Conjugate high-intensity energetic electron precipitation at high latitude

Details Conjugate high-intensity energetic electron precipitation at high latitude Conjugate high-intensity energetic electron precipitation at high latitude

Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003angeo..21.1443c&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, vol. 21, Issue 7, pp.1443-1455

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On 6 August 1998 an intense precipitation event occurring at high latitude in the evening sector was observed by X-ray and far-ultraviolet imagers on board the Polar satellite and by several ground-based instruments. The precipitation region was centred at approximately 19:00 MLT at 74° MLAT (at an L-shell of about 13). The event started at 22:59 UT and lasted about 10 minutes. It happened during the late expansion phase of a substorm after two hours of strongly southward IMF. Imaging riometers at geomagnetically conjugate sites recorded strong absorption levels which exceeded 7 dB at 38 MHz in a transient and localized intensification occurring within a poleward moving arc-like feature. The temporal and spatial similarities between the recordings from the two conjugate regions are remarkable. The arc-like precipitation region progressed poleward with a velocity of 1.5 km/s. Ground magnetometers co-located with the imaging riometers observed disturbances consistent with poleward moving westward currents. In X-ray and riometer images which are sensitive only to energetic electrons (above 5 10 keV) the event seems isolated, but in UV images the event is seen to occur on the poleward edge of the rapidly poleward expanding evening side aurora. The energy spectrum of precipitating electrons was subject to a temporary hardening which peaked at a mean energy of about 20 keV when the event was at its most intense at 23:02 UT. The event is likely to have been caused by an accelerating mechanism at some height above the ionosphere or by an earthward flow burst in the magnetotail, or possibly both.

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