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Chua et al. 2003
Chua, D.H., Dymond, K.F., Budzien, S.A., McCoy, R.P., Gérard, J.-C., Coumans, V., Bisikalo, D. and Shematovich, V. (2003). High resolution FUV observations of proton aurora. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL017830. issn: 0094-8276.

We present new FUV observations of Doppler-shifted Lyman-α emissions from proton aurora obtained from the High Resolution Ionospheric and Thermospheric Spectrograph (HITS) aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS). The HITS instrument observes the Doppler-shifted H Lyman-α emissions from proton precipitation with 1.5 ¿ resolution. The high spectral resolution of these measurements allows the auroral Lyman-α emissions to be separated from the intense geocoronal background. The measured proton aurora Doppler spectra are modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation of proton flux transport. The forward modeling performed with this code allows us to infer the characteristic energies of the incident protons from the measured Lyman-α Doppler spectra. The inferred characteristics of dayside versus nightside proton precipitation are compared and used to identify the magnetospheric regions from which the particles likely originated.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Thermosphere--energy deposition, Ionosphere, Auroral ionosphere, Ionosphere, Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Particle precipitation
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Geophysical Research Letters
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