Dynamic properties of throat aurora revealed by simultaneous ground and satellite observations

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• Main Authors: Chen, Xiangcai, Han, Desheng, Lorentzen, Dag Arne, Oksavik, Kjellmar, Moen, Jøran Idar, Baddeley, Lisa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geopgysical Union (AGU) 2017
• Subjects: Svalbard; The Throat
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/63194; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-65747; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023033

Throat aurora is defined as south-north aligned auroral arcs equatorward of the dayside cusp aurora and was suggested to be the results of cold magnetospheric plasma interaction with magnetopause reconnection, but its observational properties have not yet been well established. In this paper we care...