We have identified for the first time an energy-time dispersion of precipitating electron flux in a pulsating aurora patch, ranging from 6.7 keV to 580 keV, through simultaneous in-situ observations of sub-relativistic electrons of microburst precipitations and lower-energy electrons using the LAMP sounding rocket launched from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. Our observations reveal that precipitating electrons with energies of 180-320 keV were observed first, followed by 250-580 keV electrons 0-30 ms later, and finally, after 500-1000 ms, 6.7-14.6 keV electrons were observed. The identified energy-time dispersion is consistent with the theoretical estimation that the relativistic electron microbursts are a high-energy tail of pulsating aurora electrons, which are caused by chorus waves propagating along the field line.

We report on the relationship between pulsating aurora and relativistic electron microburst using simultaneous observations of ground-based fast auroral imagers with the FIREBIRD-Ⅱ CubeSat for the first time. We conducted a detailed analysis of an event on October 8, 2018 and found that the occurrence of a pulsating aurora with internal modulations corresponds to the flux enhancement of electrons with energy ranging from 219.7 to 984.95 keV detected with Flight Unit 4, one of FIREBIRD’s CubeSat, with a time delay of 525 ms. Assuming that the pulsating aurora was produced by 10-keV electrons, we suggest that this time difference of 525 ms is consistent with the theory by Miyoshi et al. (2020) that a pulsating aurora and microburst occur due to the chorus waves at different latitudes along the same field line.