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Area of Science:

  • Space Physics
  • Geophysics
  • Network Science Applications

Background:

  • Geomagnetic substorms represent global magnetospheric reconfigurations with significant energy transfer to the ionosphere.
  • Auroral electrojets, integral to the substorm current wedge, are large-scale ionospheric currents.
  • Existing models for substorm current wedge evolution and structure are numerous and often contradictory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the structure and evolution of the auroral electrojet system during geomagnetic substorms.
  • To investigate the scale and coherence of ionospheric current systems using ground-based magnetometer data.
  • To test proposed scenarios of magnetospheric reconfiguration during substorms.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 137 ground-based magnetometers provided by the SuperMAG collaboration.
  • Applied network science techniques, including the calculation of a time-varying directed network.
  • Employed community detection algorithms to identify locally dense connection groups within the network.

Main Results:

  • Analysis of 41 substorms revealed a significant structural change in the ionospheric current systems.
  • Before substorm onset, numerous small, uncorrelated current systems were observed.
  • Approximately 10 minutes post-onset, these systems coalesced into a single, large, spatially extended, and coherent system.

Conclusions:

  • The auroral electrojet system during substorm expansions is fundamentally a large-scale phenomenon.
  • The observed coherence challenges the notion that substorm expansions are solely driven by numerous mesoscale 'wedgelets'.
  • Network science provides a powerful tool for understanding complex magnetospheric dynamics.