Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999jastp..61..829t&link_type=abstract
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 61, Issue 11, p. 829-840.
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Scientific paper
The effect of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) By component on the dayside auroral oval from Viking UV measurements for March-November 1986 is studied. Observations of dayside auroras from Viking UV images for large positive (15 cases) and negative (22 cases) IMF By (|By|>4 nT), suggest that: (1) the intensity of dayside auroras tends to increase for negative IMF By and to decrease for positive By, so that negative IMF By conditions seem preferable for observations of dayside auroras; (2) for negative IMF By, the auroral oval tends to be narrow and continuous throughout the noon meridian without any noon gap or any strong undulation in the auroral distribution. For positive IMF By, a sharp decrease and spreading of auroral activity is frequently observed in the post-noon sector, a strong undulation in the poleward boundary of the auroral oval around noon, and the formation of auroral forms poleward of the oval; and (3) the observed features of dayside auroras are in reasonable agreement with the expected distribution of upward field-aligned currents associated with the IMF By in the noon sector.
Cogger Leroy L.
Lyatsky Wladislav
Murphree John S.
Trondsen Trond S.
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