Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsa44a..05l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SA44A-05
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2704] Magnetospheric Physics / Auroral Phenomena, [2772] Magnetospheric Physics / Plasma Waves And Instabilities, [7847] Space Plasma Physics / Radiation Processes
Scientific paper
Recently LaBelle and Anderson [2011] reported the first definitive observations of AKR at ground level, confirmed through simultaneous measurements on the Geotail spacecraft and at South Pole Station, Antarctica. The initial observations consisted of three examples recorded in 2004. An Antarctic observing site is critical for observing ground level AKR which is obscured by man-made broadcast signals at northern hemisphere locations. Examination of 2008 austral winter radio data from Antarctic Automatic Geophysical Observatories (AGOs) of the Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn) network and South Pole Station reveals 37 ground level AKR events on 23 different days, 30 of which are confirmed by correlation with AKR observed with the Geotail spacecraft. The location of the Geotail spacecraft appears to be a significant factor enabling coincident measurements. Six of the AKR events are detected at two or three ground-level observatories separated by approximately 500 km, suggesting that the events illuminate an area comparable to a 500-km diameter. For 14 events on ten nights, photometer and all-sky imager data from South Pole and AGOs were examined; in ten cases, locations of auroral arcs could be determined at the times of the events. In eight of those cases, the AKR was detected at observatories poleward of the auroral arcs, and in the other two cases the aurora was approximately overhead at the observatory where AKR was detected. These observations suggest that the AKR signals may be ducted to ground level along magnetic field lines rather than propagating directly from the AKR source region of approximately 5000 km altitude. Correlations between structures in the AKR and intensifications of auroral arcs are occasionally observed but are rare. The ground-level AKR events have a local time distribution similar to that of AKR observed from satellites, peaking in the pre-midnight to midnight sector. This data base of >30 events observed coincidentally at ground level and on the Geotail spacecraft, including several events detected at multiple ground stations, will provide a measurements of the ratio of the ground level intensity to that observed on the satellite, with the latter adjusted for distance. This ratio of intensities, not well-determined from the original three events [LaBelle and Anderson, 2011], places an important constraint on the generation mechanism. Reference: LaBelle, J., and R.R. Anderson (2011), Ground-level detection of Auroral Kilometric Radiation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L04104, doi:10.1029/2010GL046411.
Anderson Rachel
Frey Harald U.
Kojima Hedeyasu
Labelle James W.
Pasternak Sebastien
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