Identifying the Driver of Pulsating Aurora

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<jats:title>Auroral Chorus</jats:title> <jats:p> Energetic particles that arrive from near-Earth space produce photon emissions—the aurora—as they bombard the atmosphere in the polar regions. The pulsating aurora, which is characterized by temporal intensity variations, is thought to be caused by modulations in electron precipitation possibly produced by resonance with electromagnetic waves in Earth's magnetosphere. <jats:bold> Nishimura <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" page="81" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="330" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1193186">81</jats:related-article> ) present a detailed study of an event that showed a good correlation between the temporal changes in auroral luminosity and chorus emission—a type of electromagnetic wave occurring in Earth's magnetosphere. The results points to chorus waves as the driver of the pulsating aurora. </jats:p>

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    Science 330 (6000), 81-84, 2010-10

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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