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 …

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 …

Artificial modification of Earth's radiation belts by ground-based very-low-frequency (VLF) transmitters

B Ni, M Hua, X Gu, S Fu, Z Xiang, X Cao… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Wave-particle interactions play a fundamental role in the dynamic variability of Earth's donut-
shaped radiation belts that are highly populated by magnetically trapped energetic particles …

[HTML][HTML] The relativistic electron-proton telescope (REPT) investigation: Design, operational properties, and science highlights

DN Baker, SG Kanekal, V Hoxie, X Li, AN Jaynes… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope (REPT) instruments were designed to
measure∼ 2 to> 18 MeV electrons and∼ 18 to> 115 MeV protons as part of the science …

Multiyear measurements of radiation belt electrons: Acceleration, transport, and loss

DN Baker, V Hoxie, H Zhao, AN Jaynes… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to clarifying morphological structures of the Earth's radiation belts, it has also
been a major achievement of the Van Allen Probes mission to understand more thoroughly …

Wave–particle interaction effects in the Van Allen belts

DN Baker - Earth, Planets and Space, 2021 - Springer
Discovering such structures as the third radiation belt (or “storage ring”) has been a major
observational achievement of the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes program (renamed the …

Weak turbulence and quasilinear diffusion for relativistic wave-particle interactions via a markov approach

O Allanson, T Elsden, C Watt… - Frontiers in Astronomy and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We derive weak turbulence and quasilinear models for relativistic charged particle dynamics
in pitch-angle and energy space, due to interactions with electromagnetic waves …

[图书][B] Physics of Earth's radiation belts: Theory and observations

HEJ Koskinen, EKJ Kilpua - 2022 - library.oapen.org
This open access book serves as textbook on the physics of the radiation belts surrounding
the Earth. Discovered in 1958 the famous Van Allen Radiation belts were among the first …

SAPS/SAID revisited: A causal relation to the substorm current wedge

E Mishin, Y Nishimura, J Foster - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present multispacecraft observations of enhanced flow/electric field channels in the
inner magnetosphere and conjugate subauroral ionosphere, ie, subauroral polarization …

An investigation of VLF transmitter wave power in the inner radiation belt and slot region

NP Meredith, RB Horne, MA Clilverd… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Signals from man‐made Very Low Frequency (VLF) transmitters, used for communications
with submarines, can leak into space and contribute to the dynamics of energetic electrons …