Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm -- ARCS: a NASA Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora

Kristina A Lynch1, James W Labelle2, John Lyon1, Lynn M Kistler3, Roy B Torbert3, Christopher Mouikis3, Robert E Erlandson4, Brian J Anderson4, Romina Nikoukar5, Sarah K. Vines6, Donald L Hampton7, Marilia Samara8, Elizabeth MacDonald9, Matthew D Zettergren10, Kshitija Deshpande11, Shasha Zou12, Meghan Burleigh13, Jacob Bortnik14, David J Knudsen15, Johnathan K Burchill15, Evan G Thomas1, Tucker Evans16 and Robert Clayton1, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (10)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (11)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (12)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (15)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (16)Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States