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Synopsis
INDEX
UJI LECTURES ON THE AURORA
Copyright 1997, 1998, by W. Calvert, all rights reserved.
Akasofu, 15, 53,
54
AKR - auroral kilometric radiation,
36, 37,
38, 40,
42, 43,
45, 64,
83
- AKR during a substorm, 37
- AKR from discrete arcs, 38
- source altitude
, 39
- AKR radio laser, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68
- discrete spectra, 42, 43, 64, 83
- explanation for discrete spectra, 59, 63, 64
- triggering, 45, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83
- wave mode, 40
auroral plasma cavity, 41
Bahnsen, 48,
65
Benson and Calvert, 39
Bomback and Calvert, 43
Borovsky, 15, 55,
56
Borovsky et al., 15, 55
Calvert, 24,
39, 44,
45, 64,
66, 78,
87
Calvert et al., 92,
93
convection - see inward convection
cyclotron maser instability, 46, 47, 50
deduction diagram, 97,
98
de Feraudy, 48,
65
density depletions, 63,
68, 70,
71, 72,
79, 80
- origin of the density depletions in which radio lasing occurs, 70, 71,
72
- radio lasing inside a local density depletion,
63
- time required to decrease the density along an auroral field line, 72, 79,
80
diffuse aurora, 52, 57, 84, 96
- diffuse aurora prior to substorm expansion, 52, 53, 57, 70
- homogeneous arc, 73
- diffuse electron precipitation during substorm expansion,
84
discrete arcs, 21,
49, 57, 96
- discrete arcs during a substorm, 52
- explanation for discrete arcs,
68
- first discrete arc of substorm expansion, 53,
74
- thin discrete arcs, 54,
55, 57
DMSP, 13, 14, 16, 25
- inverted-V electrons, 13, 15, 16
- thickness of inverted-V events, 14, 15
- spatial resolution, 16
domino theory of substorm expansion, 76, 84
electron acceleration region, 2, 5, 6, 10
electron bounce period, 32
electron energy, 5, 11, 20, 49
electron energy inside discrete arcs, 49
electron precipitation, 7, 8, 9, 21, 31, 33, 34, 68, 70
- precipitation flux, 8, 11, 21, 34, 68, 72
- predicted electron energy flux, 9
- source of the electrons that cause the aurora, 23, 24, 26, 33, 47
electron acceleration region, 2, 6, 12, 21, 30
electronic oscillators, 58
Evans, 55
Farrell and Gurnett, 45, 78
Farrell et al., 45, 78
features of the aurora, 57, 96
filled loss cone theory, 2, 7, 11, 21, 22
Gurnett, 36
Gurnett and Anderson, 42, 83
gotcha-kata-kata theory, 82
Hilgers, 63
Hilgers et al., 63
Huff et al., 38
Image satellite, 91
inverted-V electrons, 13
inverted-V electron event, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20
- latitudinal thickness, 14
- measured by DMSP, 13, 15, 16
- measured by Oedipus C, 20
inward convection, 27, 28, 29, 50, 52
- cross-tail electric field, 27
- electron precipitation caused by inward convection, 34
- inward convection across electric equipotentials, 31
- inward convection into the loss cone, 33
- inward convection of the electron acceleration region, 30
H. G. James, 19
Kaiser and Alexander, 37
Kim and Volkman, 55
Knight, 2
Knight theory, 7, 8, 9, 10
laser, 60, 61, 62
- angular beamwidth, 61
- frequency and bandwidth, 62
- quenching, 59, 62
- wave feedback, 60
- wave field, 61
Lin and Hoffman, 15
loss cone, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11
- predicted electron precipitation for a filled loss cone , 8, 11
- energy flux for a filled loss cone, 9
- filled-loss-cone theory, 2
Maggs and Davis, 15, 55
Newell et al., 13, 14, 16
Oedipus C, 17, 18, 19, 21, 49, 84
- aurora during flight, 19
- diffuse electron precipitation during substorm expansion, 84
- discrete arcs, 21
- inverted-V electrons, 20
- loss in energy inside discrete arcs, 49
- payload, 17
- trajectory, 18
predicted triggering of the aurora, 81, 87, 89, 90, 94
predicted power of the aurora, 48
previous theories, 2, 22, 23, 25
quenching, 59, 62
radio laser- see AKR radio laser
Radio Plasma Imager (RPI), 91, 92, 93, 94
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measuring the magnetosphere with RPI, 92
- triggering the aurora with RPI, 87, 89, 90, 94
Reiff et al., 91
Rostoker, 88
Roux et al., 63
S-brusts from Jupiter, 64
scattering into the loss cone, 47
source of the electrons that cause the aurora, 23, 24, 26, 33, 47
Stormer, 55
structure of discrete arcs, 35
- explanation for discrete arcs, 68
- previous theory, 12
- structure of discrete arcs, 21,
54, 55,
56
substorm, 52, 96
substorm onset, 52, 53, 57, 74, 79, 80, 86, 88
substorm expansion, 52, 57, 82, 85, 86
- first discrete arc of substorm expansion, 53 ,
74
- the gotcha-kata-kata-kata theory of substorm expansion,
82
- substorm expansion to higher latitudes during a substorm,
85
theory of the aurora, 1,
2, 7,
8, 9,
10, 82,
95
- explanation for the aurora, 95
- previous theories,
2, 7,
8, 9,
10
- the gotcha-kata-kata theory,
82
thickness of discrete arcs, 14
- measured by DMSP, 13, 15, 16
- measured by Oedipus C, 20
- predicted thickness by the AKR radio laser theory, 68
triggering, 45, 78, 79, 80, 81, 87, 89, 90, 94
- triggered AKR
, 45, 78
- explanation for triggered AKR, 80
- triggering adjacent discrete arcs, 82
- triggering substorm expansion, 79, 80
- triggering of the aurora with RPI, 81, 87, 89, 90, 94
Verdeyen, 60, 61, 62
Wakaru Club, 99, Certificate