Double bursts inside a poleward-moving auroral form in the cusp

作者：Taguchi S^*; Hosokawa K; Ogawa Y; Aoki T; Taguchi M

来源：Journal of Geophysical Research, 2012, 117: A12301.

DOI：10.1029/2012JA018150

Poleward-moving auroral forms (PMAF), the ionospheric signatures of flux transfer events (FTEs), are intermittent phenomena observed in the cusp during negative interplanetary magnetic field intervals. Previous meridian scanning photometer-based observations showed that the distribution of the separation time between successive PMAFs is maximum at similar to 3.5 min. In this paper we present initial results from a new high-sensitivity all-sky imager, which was set up at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway in October 2011. The 630.0-nm all-sky images taken with a time resolution of 4 s reveal that one of the PMAFs that occurred with such typical separation times on 29 December 2011 comprises two consecutive auroral bursts-the first occurring in the PMAF immediately after it was seen and the second, similar to 2 min later, following almost the same route. This observation provides evidence that one PMAF could reflect double FTEs-there is not always a one-to-one correspondence between FTEs and PMAFs. Reconnection on the dayside magnetopause would be modulated with a period of similar to 2 min during the course of transient reconnection. Citation: Taguchi, S., K. Hosokawa, Y. Ogawa, T. Aoki, and M. Taguchi (2012), Double bursts inside a poleward-moving auroral form in the cusp, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A12301, doi:10.1029/2012JA018150.

• 出版日期2012-12-5
• 单位中国极地研究中心