Space weather effects in the Earth's radiation belts

DN Baker, PJ Erickson, JF Fennell, JC Foster… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
The first major scientific discovery of the Space Age was that the Earth is enshrouded in
toroids, or belts, of very high-energy magnetically trapped charged particles. Early …

The impact of cold electrons and cold ions in magnetospheric physics

GL Delzanno, JE Borovsky, MG Henderson… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
A review of the impact of the cold-ion and cold-electron populations in the Earth's
magnetosphere is presented. The cold populations are defined by total energy less than …

Science objectives and rationale for the radiation belt storm probes mission

BH Mauk, NJ Fox, SG Kanekal, RL Kessel… - The van Allen probes …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission addresses how
populations of high energy charged particles are created, vary, and evolve in space …

Timescales for radiation belt electron acceleration and loss due to resonant wave‐particle interactions: 2. Evaluation for VLF chorus, ELF hiss, and electromagnetic ion …

D Summers, B Ni, NP Meredith - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Outer zone radiation belt electrons can undergo gyroresonant interaction with various
magnetospheric wave modes including whistler‐mode chorus outside the plasmasphere …

Timescale for radiation belt electron acceleration by whistler mode chorus waves

RB Horne, RM Thorne, SA Glauert… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Electron acceleration inside the Earth's magnetosphere is required to explain increases in
the∼ MeV radiation belt electron flux during magnetically disturbed periods. Recent studies …

Review of modeling of losses and sources of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt II: Local acceleration and loss

YY Shprits, DA Subbotin, NP Meredith… - Journal of atmospheric …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the modeling of local acceleration and loss processes in the outer
radiation belt. We begin by reviewing the statistical properties of waves that violate the first …

Statistical analysis of relativistic electron energies for cyclotron resonance with EMIC waves observed on CRRES

NP Meredith, RM Thorne, RB Horne… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves which propagate at frequencies below the
proton gyrofrequency can undergo cyclotron resonant interactions with relativistic electrons …

Electron acceleration in the Van Allen radiation belts by fast magnetosonic waves

RB Horne, RM Thorne, SA Glauert… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Local acceleration is required to explain electron flux increases in the outer Van Allen
radiation belt during magnetic storms. Here we show that fast magnetosonic waves …

Global distribution of whistler‐mode chorus waves observed on the THEMIS spacecraft

W Li, RM Thorne, V Angelopoulos… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Whistler mode chorus waves are receiving increased scientific attention due to their
important roles in both acceleration and loss processes of radiation belt electrons. A new …

Substorm dependence of plasmaspheric hiss

NP Meredith, RB Horne, RM Thorne… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze wave and particle data from the CRRES satellite to determine the variability of
plasmaspheric hiss (0.1< f< 2 kHz) with respect to substorm activity as measured by AE …