AERO: Remote Sensing of Auroral Radio Emissions from a Small Satellite Using Electromagnetic Vector Sensors

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Earth's aurora has a complexity and richness in both energetics and spatial/temporal structure that is of intense interest for community understanding of space physics. Auroral radio emissions from the ionosphere in the LF to HF range (<= 5 MHz) form a powerful space physics observational tool because they provide a means to remotely sense auroral ionospheric plasma conditions and processes and to resolve long standing mysteries on the auroral acceleration process. For instance, auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) is the most important energetic radio source in the aurora, radiating up to 1 % of total auroral energy, but open questions exist on its appearance below the ionosphere. Electromagnetic vector sensor antenna (VSA) systems provide a potent method to advance knowledge of these features by accomplishing direction finding capability from a small compact sensor.

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