Corotating solar wind streams and recurrent geomagnetic activity: A review

BT Tsurutani, WD Gonzalez… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Solar wind fast streams emanating from solar coronal holes cause recurrent, moderate
intensity geomagnetic activity at Earth. Intense magnetic field regions called Corotating …

Origins of the Earth's diffuse auroral precipitation

B Ni, RM Thorne, X Zhang, J Bortnik, Z Pu, L Xie… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
The Earth's diffuse auroral precipitation provides the major source of energy input into the
nightside upper atmosphere and acts as an essential linkage of the magnetosphere …

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 …

The Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope (REPT) instrument on board the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) spacecraft: Characterization of Earth's radiation belt …

DN Baker, SG Kanekal, VC Hoxie, S Batiste… - The van allen probes …, 2014 - Springer
Particle acceleration and loss in the million electron Volt (MeV) energy range (and above) is
the least understood aspect of radiation belt science. In order to measure cleanly and …

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 radiation belt relativistic electron losses

RM Millan, RM Thorne - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial …, 2007 - Elsevier
We present a brief review of radiation belt electron losses which are vitally important for
controlling the dynamics of the radiation belts. A historical overview of early observations is …

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 …

Analytic expressions for ULF wave radiation belt radial diffusion coefficients

LG Ozeke, IR Mann, KR Murphy… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present analytic expressions for ULF wave‐derived radiation belt radial diffusion
coefficients, as a function of L and Kp, which can easily be incorporated into global radiation …