2011年7月
Ground-based multispectral high-speed imaging of flickering aurora
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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- 巻
- 38
- 号
- 14
- 開始ページ
- 1
- 終了ページ
- 4
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1029/2011GL048317
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
It has been suggested that dispersive Alfven waves (DAWs) are capable of accelerating electrons via Landau resonance, and the interference of DAWs plays an essential role to create flickering auroral patterns. Here we show evidence that the leading front of a typical interference pattern is more energetic than the trailing part, based on ground-based high-speed imaging observations at wavelengths of 670.5 nm and 844.6 nm, which are sensitive to relatively hard and soft electrons, respectively. The fine spatial resolution of 9.5 deg field-of-view at magnetic zenith and the 100 Hz sampling rate of electron multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) enabled us to resolve the spatiotemporal variation of the flickering aurora. It is found that there is only 10 ms time delay with 0.5 km spatial shift on average in the obtained flickering patterns at two wavelengths. The time delay and spatial shift can be comprehensively explained by the traveling inhomogeneous interference pattern of DAWs, probably associated with the Landau damping and/or time-of-flight effect, which is only detectable using the highest resolved temporal and spatial observations of flickering aurora. Citation: Kataoka, R., Y. Miyoshi, T. Sakanoi, A. Yaegashi, Y. Ebihara, and K. Shiokawa (2011), Ground-based multispectral high-speed imaging of flickering aurora, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L14106, doi:10.1029/2011GL048317.
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- DOI : 10.1029/2011GL048317
- ISSN : 0094-8276
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000293131900005