TIMED/GUVI observation of solar illumination effect on auroral energy deposition

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作者
Liou, K. [1 ]
Zhang, Y. -L. [1 ]
Newell, P. T. [1 ]
Paxton, L. J. [1 ]
Carbary, J. F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Laurel, MD 20723 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
PEDERSEN CONDUCTANCE; PITCH-ANGLE; ARCS; IONOSPHERE; DISCRETE; MAGNETOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION; ACCELERATION; DEPENDENCE; SUNLIGHT;
D O I
10.1029/2010JA016402
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It has been established that the local nighttime aurora is more intense in winter or darkness than in summer or sunlight. Here we expand previous work to confirm empirical relationships between energy flux and average energy of aurora and solar zenith angle (SZA) and ionospheric photoconductance by analyzing similar to 6 years (2002-2007) of FUV auroral images acquired from the Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) on board NASA's Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite. The total number of auroral images, north and south combined, is 55,675. The B3C auroral transport code is used to extract auroral parameters, assuming pure electron precipitation. It is found that the mean energy and energy flux carried by precipitating electrons (>0.25 erg/cm(2) s) increase monotonically with SZA for SZA less than similar to 108 degrees (corresponding to an EUV shadow height of similar to 430 km). The rate of increase is most pronounced in the premidnight sector, where the energy flux rate is similar to 0.04 erg/cm(2) s/deg and the mean energy rate is similar to 0.02 keV/deg. The auroral power is anticorrelated with the ionospheric Pedersen photoconductance for all local times, with the steepest drop (-0.2 gw/mho) in the midnight sector. These results are stronger than those for the simple cases of "sunlight" versus "darkness" and/or "summer" versus "winter" used in previous work for the solar illumination effect. While the present result cannot distinguish known mechanisms, we suggest that more than one mechanism is responsible for the observed sunlight effect.
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