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  • XiaoXin Zhang, Fei He, Bo Chen, Chao Shen, HuaNing Wang. 2017: Correlations between plasmapause evolutions and auroral signatures during substorms observed by Chang’e-3 EUV Camera. Earth and Planetary Physics, 1(1): 35-43. DOI: 10.26464/epp2017005
    Citation: XiaoXin Zhang, Fei He, Bo Chen, Chao Shen, HuaNing Wang. 2017: Correlations between plasmapause evolutions and auroral signatures during substorms observed by Chang’e-3 EUV Camera. Earth and Planetary Physics, 1(1): 35-43. DOI: 10.26464/epp2017005
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Correlations between plasmapause evolutions and auroral signatures during substorms observed by Chang’e-3 EUV Camera

  • The plasmapause locations determined from the Chang’e-3 (CE-3) Extreme Ultraviolet Camera (EUVC) images and the auroral boundaries determined from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager (SSUSI) images are used to investigate the plasmaspheric evolutions during substorms. The most important finding is a nightside pointing plasmaspheric plume observed at 23:05 UT on 21 April 2014 under quiet solar wind and geomagnetic conditions, which drifted from the dusk sector. High correlations between the plasmapause evolutions and the auroral signatures exist during substorms. After substorm onset, the plasmapause erosion and the equatorward expansion of the auroral oval occur almost simultaneously in both MLT and UT, and then both the erosion and the expansion propagate westward and eastward. It is suggested that the plasmaspheric erosion and its MLT propagations are induced by the enhanced earthward plasma convection during substorm period, and the substorm dipolarization causes pitch-angle scattering of plasma sheet electrons and the resulting precipitation excites aurora emissions at the same time.

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