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Loss through Auroral Microburst Precipitation (LAMP)

The LAMP sounding rocket was launched to provide insights into three science questions: 1) What is the optical signature of auroral microburst precipitation and what is its spatial distribution with respect to pulsating aurora? 2) Does auroral microburst precipitation (specifically microburst “trains”) account for the high frequency modulations typically superimposed on the pulsating aurora, i.e. how are those structures related temporally? and 3) Is there a high energy tail component of the auroral microburst electron distribution with energy greater than a few 100 keV, i.e. are the auroral microbursts that are observed within pulsating aurora a subset of relativistic, radiation belt electron microbursts?

Launch Date
March 5, 2022
Class
Field Campaign
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Key Staffs
  • Principal Investigator
    Dr. Alexa J Halford
  • Co Investigator
    Allison Jaynes
  • Co Investigator
    Kristina Lynch
  • Co Investigator
    Marc Lessard
  • Co Investigator
    Kazushi Asamura
  • Co Investigator
    Niharika Godbole
  • Co Investigator
    Keisuke Hosokawa
  • Co Investigator
    Geoff McHarg
  • Co Investigator
    Yoshizumi Miyoshi
  • Co Investigator
    Taku Namekawa
  • Co Investigator
    Masahito Nosé
  • Co Investigator
    Takeshi Sakanoi
  • Co Investigator
    Mykhaylo Shumko
  • Co Investigator
    Riley Troyer
  • Co Investigator
    Miki Kawamura

The LAMP sounding rocket was launched to provide insights into three science questions: 1) What is the optical signature of auroral microburst precipitation and what is its spatial distribution with respect to pulsating aurora? 2) Does auroral microburst precipitation (specifically microburst “trains”) account for the high frequency modulations typically superimposed on the pulsating aurora, i.e. how are those structures related temporally? and 3) Is there a high energy tail component of the auroral microburst electron distribution with energy greater than a few 100 keV, i.e. are the auroral microbursts that are observed within pulsating aurora a subset of relativistic, radiation belt electron microbursts?