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Electric fields and energetic particles, measured on a sounding-rocket flight across an auroral arc, are used here to determine the configuration of electric fields in and above the ionosphere associated with the auroral arc. The Skylark rocket was launched from Andøya, Norway at 2044 UT (2259 MLT) on November 1, 1974 at the end of the growth phase of an isolated substorm, which developed into a negative bay of 200 nT, commencing at 2100 UT. An auroral image obtained from the fortunately-coincident DMSP- 9532 satellite shows that the rocket crossed a single discrete arc that extended in magnetic local time from early evening to magnetic midnight, where breakup was beginning to take place.
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Edwards, T., Bryant, D.A., Smith, M.J., Fahleson, U., Fälthammar, CG., Pedersen, A. (1976). Electric Fields and Energetic Particle Precipitation in an Auroral Arc. In: McCormac, B.M. (eds) Magnetospheric Particles and Fields. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1503-5_26
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