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Measurements of the altitude of auroral lower borders using instrumentation having high spatial and temporal resolution yields the result that the average heights of pulsating auroras are lower than previous measurements indicate. Primary electric energy in the range 10 kev to 60 kev is required to explain the results.
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Brown et al. (1976) studied this question.
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