Earth's Van Allen radiation belts: From discovery to the Van Allen Probes era

W Li, MK Hudson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Discovery of the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts by instruments flown on Explorer 1 in 1958
was the first major discovery of the Space Age. The observation of distinct inner and outer …

Survey of magnetosonic waves and proton ring distributions in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

NP Meredith, RB Horne… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fast magnetosonic waves can lead to the local acceleration of electrons from∼ 10 keV up to
a few MeV on a timescale of 1–2 d and may play an important role in radiation belt …

Electron scattering by magnetosonic waves in the inner magnetosphere

Q Ma, W Li, RM Thorne, J Bortnik… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the importance of electron scattering by magnetosonic waves in the Earth's
inner magnetosphere. A statistical survey of the magnetosonic wave amplitude and wave …

Transit time scattering of energetic electrons due to equatorially confined magnetosonic waves

J Bortnik, RM Thorne - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent analysis using quasilinear theory (QLT) has shown that magnetosonic (MS) waves
are able to accelerate electrons to relativistic energies on fast time scales (∼ 1 day) …

Augmented empirical models of plasmaspheric density and electric field using IMAGE and CLUSTER data

BW Reinisch, MB Moldwin, RE Denton… - Space Science …, 2009 - Springer
Empirical models for the plasma densities in the inner magnetosphere, including
plasmasphere and polar magnetosphere, have been in the past derived from in situ …

Simultaneous occurrence of four magnetospheric wave modes and the resultant combined scattering effect on radiation belt electrons

YW Zhao, Z Xiang, XD Gu, BB Ni, X Ma… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - eppcgs.org
We report a representative concurrent event of four wave modes at L≈ 5.0, including
electrostatic electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves, exohiss, magnetosonic (MS) waves …

Extremely intense ELF magnetosonic waves: A survey of polar observations

BT Tsurutani, BJ Falkowski, JS Pickett… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A Polar magnetosonic wave (MSW) study was conducted using 1 year of 1996–1997 data
(during solar minimum). Waves at and inside the plasmasphere were detected at all local …

Statistical investigation of the frequency dependence of the chorus source mechanism of plasmaspheric hiss

NP Meredith, J Bortnik, RB Horne, W Li… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We use data from eight satellites to statistically examine the role of chorus as a potential
source of plasmaspheric hiss. We find that the strong equatorial (| λm|< 6°) chorus wave …

Systematic analysis of occurrence of equatorial noise emissions using 10 years of data from the Cluster mission

Z Hrbáčková, O Santolík, F Němec… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We report results of a systematic analysis of equatorial noise (EN) emissions which are also
known as fast magnetosonic waves. EN occurs in the vicinity of the geomagnetic equator at …

Propagation of equatorial noise to low altitudes: Decoupling from the magnetosonic mode

O Santolík, M Parrot, F Němec - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Equatorial noise (often phenomenologically described as magnetosonic waves in the
literature) is a natural electromagnetic emission, which is generated by instability of ion …