In situ observations of the "preexisting auroral arc" by THEMIS all sky imagers and the FAST spacecraft

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Feifei ^a   Strangeway, Robert J ^a   Kivelson, Margaret G ^a,b   Weygand, James M ^a   Walker, Raymond J ^a   Khurana, Krishan K ^a   Nishimura, Yukitoshi ^a   Angelopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Donovan, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 84861326688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA017128     Document Type: Article

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