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SUBMITTER: Schroeder JWR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184961 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schroeder J W R JWR Howes G G GG Kletzing C A CA Skiff F F Carter T A TA Vincena S S Dorfman S S
Nature communications 20210607 1
While the aurora has attracted attention for millennia, important questions remain unanswered. Foremost is how auroral electrons are accelerated before colliding with the ionosphere and producing auroral light. Powerful Alfvén waves are often found traveling Earthward above auroras with sufficient energy to generate auroras, but there has been no direct measurement of the processes by which Alfvén waves transfer their energy to auroral electrons. Here, we show laboratory measurements of the reso ...[more]