Pulsating dayside aurora in relation to ion upflow events during a northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) dominated by a strongly negative IMF BY

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Mar 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jgra..11203301l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A3, CiteID A03301

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Magnetospheric Physics: Cusp, Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena (2407), Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions (2431), Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Ionosphere: Electric Fields (2712)

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We report a study of ion upflow as seen by the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) Svalbard Radar (ESR), initiated by a rotation from interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) BZ negative to IMF BZ positive, under the influence of a strongly negative IMF BY. We combine ground-based instruments, such as meridian scanning photometers (MSP), all-sky imager (ASI) data, and radars, with solar wind data from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft and low-altitude particle precipitation data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-13 spacecraft as well as wave data from the Svalbard EISCAT Rocket Study of Ion Outflows (SERSIO) sounding rocket flight. Following a coronal mass ejection, the solar wind data showed high dynamic pressures (up to 20 n Pa) and a strongly varying IMF. The observed ion upflow was seen to be of a pulsed nature and sustained by pulsed soft electron precipitation. The data findings indicated pulsed lobe reconnection as the mechanism funneling energy and momentum down to the northern polar hemisphere.

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