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Annales Geophysicae D region HF radar echoes associated with energetic particle precipitation and pulsating aurora
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Milan, Stephanie E. Hosokawa, Keisuke Yamagishi, Hisao Honary, Farideh |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Milan et al. (2001) identified a class of narrow, slow-moving HF radar backscatter echoes which originate between altitudes of 80 and 100 km, the ionospheric Dand lower E-regions. These echoes appeared to be associated with the occurrence of pulsating aurora, which are known to be created by energetic electrons capable of penetrating to D region altitudes. In this study we show that these echoes are observed in tandem with enhancements in cosmic noise absorption (auroral absorption), additional evidence that energetic (>30 keV) particle precipitation is responsible for generating the irregularities from which a radar can scatter. In addition, we show that the D region backscatter echoes occur predominantly in the post-midnight sector during substorm recovery phase, in common with auroral absorption events and pulsating aurora. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26213/1/art_948.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ablation Altitude Aurora Kinase A Backscatter (email) COSMIC Doppler effect Eighty Electrons Ephrin Type-B Receptor 1, human Hafnium Height Helicon Filter Instability Kiloelectronvolt Magnetic Fields Noise (radio) Organizing (structure) Plasma Active Pulse (signal processing) Radar Region-based memory management Shift JIS Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial electron density magnetometers |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |