| Title | Origins of the Earth's Diffuse Auroral Precipitation |
| Authors | Ni, Binbin Thorne, Richard M. Zhang, Xiaojia Bortnik, Jacob Pu, Zuyin Xie, Lun Hu, Ze-jun Han, Desheng Shi, Run Zhou, Chen Gu, Xudong |
| Affiliation | Wuhan Univ, Sch Elect Informat, Dept Space Phys, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, Peoples R China. Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Earth Planetary & Space Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. Peking Univ, Inst Space Phys & Appl Technol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Polar Res Inst China, SOA Key Lab Polar Sci, Shanghai 200136, Peoples R China. Mem Univ Newfoundland, Dept Math & Stat, St John, NF A1C 5S7, Canada. |
| Keywords | ION-CYCLOTRON WAVES PITCH-ANGLE DIFFUSION WHISTLER-MODE WAVES RADIATION-BELT ELECTRONS 1-2 MAGNETIC PULSATIONS DAWN-DUSK ASYMMETRY EQUATORIAL MAGNETOSPHERE OUTER MAGNETOSPHERE ELECTROSTATIC-WAVES EMIC WAVES |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS |
| Citation | SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS.2016,200,(1-4),205-259. |
| Abstract | The Earth's diffuse auroral precipitation provides the major source of energy input into the nightside upper atmosphere and acts as an essential linkage of the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. Resonant wave-particle interactions play a dominant role in the scattering of injected plasma sheet electrons, leading to the diffuse auroral precipitation. We review the recent advances in understanding the origin of the diffuse aurora and in quantifying the exact roles of various magnetospheric waves in producing the global distribution of diffuse auroral precipitation and its variability with the geomagnetic activity. Combined scattering by upper-and lower-band chorus accounts for the most intense inner magnetospheric electron diffuse auroral precipitation on the nightside. Dayside chorus can be responsible for the weaker dayside electron diffuse auroral precipitation. Pulsating auroras, the dynamic auroral structures embedded in the diffuse aurora, can be mainly caused by modulation of the excitation of lower band chorus due to macroscopic density variations in the magnetosphere. Electrostatic electron cyclotron harmonic waves are an important or even dominant cause for the nightside electron diffuse auroral precipitation beyond and can also contribute to the occurrence of the pulsating aurora at high -shells. Scattering by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves could quite possibly be the leading candidate responsible for the ion precipitation (especially the reversed-type events of the energy-latitude dispersion) in the regions of the central plasma sheet and ring current. We conclude the review with a summary of current understanding, outstanding questions, and a number of suggestions for future research. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/437437 |
| ISSN | 0038-6308 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11214-016-0234-7 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) EI |
| Appears in Collections: | 地球与空间科学学院 |
