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Estimation of Precipitating Electron Energy of Pulsating Aurora Using Ground-based Multiwavelength Optical Observations
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  • Kohei Toyama,
  • Yoshizumi Miyoshi,
  • Satoshi Kurita,
  • Keisuke Hosokawa,
  • Yasunobu Ogawa,
  • Shin-ichiro Oyama,
  • Shinji Saito,
  • Kazuo Shiokawa,
  • Kazushi Asamura,
  • Takaki Asano,
  • Fuminori Tsuchiya,
  • Ryoichi Fujii
Kohei Toyama
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
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Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University

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Satoshi Kurita
Kyoto University
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Keisuke Hosokawa
University of Electro-Communications
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Yasunobu Ogawa
National Institute of Polar Research
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Shin-ichiro Oyama
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
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Shinji Saito
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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Kazuo Shiokawa
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
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Kazushi Asamura
The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
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Takaki Asano
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
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Fuminori Tsuchiya
Tohoku University
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Ryoichi Fujii
Research Organization of Information and Systems
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Abstract

Pulsating aurora (PsA) is characterized by quasi-periodic intensity modulations with a period of a few to a few tens of seconds. It is caused by precipitation of energetic electrons of a few to several tens of kilo electronvolts produced by chorus waves in the magnetosphere. Precipitating electron energies of PsA have been identified in the past by sounding rocket and satellite observations, but the spatial distributions of precipitating electron energies of PsA have never been estimated. In this study, using the data from ground-based all-sky cameras at two wavelengths of 427.8 nm and 844.6 nm, we estimated the temporal and spatial variations in the precipitating electron energy of PsA. The results showed that the spatial distribution of precipitating electron energies was not uniform in the PsA patch, suggesting that the coherent spatial scale of the wave-particle interactions is smaller than each PsA patch size.