Intensification of preexisting auroral arc at substorm expansion phase onset: Wave-like disruption during the first tens of seconds

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3517s19l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 17, CiteID L17S19

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Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena (2407), Magnetospheric Physics: Substorms, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2471)

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With the deployment of the all-sky imager array of the THEMIS mission, we were able to construct a preliminary database of auroral substorm expansion phase onsets, from which we have established a number of common features characterizing the first tens of seconds of the substorm auroral intensification. We find that the intensification occurs within ~10 sec over an arc segment extending approximately 1 h MLT and featuring wave-like formations distributed in longitude. The longitudinal wave number ranges between 100 and 300 such that the wavelength is comparable to the ion gyroradius in the central plasma sheet. The scale the intensification is about 10-30 sec. This study casts important observational constraints on substorm onset theories.

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