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All-Sky Imager and Geosynchronous Spacecraft Analysis of Nighttime Magnetic Perturbation Events Observed in Arctic Canada

2025· preprint· en· W4411139018 on OpenAlexafffundabout
J. M. Weygand, M. J. Engebretson, Martin Connors, J. V. Rodriguez

Bibliographic record

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Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGeomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
FundersDanmarks Tekniske UniversitetU.S. Geological SurveyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Centers for Environmental InformationNatural Environment Research CouncilCanadian Space AgencyAugsburg UniversityNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNuclear Safety and Security CommissionUniversity of AlbertaU.S. Department of CommerceNational Science Foundation
KeywordsGeosynchronous orbitSpacecraftSkyEnvironmental scienceThe arcticPerturbation (astronomy)ArcticRemote sensingClimatologyAtmospheric sciencesMeteorologyPhysicsGeodesyAstronomyGeographyGeologySatelliteOceanography

Abstract

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Magnetic perturbation events (MPEs) can potentially produce geomagnetically-induced currents within power grids and rail lines. Predicting when and where these events will occur is not yet possible. It is currently unclear what range of auroral and magnetospheric features are correlated with MPEs. Identifying these features will make predicting them easier. In this study we examine the all sky images and magnetically conjugate geosynchronous GOES 13 particle data during 121 MPEs identified in the Kuujjuarapik, Canada magnetometer by Engebretson et al. (2021; 2022). The all sky image data shows a wide range of auroral features associated with MPEs including: auroral streamers, westward traveling surges, pseudo breakups, poleward boundary intensifications, auroral omegas, waves, and vortices. Twenty-Seven of 42 MPEs with all sky images including streamers, auroral omegas, and westward traveling surges are closely associated with high speed earthward flows (HSEFs) in the magnetotail. Similarly, in the GOES 13 magnetic field and particle data we find a range of features including magnetic field dipolarizations, dispersionless and dispersed particle injections, flux increases, flux decreases, flux dropouts, and no changes in the particle flux levels. Forty-five of 121 MPEs with geosynchronous electron data (57 of 121 MPEs with ion data) have particle injections, which are a good proxy for HSEFs. These auroral and spacecraft results suggest HSEFs in the magnetotail are a common magnetospheric source of MPEs. While some of these features are associated with HSEFs, our results indicate that there is a wide range of auroral and magnetospheric features, making predicting MPEs difficult.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.036
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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