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The global mapping of electron precipitation and ionospheric conductance from whistler-mode chorus waves

Gillespie, Dillon; Connor, Hyunju Kim; Ma, Qianli +4 more

Auroral precipitation is the second major energy source after solar irradiation that ionizes the Earth's upper atmosphere. Diffuse electron aurora caused by wave-particle interaction in the inner magnetosphere (L < 8) takes over 60% of total auroral energy flux, strongly contributing to the ionospheric conductance and thus to the ionosphere-the…