Surveying pulsating auroras

Grono, Eric; Donovan, Eric

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 1

Regular paper

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02 Jan 2020

Regular paper |

| 02 Jan 2020

Surveying pulsating auroras

Eric Grono and Eric Donovan

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Final revised paper (published on 02 Jan 2020)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee report on manuscript angeo-2019-129', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Eric Grono, 06 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Referee's report on "Surveying pulsating auroras" by Grono and Donovan', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Eric Grono, 25 Nov 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (26 Nov 2019) by Georgios Balasis

AR by Eric Grono on behalf of the Authors (27 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This is the first survey of pulsating auroras which is differentiated by type. Pulsating auroras are found to be almost always an early-morning phenomenon and are almost entirely lacking persistent structuring before midnight. Long-lived patches which are known to move with convection primarily appear after midnight. These patches are a less common form of pulsating aurora and are found to originate from the inner magnetosphere, in agreement with past observations of their source region.