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Simultaneous pulsating aurora and microburst observations with ground-based fast auroral imagers and CubeSat FIREBIRD-II
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  • Miki Kawamura,
  • Takeshi Sakanoi,
  • Mizuki Fukizawa,
  • Yoshizumi Miyoshi,
  • Keisuke Hosokawa,
  • Fuminori Tsuchiya,
  • Yuto Katoh,
  • Yasunobu Ogawa,
  • Kazushi Asamura,
  • Shinji Saito,
  • Harlan E. Spence,
  • Arlo Johnson,
  • Shin'ichiro Oyama,
  • Urban Brändström
Miki Kawamura
Tohoku University

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Takeshi Sakanoi
Tohoku University
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Mizuki Fukizawa
Tohoku University
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Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
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Keisuke Hosokawa
University of Electro-Communications
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Fuminori Tsuchiya
Tohoku University
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Yuto Katoh
Tohoku University
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Yasunobu Ogawa
National Institute of Polar Research
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Kazushi Asamura
The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
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Shinji Saito
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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Harlan E. Spence
University of New Hampshire
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Arlo Johnson
Montana State University
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Shin'ichiro Oyama
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research Nagoya University
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Urban Brändström
Institute of Space Physics
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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.
28 Sep 2021Published in Geophysical Research Letters volume 48 issue 18. 10.1029/2021GL094494