Correlations between solar wind parameters and auroral kilometric radiation intensity

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Oct 1981

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Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 8, Oct. 1981, p. 1087-1089.

Physics

Geophysics

39

Auroras, Kilometric Waves, Radiant Flux Density, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Correlation, Flow Velocity, Geophysics, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetosheath

Scientific paper

The relationship between solar wind properties and the influx of energy into the nightside auroral region as indicated by the intensity of auroral kilometric radiation is investigated. Smoothed Hawkeye satellite observations of auroral radiation at 178, 100 and 56.2 kHz for days 160 through 365 of 1974 are compared with solar wind data from the composite Solar Wind Plasma Data Set, most of which was supplied by the IMP-8 spacecraft. Correlations are made between smoothed daily averages of solar wind ion density, bulk flow speed, total IMF strength, electric field, solar wind speed in the southward direction, solar wind speed multiplied by total IMF strength, the substorm parameter epsilon and the Kp index. The greatest correlation is found between solar wind bulk flow speed and auroral radiation intensity, with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.78 for the 203 daily averages examined. A possible mechanism for the relationship may be related to the propagation into the nightside magnetosphere of low-frequency long-wavelength electrostatic waves produced in the magnetosheath by the solar wind.

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