HR: 1330h
AN: SM42B-0600    [PDF]
TI: Conjugate auroral observations under various interplanetary conditions
AU: Vondrak, R R
EM: vondrak@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Bldg 2 Rm 115, Mail Code 690, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Stubbs, T J
EM: tstubbs@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Bldg 21 Rm C218, Mail Code 690.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: \Ostgaard, N
EM: nikost@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: U.C. Berkeley, 326 Space Sciences Laboratory Addition, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 United States
AU: Sigwarth, J B
EM: john-sigwarth@uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1479 United States
AU: Frank, L A
EM: louis-frank@uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1479 United States
AB: Recently, it has been possible to observe the entire auroral oval in both the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously with the IMAGE FUV imagers and Polar VIS Earth camera, respectively. These rare opportunities allow us to study conjugate and non-conjugate effects between the two hemispheres under various interplanetary conditions. This enables us to better understand the transfer of mass and energy from the solar wind to the magnetosphere/ionosphere system. The events we study here are from late 2002 with periods of simultaneous observation lasting between about 35 and 60 minutes. Most events are associated with a steady IMF B$_X$ component, where the IMF B$_Y$ and B$_Z$ components vary.
DE: 2407 Auroral ionosphere (2704)
DE: 2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions (2736)
DE: 2704 Auroral phenomena (2407)
DE: 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
SC: SPA - Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting