The plasma wave environment of an auroral arc. II - ULF waves on an auroral arc boundary

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Auroral Arcs, Plasma Diagnostics, Plasma Waves, Space Plasmas, Electric Fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Polarization (Waves), Power Spectra, Rocket Sounding

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On March 9, 1978, a sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat, Alaska, at 2200 LT, made a four-component measurement of a 0.5 Hz hydromagnetic wave as the payload crossed the poleward boundary of a quiet homogeneous auroral arc. An energy flux of about 10 to the -6th W/sq m was observed propagating upward with a left-handed polarization within the arc, and a flux 6 times greater was observed propagating downward with a right-handed polarization on the arc boundary. The waves were identified as shear mode Alfven waves. Various models for the source of the free energy are discussed with the conclusion that the most likely production mechanism was either the electromagnetic or electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

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