Abstract Observations at Sanae, Antarctica of pulsating aurora with a low light level TV system have been combined with simultaneous records of narrow band VLF emissions. Both auroral light and VLF intensities display a significant peak at 1.3 ± 0.3 Hz in the power spectrum. The peaks in the auroral light intensity variations lead those in the VLF by times between zero and 200 ms, as revealed by cross-spectral analysis. Furthermore the 4 kHz VLF component leads the 3.5 kHz component by zero to 100 ms. These results are explained in terms of cyclotron resonance between the auroral electrons and VLF in a region displaced 8000 km from the equatorial plane.
Correlated pulsations in auroral light intensity and narrow band VLF emissions
Advances in Space Research ; 6 , 3 ; 227-230
1987-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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