Low-altitude field-aligned electrons

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Sep 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.8445a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, Sept. 1, 1985, p. 8445-8460.

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Auroral Arcs, Electron Precipitation, Rocket Sounding, Electron Distribution, Electronic Spectra, Energy Spectra, Ring Currents, Spectrograms

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Earlier measurements of field-aligned electrons are reexamined in the light of the more recent and comprehensive data available from both rocket and satellite observations. It is found that: (1) field aligned electrons are associated with evening, midnight, and cusp auroras; (2) rocket data associate the field aligned electrons with active auroral forms and on the edges of moving discrete arcs, predominantly the leading edge; and (3) the spatial/temporal scale of the field-aligned events seen by satellites is a few seconds or tens of kilometers, while the rocket time scale extends from seconds to hundreds of seconds. Recent acceleration mechanisms involving turbulence are discussed.

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