On the origin of aurorae on Mars

By D. Brain, J. Halekas, L. Peticolas, R. P. Lin, J. Luhmann, D. Mitchell, G. Delory, S. Bougher, Mario H. Acuna, H. Rème. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Localized aurora beyond the auroral oval (2007, background): “The Mars aurora is highly concentrated near strong crustal magnetic field sources, and reconnection between the solar wind and the crustal magnetic field can explain the creation of this aurora by accelerated electrons with peak energies ranging from 100 eV to 2.5 keV [Brain et al., 2006].”
• The MAVEN Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (2016, background): “…electron impact is also responsible for excitation and dissociation of atmospheric species (Fillingim et al. 2010, and references therein), which can lead to detectable auroral emissions (Bertaux et al. 2005) if the precipitating energy flux is high enough (Brain et al. 2006; Dubinin et al. 2008).”
• Electron pitch angle distributions as indicators of magnetic field topology near Mars (2007, unknown): “Trapped distributions are nearly always evident near (160 E, 70 S), where high electron fluxes (Figure 4d), auroral-like energy spectra [Brain et al., 2006], and current sheets [Halekas et al., 2006] are also often seen.”
• MAVEN SupraThermal and Thermal Ion Compostion (STATIC) Instrument (2015, background): “Bulk escape processes associated with Martian crustal fields (Brain et al. 2006), trans-terminator flows (Fraenz et al. 2010), shear flows at boundaries (Penz et al. 2004), and the Martian magnetotail (Dubinin et al. 1993; Fedorov et al. 2006) may provide significant ion loss.”
• The MAVEN Magnetic Field Investigation (2015, background): “188 Auroral emissions have been observed on Mars [Bertaux et al., 2005; Brain et al., 2006; Lundin et al., 189 2006; Brain and Halekas, 2012.] in association with the most intensely magnetized regions of the 190 southern highlands.”