Polar spacecraft based comparisons of intense electric fields and Poynting flux near and within the plasma sheet-tail lobe boundary to UVI images: An energy source for the aurora

By J. Wygant, A. Keiling, C. Cattell, M. Johnson, R. Lysak, M. Temerin, F. Mozer, Craig Kletzing, J. Scudder, W.K. (Bill) Peterson and 4 more. 2000

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Particle Acceleration in the Magnetotail and Aurora (2012, background): “has been made in the auroral regions (Wygant et al. 2000).”
Magnetohydrodynamic Oscillations in the Solar Corona and Earth’s Magnetosphere: Towards Consolidated Understanding (2016, background): “…that the Pointing flux of the electromagnetic wave energy along a magnetic flux tube conjugate to an auroral arc is much higher than the flux of the energetic electrons, and is more than sufficient (about 2 orders of magnitude) to drive the relevant auroral intensification (Wygant et al. 2000).”
First results of electric field and density observations by Cluster EFW based on initial months of operation (2001, background): “In a recent study, largeamplitude electric fields observed by Polar were interpreted as signatures of Alfv́en waves carrying enough Poynting flux to produce intense auroral arcs (Wygant et al., 2000).”