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Pitch-angle diffusion and the origin of temporal and spatial structures in morningside aurorae

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Morningside aurorae at latitudes below about 70° display complex spatial and temporal structures unlike anything seen in the evening or midnight sectors. The morningside structures are believed to be formed by the precipitation of trapped electrons injected in auroral substorms; no significant role has yet been identified in the morningside auroral regions for the large-scale parallel electric fields that dominate the evening side. How those spatial and temporal structures originate has been the subject of much speculation; most theoretical mechanisms focus on the wave-particle interactions that drive pitch-angle diffusion. The principal evidence pertaining to the role of pitch-angle diffusion in the auroral regions is reviewed here. The observational evidence concerns mainly auroral emissions in the atmosphere, energetic particles observed from rockets and satellites, VLF waves at high altitudes, magnetospheric cold plasma, and magnetic pulsations detected on the ground. With the aid of such evidence, plus observations and theories related to the outer ‘permanently trapped’ radiation belts, several theoretical models for the modulation of VLF wave growth in the equatorial regions have been pieced together. Those models, and the observational data supporting them, are examined to see how well they fit the observational picture and to see where they might lead in future research. The models fall into two categories: those in which the modulations are externally imposed and those in which the modulations are self-excited. For the temporal variations the self-excited mechanisms are now favored. The leading candidate involves a nonlinear relaxation oscillator; the nonlinearity may have important consequences. There are several contenders in both categories for the origin of the spatial structures, none of which agrees fully with inferences from the observations. All the theories involve critical parameters that have not yet been precisely fixed. The critical research needs are listed and discussed.

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Davidson, G.T. Pitch-angle diffusion and the origin of temporal and spatial structures in morningside aurorae. Space Sci Rev 53, 45–82 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00217428

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