A specialized ground-based system has been developed for simultaneous observations of pulsating aurora (PsA) and related magnetospheric phenomena with the Arase satellite. The instrument suite is composed of 1) six 100-Hz sampling high-speed all-sky imagers (ASIs), 2) two 10-Hz sampling monochromatic ASIs observing 427.8 and 844.6 nm auroral emissions, 3) Watec Monochromatic Imagers, 4) a 20-Hz sampling magnetometer and 5) a 5-wavelength photometer. The 100-Hz ASIs were deployed in four stations in Scandinavia and two stations in Alaska, which have been used for capturing the main pulsations and quasi 3 Hz internal modulations of PsA at the same time. The 10-Hz sampling monochromatic ASIs have been operative in Tromsø, Norway with the 20-Hz magnetometer and the 5-wavelength photometer. Combination of these multiple instruments with the European Incoherent SCATter (EISCAT) radar enables us to reveal the energetics/electrodynamics behind PsA and further to detect the low-altitude ionization due to energetic electron precipitation during PsA. In particular, we intend to derive the characteristic energy of precipitating electrons during PsA by comparing the 427.8 and 844.6 nm emissions from the two monochromatic ASIs. Since the launch of the Arase satellite, the data from these instruments have been examined in comparison with the wave and particle data from the satellite in the magnetosphere. In the future, the system will be utilized not only for studies of PsA but also for other categories of aurora in close collaboration with the planned EISCAT_3D project.

We present simultaneous observations of VLF emissions with periodic (2 or 4 s) bursts by Van Allen Probe near geomagnetic equator and Kannuslehto and Lovozero ground-based sites. The repetition period and ground–spacecraft delay are consistent with guided whistler wave propagation between conjugate ionospheres. In contrast to lightning whistlers, the group velocity dispersion is not accumulated from one burst to another, thus implying a nonlinear mechanism of its compensation. Two regimes are observed. In one regime, Poynting flux direction alternates in the magnetosphere, and the burst period is twice lower than on the ground, that corresponds to single wave packet bouncing along the field line. This regime is switched to the other one, with burst period unchanged in the magnetosphere but halved on the ground. In the second regime, no alternating Poynting flux direction is observed. This second regime corresponds to two symmetrically propagating wave packets synchronously meeting at the equator.