[P-EM21] Surprises from the Subauroral Zone: Synthesizing Ground and Space-Based Observations and Theory

[PEM21-P03] SAR arc at 68^o geomagnetic (71^o geographic) North for Kp = 0+

*大山 伸一郎^1,2,3、新堀 淳樹¹、Aikio Anita²、Vanhamaki Heikki²、小川 泰信³、Kellinsalmi Mirjam⁴、Raita Tero²、Rietveld Mike⁵、塩川 和夫¹、Virtanen Ilkka²、Cai Lei⁶、Workayehu Abiyot²、Pedersen Marcus²、Kauristie Kirsti⁴、Kozelov Boris⁷、Demekhov Andrei⁷ (1.名古屋大学宇宙地球環境研究所、2.オウル大学、3.国立極地研究所、4.フィンランド気象研究所、5.欧州非干渉散乱レーダー協会、6.スウェーデン王立工科大学、7.ロシア極域地球物理研究所)

キーワード：SARアーク、地磁気静穏、電離圏

Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc has been studied for more than half century since its academic discovery in Southern France in 1958 as one of the typical optical features occasionally seen at subauroral latitudes. Generation mechanism of the SAR arc is related to storm-time interactions at the overlapped region between the plasmasphere and the ring current. Thus most events have been found out of the auroral oval such as ~60 deg in geomagnetic latitude. In this study, however, we will present a SAR arc event at 68 deg geomagnetic (71 deg geographic) north in the Scandinavian sector during period of geomagnetically quiet condition of Kp = 0+. The SAR arc, which was captured with cameras (630 nm) at Abisko and Kirpisjärvi, appeared coinciding with a pseudo substorm onset at 71-72 deg geomag. N and rapid equatorward expansion of the polar cap potential estimated with the SuperDARN. However, the SAR arc disappeared in about 7 minutes along with a sudden shrinking of the polar cap potential. Conjunction measurement with the Swarm A/C suggests that the SAR arc was located at poleward slope of the ionospheric trough or slightly its outside. These experimental evidences suggest that, in the early stage of this SAR arc generation, the magnetosphere compressed the ring current region inward, resulting in a contact of the ring current region to the plasmasphere but expansion of the polar cap potential was too short to coalescent the ring-current hot ions and plasmaspheric electrons at the plasmapause, which corresponds to the trough minimum in the ionosphere.