Nightside Discrete Auroral Arcs: Inferring Electrodynamics from Imagery in the Isinglass Sounding Rockets Case Studies


Kristina A Lynch1, Robert Clayton2, T Max Roberts3, Matthew D Zettergren4, Meghan Burleigh5, Donald L Hampton6, Mark Conde6, Guy Alan Grubbs II7, Robert Michell8,9, Marilia Samara9, Marc Lessard10, David L Hysell11, Steven P Powell12, Roger H Varney13 and Ashton Seth Reimer14, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Physics, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (5)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)USRA/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (11)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (12)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (13)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States