Quiescent Discrete Auroral Arcs: A Review of Magnetospheric Generator Mechanisms

@article{Borovsky2019QuiescentDA,
  title={Quiescent Discrete Auroral Arcs: A Review of Magnetospheric Generator Mechanisms},
  author={Joseph, E. Borovsky and Joachim Birn and Marius M. Echim and Shigeru Fujita and Robert L. Lysak and David J. Knudsen and Octav Marghitu and Antonius Otto and Tomo-Hiko Watanabe and Takashi Tanaka},
  journal={Space Science Reviews},
  year={2019}
}
One of the longstanding questions of space science is: How does the Earth’s magnetosphere generate auroral arcs? A related question is: What form of energy is extracted from the magnetosphere to drive auroral arcs? Not knowing the answers to these questions hinders our ability to determine the impact of auroral arcs on the magnetospheric system. Magnetospheric mechanisms for driving quiescent auroral arcs are reviewed. Two types of quiescent arcs are (1) low-latitude non-Alfvenic (growth-phase… 
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