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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-865</article-id>
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<article-title>Mesoscale Structure of Flickering Aurora from Wide-Field High-Speed Imaging</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nanjo</surname>
<given-names>Sota</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8152-9947</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kurita</surname>
<given-names>Satoshi</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sergienko</surname>
<given-names>Tima</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-2174</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Miyoshi</surname>
<given-names>Yoshizumi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-1240</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kataoka</surname>
<given-names>Ryuho</given-names>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>20</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Sota Nanjo et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>We report wide-field observations of flickering aurora obtained with a fast sCMOS camera and a diagonal fisheye lens at Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska, on 8 February 2016. The system recorded 512&amp;times;512 pixel images at 80 Hz, enabling us to investigate the mesoscale organization of flickering along a discrete auroral arc over spatial scales of several hundred kilometers. Flickering occurred intermittently with dominant frequencies between 3 and 20 Hz, most commonly within a narrower band of 4&amp;ndash;12 Hz. Spatial maps of the peak frequency reveal that regions with similar periodicities sometimes formed coherent clusters on scales of&amp;sim;10 km, and that multiple clusters with different frequencies (e.g., &amp;sim;8 and&amp;sim;13 Hz) could coexist simultaneously along the same arc, separated by &amp;sim;150 km. Some of these clusters moved together with the background arc, suggesting that the modulation is closely tied to the local plasma environment and inverted-V potential structures associated with discrete aurora. An automated patch detection analysis showed that, although individual events may locally suggest an inverse relationship between flickering frequency and patch size, this trend does not persist statistically. Instead, flickering at a given dominant frequency occurs over a wide range of patch sizes, with a typical north&amp;ndash;south scale of 4.4&amp;plusmn;2.4 km at 110 km altitude. These results are consistent with generation scenarios in which electron precipitation is modulated by interference among multiple EMIC waves in the auroral acceleration region, extending previous narrow-field studies to the mesoscale and demonstrating the diagnostic value of wide-field, high-cadence imaging for wave&amp;ndash;particle interactions in the auroral ionosphere.</p>
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