Probing afternoon detached aurora and high-latitude trough based on DMSP observations |
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Institution: | 1. School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang, China;2. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;3. Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radiowave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Paratunka, Russia |
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Abstract: | The present work displays the observations of an afternoon detached aurora along with ionospheric high-latitude trough. The event was observed by DMSP F17 on 19 September 2014. The afternoon detached aurora was isolated from the auroral oval and was located between 12:00–18:00 magnetic local time (MLT) and 65–70° geomagnetic latitude (MLAT). Particle observations indicate that the afternoon detached aurora was produced by energetic ring current ions with energies above ~10 keV where the main ion energy was likely to be above the upper limit of DMSP measurement (~30 keV). Magnetometer observation from the ground implies that the energetic ions were likely scattered by EMIC waves. Both the detached aurora and the auroral oval are found to be well inside the high-latitude trough with MLAT between ~64° and ~76° (68–80° GLAT). The auroral oval corresponds to a westward (sunward) plasma drift. It is expected that the westward drift transports the low-density plasma in the nightside toward the dayside, leading to the high-latitude trough formation. The afternoon detached aurora was well equatorward of the high-latitude trough, and the corresponding plasma drift was nearly zero. The plasma associated with the detached aurora is expected to be stagnant, and broaden the high-latitude trough equatorward. |
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Keywords: | Afternoon detached aurora High-latitude trough Plasma drift Subauroral proton precipitation |
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