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Slow contraction of flash aurora induced by an isolated chorus element ranging from lower-band to upper-band frequencies in the source region |
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| Author: | Ozaki, Mitsunori1; Yagitani, Satoshi1; Shiokawa, Kazuo2; |
| Organizations: |
1Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan 2Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan 3National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
4Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tachikawa, Japan
5Polar Environment Data Science Center, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tachikawa, Japan 6The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan 7Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan 8Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 2.5 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022120168735 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
American Geophysical Union,
2022
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| Publish Date: | 2022-12-01 |
| Description: |
AbstractFlash aurora driven by an isolated chorus element can be a useful ionospheric indicator for identifying the source wave properties via wave-particle interactions. Using ground observation and modeling approaches, here we report the temporal characteristics of flash aurora that depend on the chorus frequency width and the sweep rate. We found that the contraction time increases more than the expansion time in patchy auroral variations, due to the difference in the minimum electron energies resonated with the chorus wave packet away from the equatorial source to higher latitudes. Especially, the contraction time strongly depends on the higher-frequency chorus waves due to cyclotron resonance with lower-energy electrons. The model calculations support that the chorus element ranges from lower-band to upper-band frequencies with respect to half the gyrofrequency at the exact generation region. Our study provides the prompt (milliseconds) chorus-driven electron dynamics through the spatiotemporal characteristics of flash aurora in the ionosphere. see all
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| Series: |
Geophysical research letters |
| ISSN: | 0094-8276 |
| ISSN-E: | 1944-8007 |
| ISSN-L: | 0094-8276 |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Article number: | e2021GL097597 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2021gl097597 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1029/2021gl097597 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
115 Astronomy and space science |
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| Funding: |
This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI grants JP15H05747, JP16H06286, and JP20H02162. |
| Dataset Reference: |
The EMCCD data (https://doi.org/10.34515/DATA.GND-0013-0006-0207_v01) we used to support the findings of this study were obtained from a link “100 Hz All-Sky imager data” in the ERG Science Center operated by ISAS/JAXA and ISEE/Nagoya University (http://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data_info/ground.shtml.en). The EMCCD data release is partly supported by the IUGONET (Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork) project (http://www.iugonet.org/). The ray tracing model and the CER calculation are presented by Ozaki et al. (2021). |
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https://doi.org/10.34515/DATA.GND-0013-0006-0207_v01 http://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data_info/ground.shtml.en http://www.iugonet.org/ |
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| Copyright information: |
© 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |