Polar observations of topside field-aligned <formula alphabet="latin">O+ flows and auroral forms

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Sep 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001jgr...10618969s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 106, Issue A9, p. 18969-18980

Physics

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Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Polar Cap Ionosphere, Magnetospheric Physics: Polar Cap Phenomena

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Measurements of thermal O+ ion densities, field-aligned velocities, and fluxes from the Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment (TIDE) on Polar obtained near 5000 km altitude over the Southern Hemisphere are compared with auroral images from the Ultraviolet Imager (UVI). Three passes were selected for analysis in this paper based on data availability from the TIDE and UVI instruments. Results indicate upward O+ flows in the cleft region but downward O+ flows in the polar cap region. Also, the O+ ion density follows a decreasing trend from the poleward side of the cusp region into the nightside aurora region. The magnitude of the downward O+ parallel velocities increases from dayside to nightside across the polar cap boundary. The upflows tend to occur over or near auroral forms, while the downflows are seen in relatively dark regions, such as the polar cap. These results are consistent with a cleft ion fountain source for the polar cap O+ ions. In the nightside polar cap, the results indicate a transition from downward to upflowing field-aligned O+ ions near boundaries of bright auroral arcs.

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