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- Andersson, L, et al.
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Electron signatures and Alfven waves
- 2002
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In: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 0148-0227 .- 2156-2202. ; 107:A9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- [1] We identify two distinct electron populations associated with Alfven waves in the Freja data set using the high time resolution state of the art electron detector. One of the populations, detected together with an Alfven wave, is field-aligned and can be seen as trapped within the wave. The other electron population is detected before the wave and consists of electrons which have left the wave at a point with a velocity higher than the local Alfven speed. In the paper, the electrons leaving wave are modeled for different density profiles and are compared with the observed data. Depending on the density profile, the model can produce the same energy-time and pitch angle-time dispersion that is observed in the Freja data. The conclusion of the paper is that the Alfven wave can explain the observed particle signatures. It is shown that the Alfven wave acceleration can create electron signatures similar to inverted-V structures. The density distribution along a flux tube has an important role in the type of particle signatures that can be detected at low altitudes.
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- Andre, M, et al.
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Ion energization mechanisms at 1700 km in the auroral region
- 1998
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In: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS. - 0148-0227. ; 103:A3, s. 4199-4222
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Observations obtained by the Freja satellite at altitudes around 1700 km in the high-latitude magnetosphere are used to study ion energization perpendicular to the geomagnetic field. Investigations of ions, electrons, plasma densities, electric and magnetic wave fields, and field-aligned currents are used to study O+ heating mechanisms. Three ion heating events are studied in detail, and 20 events are used in a detailed statistical study. More than 200 events are classified as belonging to one of four major types of ion heating and are ordered as a function of magnetic local time. The most common types of ion heating are associated with broadband low-frequency electric wave fields occurring at all local times. These waves cover frequencies from below one up to several hundred hertz and correspond to the most intense O+ energization. Heating by these waves at frequencies of the order of the O+ gyrofrequency at 25 Hz seems to be the important energization mechanism, causing O+ ion mean energies up to hundreds of eV. The broadband waves are associated with Alfven waves with frequencies up to at least a few hertz and with field-aligned currents. Other types of O+ energization events are less common. During these events the ions are heated by waves near the lower hybrid frequency or near half the proton gyrofrequency. These waves are generated by auroral electrons or in a few cases by precipitating ions.
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- Eliasson, L, et al.
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Observations of electron conics by the Viking satellite
- 1996
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In: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS. - : AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. - 0148-0227. ; 101:A6, s. 13225-13238
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Electron angular distributions peaked at oblique angles to the magnetic field, electron conics, are frequently found in the Viking data at all magnetic local times, but with a maximum in the dusk sector. Several types of electron conics have been observed
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- Makela, JS, et al.
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Evolution of mesoscale auroral cavities before substorm onset
- 1999
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In: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS. - : AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. - 0148-0227. ; 104:A8, s. 17201-17215
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We have used density measurements made by the Freja satellite to analyze the dynamical behavior of mesoscale auroral cavities at an altitude of 1700 km. Freja's orbital period of 109 min enabled a very large data set of cavity occurrences to be collected.
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- Marklund, Göran, et al.
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Observations of the electric field fine structure associated with the westward traveling surge and large-scale auroral spirals
- 1998
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In: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 0148-0227 .- 2156-2202. ; 103:A3, s. 4125-4144
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The characteristics of the fine scale electric field associated with the westward traveling surge and large-scale auroral spirals and surges are investigated using high-resolution electric field, magnetic field, particle and UV imager observations from four eveningside auroral oval crossings by the Freja satellite. Three of the crossings were associated with signatures of auroral substorms and one crossing went directly through the head of a surge close in time and space to substorm onset. Three passes were adjacent to auroral spiral formations, one poleward of and one equatorward of such forms and one through the multiple arc region near the front of an extended region of auroral activity. The ambient electric field was found to intensify in the direction toward the spiral head (or the center of the auroral activity region) over a region comparable to the size of the visible auroral forms. These results confirm previous findings that the spiral or surge head is associated with negative space charge and an intense upward field-aligned current. The fourth pass, directly through the surge head reveals a very complicated structure of the surge region. Narrowly structured, intense (up to 700 mV/m) and mostly converging electric fields associated with intense electron precipitation (of both high and medium energies) and balanced field-aligned currents (up to 30 μA/m2) are seen near the edge of the surge head and adjacent to auroral structures in the wake. These narrow regions are embedded within more extended regions of intense high-energy electron precipitation but very weak electric fields and field-aligned currents. According to some existing models of the surge, a pronounced westward electric field component and a southward polarisation electric field is expected within the entire high-conductivity region but evidence in support of this was not found in the data. Rather, these suggest that a significant part of the upward surge current is closed by distributed downward field-aligned currents from the near surroundings. The Freja electric field is typically seen to intensify at the edges of or in-between bright auroral structures and to decrease within the arcs similar to what is observed in the ionosphere. The surge electric field is, however, much more intense than previously observed or anticipated at these altitudes with characteristics rather similar to those observed in the auroral acceleration region. Since the particle data indicate that most of the acceleration takes place above Freja altitudes, it seems as if Freja traversed the lower part of the auroral acceleration region associated with the surge.
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- Mishin, V M, et al.
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A study of the CDAW 9C substorm of May 3, 1986, using magnetogram inversion technique 2, and a substorm scenario with two active phases
- 1997
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In: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS. - 0148-0227. ; 102:A9, s. 19845-19859
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- One of the CDAW 9C substorms is investigated in this paper using the database reported by Hones et al. and supplemented with magnetogram inversion technique (MIT) 2 data. These latter have provided information about the dynamics of the open tail magnetic Aux, current systems in the ionosphere, and the size and dynamics of the current wedge. We have identified the growth: expansion, and recovery phases of this substorm, with characteristics expected from a generally accepted scenario. However, specific signatures were observed in the interval (0919-0935) UTI i.e., between the growth and expansion phases, indicating the concurrent development of the substorm onset and corresponding instabilities in the innermost current sheet, and small-scale cross-tail current disruptions without the open tail reconnection. In addition to signatures of small-scale dipolarization, an increase of the open tail magnetic flux, and a current system of the type close to DP 2 were observed at (0919-0935) UT, which is more likely to suggest predominance of the tail-stretching process than magnetic collapse, This fact was interpreted in tel ms of a relevant simple model as a signature of the growth of the energy input from the solar wind which ensures the observable disturbance power. Hence the disturbance st (0919-0935) UT was more likely a driven one than an unloading one. The aforementioned signatures make it possible to identify the interval (0919-0935) UT as the ''phase of multiple onsets'' or: (equivalently) the ''first active phase,'' which was previously defined by Mishin [1991., and references therein] as one of the four standard phases of a typical substorm (in addition to the expansion phase). Thus the case study supports the substorm scenario with two active phases and, accordingly, with two different kinds of physics, This case study illustrates also the informativity of MIT 2 data and their ability to effectively complement the database traditionally used in substorm studies.
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- Norqvist, P, et al.
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Ion cyclotron heating in the dayside magnetosphere
- 1996
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In: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 0148-0227 .- 2156-2202. ; 101:A6, s. 13179-13193
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Observations of waves and particles obtained by the Freja satellite at altitudes around 1700 km in the dayside high-latitude magnetosphere are used to study ion energization. We find that ions, including O+, during several events of intense ion energization can be heated perpendicularly to the geomagnetic field to mean energies df up to about 20 eV via the process of cyclotron resonance by broadband waves around the ion gyrofrequencies. There is a good correlation between such broadband waves and the ion energization. The waves show no spectral features at the O+ gyrofrequency. The observed wave amplitudes are used as an input to a Monte Carlo simulation to obtain the observed ion energies. The waves around the ion gyrofrequencies may be generated either by field-aligned electrons or by nonlinear processes transferring energy from waves with lower frequencies. Not only the mean energy but also the shape of the particle distribution agrees with the cyclotron resonance heating mechanism. Other mechanisms, such as heating by lower hybrid waves or by a slowly varying electric field, are investigated but are found to be less important than cyclotron heating in this region of space.
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- Norqvist, P, et al.
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Ion cyclotron heating in the dayside magnetosphere
- 1996
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In: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS. - : AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. - 0148-0227. ; 101:A6, s. 13179-13193
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Observations of waves and particles obtained by the Freja satellite at altitudes around 1700 km in the dayside high-latitude magnetosphere are used to study ion energization. We find that ions, including O+, during several events of intense ion energizati
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- Yamauchi, M, et al.
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Dynamic response of the cusp morphology to the solar wind : A case study during passage of the solar wind plasma cloud on February 21, 1994
- 1996
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In: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 0148-0227 .- 2156-2202. ; 101:A11, s. 24675-24687
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- On February 21, 1994, both Geotail and LMP 8 satellites detected an interplanetary plasma cloud with intense interplanetary magnetic field (IMF>50 nT) and high dynamic pressure (> 50 nPa). During this interval the Freja satellite detected intense cusp-like plasma injections in four out of six dayside traversals. The first two traversals are carefully studied, During the first traversal the overall morphology of the ion injection is characterized by a ''multiple-injection'' signature over a wide magnetic local time (MLT) range, whereas it is characterized by a ''single-injection'' signature with narrow injection region at 8 MLT in the second traversal, The solar wind conditions were also quite different between these two periods: while both dynamic and magnetic pressures stayed high during entire period, the dynamic beta was much higher during the first Freja traversal than during the second traversal. Between these two traversals, the cusp plasma injection is detected by the Sondre Stromfjord radar. The radar signature of the plasma injection is identified using the satellite particle data when the satellite and the radar were conjugate (the satellite's footprint was in the radar's field of view.) The cusp position and dynamics observed by the Sondre Stromfjord radar again show a very good correlation to the solar wind condition, especially to the dynamic pressure. The result indicates the following. (1) During southward IMF the cusp morphology differs for conditions of high or low solar wind dynamic pressure. High dynamic pressure widens the cusp (with multiple injections), whereas high magnetic pressure narrows it (with single injection), The effect of the IMF on the cusp locations and morphology becomes dominant only when the dynamic pressure is not very high, (2) Such a morphological difference reflects dynamic pressure more than dynamic beta during southward IMF at least during times of high solar wind dynamic pressure. (3) The cusp morphology responds very quickly to the changes in the solar wind conditions.
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