Simultaneous pulsating aurora and microburst observations with
ground-based fast auroral imagers and CubeSat FIREBIRD-II
Abstract
We report on the relationship between pulsating aurora and relativistic
electron microburst using simultaneous observations of ground-based fast
auroral imagers with the FIREBIRD-Ⅱ CubeSat for the first time. We
conducted a detailed analysis of an event on October 8, 2018 and found
that the occurrence of a pulsating aurora with internal modulations
corresponds to the flux enhancement of electrons with energy ranging
from 219.7 to 984.95 keV detected with Flight Unit 4, one of FIREBIRD’s
CubeSat, with a time delay of 525 ms. Assuming that the pulsating aurora
was produced by 10-keV electrons, we suggest that this time difference
of 525 ms is consistent with the theory by Miyoshi et al. (2020) that a
pulsating aurora and microburst occur due to the chorus waves at
different latitudes along the same field line.