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Auroral Isochasms

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THEORETICAL reasons exist for believing that the auroral isochasms should be projections of circles in the equatorial plane outside the Earth on to its surface along the geomagnetic lines of force1.

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  1. Alfvén, H., “Cosmical Electrodynamics” (Oxford, 1950).

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  1. Kiruna Geophysical Observatory, Sweden

    BENGT HULTQVIST

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HULTQVIST, B. Auroral Isochasms. Nature 183, 1478–1479 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831478a0

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