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The Magnetic and Optical Signature of a Pg Pulsation

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Planetary and Space Science

Volume

38

Issue

11

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

11-1990

First Page

1443

Last Page

1456

Abstract

A giant pulsation (Pg), observed on two magnetometer arrays in Northern Europe, has been analysed. The integrated video records from an all-sky TV camera that had been recording pulsating aurora concurrently, had an identical periodicity to the Pg. Complex demodulation analysis of the event has yielded the amplitude, phase and polarization characteristics of the wave packet. The dominant East-West (D) component wave signature in amplitude and phase suggests that this Pg has guided poloidal mode characteristics. On the basis of equatorial mass density calculations it is shown that the Pg is most likely to be a second harmonic oscillation. The bounce resonance instability with 17 keV protons is discussed as being a possible candidate for the generation of the Pg. The mechanism of Coroniti and Kennel (1970, J. geophys. Res. 75, 1279) is discussed as being the most likely mechanism for the generation of the pulsating aurora seen on this night.

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Originally Published by Elsevier in Planetary and Space Science http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003206339090119B

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https://doi.org/10.1016/0032-0633(90)90119-B

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