Analysis of FUV auroras by high energy electron precipitation

  • Lee, Chi-Na (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Jin (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Min, Kyung-Wook (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Parks, G.K. (Space Sciences Lab., University of California) ;
  • Fillingim, M.O. (Space Sciences Lab., University of California) ;
  • Cho, Kyung-Suk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Park, Young-Deuk ;
  • Han, W. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Edelstein, J. (Space Sciences Lab., University of California)
  • Published : 2009.10.15

Abstract

Our previous study showed the intensity of the long LBH (1600 - 1715 ${\AA}$) was enhanced very much compared to that of the short LBH (1400 - 1500 ${\AA}$) when the characteristic energy of the precipitating electrons increased from 1 keV to > 7 keV, in accordance with the theoretical models. In this presentation, we would like to present the results of our study for new modeling results about previous report and even higher energy electrons. We selected the events in which the fluxes both in the low energy (100 eV ~ 20 keV) and in the high energy (170 ~ 360 keV) were enhanced, and examined the auroral spectra for these events observed simultaneously by the imaging spectrograph on the same spacecraft. While the accurate characteristic energy could not be determined because of the gap in the energy range, our result showed the intensity ratio of the long LBH to the short LBH ranged from 1.2 to 2.0 in these events, in contrast to 1.0 or smaller for the events in which the highest enhancement was seen only in the low energy. Our study suggests that intense auroras might be accompanied by high energy electrons above 20 keV.

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