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An analysis of magnetic reconnection events and their associated auroral enhancements
Reistad, J. P.; Milan, S. E.; Case, N. A. +2 more
An analysis of simultaneous reconnection events in the near-Earth magnetotail and enhancements in the aurora is undertaken. Exploiting magnetospheric data from the Geotail, Cluster, and Double Star missions, along with auroral images from the IMAGE and Polar missions, the relationship between a reconnection signature and its auroral counterpart is…