An Intense Wave/Particle Event in the Auroral Ionosphere

Authors

A. D. Johnstone, University College London
Jan Josef Sojka, Utah State UniversityFollow
W. Gibbons, University of Sheffield
B. K. Madahar, University of Lancaster
L.J. C. Woolliscroft, University of Sheffield

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Geophysical Research Letters

Volume

8

Issue

4

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Publication Date

1981

First Page

389

Last Page

392

Abstract

An intense burst of VLF waves, at frequencies just above the local proton gyrofrequency, was observed shortly after each of two intense bursts of field‐aligned suprathermal electrons (E < 250eV) by instruments carried on a sounding rocket flown in diffuse aurora. If the two phenomena are associated with each other, the implication is that the electron acceleration occurred nearby, in a relatively small volume.

Comments

Originally published by the American Geophysical Union. Note: This article appears in Geophysical Research Letters.

Recommended Citation

Johnstone, A. D., J. J. Sojka, W. Gibbons, B. K. Madahar, and L. J. C. Woolliscroft (1981), An intense wave/particle event in the auroral ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 8(4), 389–392, doi:10.1029/GL008i004p00389.