pole, similarities between the transpolar arc and the auroral oval, and interactions between the ionosphere and the auroral phenomena.
Burch James. L.
Chappell Charles R.
Craven John D.
David Winningham J.
Frank Louis A.
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