Statistical X ray auroral emissions-PIXIE observations

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Jun 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.1565p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 11, p. 1565-1568

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Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic Particles, Precipitating, Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Ionosphere: Particle Precipitation

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The Polar Ionospheric X ray Imaging Experiment (PIXIE) on board the NASA/GGS POLAR spacecraft has been making observations of X rays emitted simultaneously over the entire auroral zone since March, 1996. PIXIE remotely senses the bremsstrahlung produced by the loss of multi-keV electrons from the magnetosphere into the ionosphere. In this study we examine twenty-six months (April 1996-July 1998) of X ray observations of the northern auroral region from the PIXIE instrument. X ray flux is obtained from the PIXIE observations, which allows us to produce for the first time synoptic auroral maps representing the precipitation of energetic electrons, as a function of geomagnetic activity.

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