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The dynamics of auroral arcs, observed in the prenoon sector during the 2-h period, has been studied in the context of ionospheric convection. The appearance of an isolated arc, the poleward drift velocity of which pronouncedly exceeded the plasma drift velocity, accompanied the IMF impulse and could result from the Alfvén resonance oscillations of the magnetosphere. Arcs that appeared after the northward turning of the IMF vertical component drifted poleward at a velocity close to the convection velocity. The mechanism of arc generation is related to the flute instability which develops in the region of the large-scale field-aligned current. Flute instability indications are found out in the POLAR satellite data. The study confirms the previously proposed classification criterion for dayside arcs with the source on closed field lines, based on the character of arc drift as compared to convection.
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Original Russian Text © A.E. Kozlovsky, H. Nilsson, V.V. Safargaleev, 2006, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 501–513.
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Kozlovsky, A.E., Nilsson, H. & Safargaleev, V.V. Complex study of the auroral arc dynamics and ionospheric plasma convection in prenoon hours. Geomagn. Aeron. 46, 473–484 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793206040098
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