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Features of the planetary distribution of auroral precipitation characteristics during substorms

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A planetary pattern of substorm development in auroral precipitation has been constructed on the basis of the F6 and F7 satellite observations. The behavior of the auroral injection boundaries and characteristics of precipitating electrons in various precipitation regions during all phases of a statistically mean magnetospheric substorm with an intensity of AL ∼ −400 nT at a maximum is considered in detail. It is shown that during a substorm, the zone of structured auroral oval precipitation AOP and the diffuse auroral zone DAZ are the widest in the nighttime and daytime sectors, respectively. In the daytime sector, all precipitation regions synchronously shift equatorward not only at the origination phase but during the substorm development phase. The strongest shift to low latitudes of the daytime AOP region is observed at a maximum of the development phase. As a result of this shift, the area of the polar cap increases during the phases of substorm origination and development. It is shown that the average position of the precipitation boundaries and the energy fluxes of precipitating electrons at each phase are linearly related to the intensity of a magnetic disturbance. This makes it possible to develop a model of auroral precipitation development during each phase of substorms of any intensity.

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    V. G. Vorobjev, O. I. Yagodkina & G. V. Starkov

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Vorobjev, O.I. Yagodkina, G.V. Starkov, Ya.I. Feldstein, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 206–218.

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Vorobjev, V.G., Yagodkina, O.I., Starkov, G.V. et al. Features of the planetary distribution of auroral precipitation characteristics during substorms. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 193–204 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207020077

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