[en] We present new FUV observations of Doppler-shifted Lyman-alpha emissions from proton aurora obtained from the High Resolution Ionospheric and Thermospheric Spectrograph ( HITS) aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS). The HITS instrument observes the Doppler-shifted H Lyman-alpha emissions from proton precipitation with 1.5 Angstrom resolution. The high spectral resolution of these measurements allows the auroral Lyman-alpha emissions to be separated from the intense geocoronal background. The measured proton aurora Doppler spectra are modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation of proton flux transport. The forward modeling performed with this code allows us to infer the characteristic energies of the incident protons from the measured Lyman-alpha Doppler spectra. The inferred characteristics of dayside versus nightside proton precipitation are compared and used to identify the magnetospheric regions from which the particles likely originated.
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Coumans, Valérie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Bisikalo, D.
Shematovich, V.
Language :
English
Title :
High resolution FUV observations of proton aurora
Publication date :
24 September 2003
Journal title :
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN :
0094-8276
eISSN :
1944-8007
Publisher :
Amer Geophysical Union, Washington, United States - District of Columbia
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