The electric and magnetic field instrument suite and integrated science (EMFISIS) on RBSP

CA Kletzing, WS Kurth, M Acuna, RJ MacDowall… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS)
investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) …

Wave–particle interactions in the Earth's magnetosphere

RM Thorne, J Bortnik, W Li, Q Ma - Magnetospheres in the solar …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's radiation belt electrons exhibit pronounced dynamic variability in response to solar
activity and resultant changes in the solar wind. The nonadiabatic variability of radiation belt …

Radiation belt dynamics: The importance of wave‐particle interactions

RM Thorne - Geophysical Research Letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The flux of energetic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt can vary by several orders of
magnitude over time scales less than a day, in response to changes in properties of the …

Global distribution of wave amplitudes and wave normal angles of chorus waves using THEMIS wave observations

W Li, J Bortnik, RM Thorne… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The global distribution of chorus wave amplitudes and their wave normal angles is
investigated using high‐resolution wave spectra and waveform data from THEMIS for lower …

Wave-driven butterfly distribution of Van Allen belt relativistic electrons

F Xiao, C Yang, Z Su, Q Zhou, Z He, Y He… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Van Allen radiation belts consist of relativistic electrons trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
Trapped electrons often drift azimuthally around Earth and display a butterfly pitch angle …

THEMIS analysis of observed equatorial electron distributions responsible for the chorus excitation

W Li, RM Thorne, Y Nishimura, J Bortnik… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A statistical survey of plasma densities and electron distributions (0.5–100 keV) is performed
using data obtained from the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During …

Fine structure of large‐amplitude chorus wave packets

O Santolík, CA Kletzing, WS Kurth… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Whistler mode chorus waves in the outer Van Allen belt can have consequences for
acceleration of relativistic electrons through wave‐particle interactions. New multicomponent …

Electron dynamics in a chorus wave field generated from particle‐in‐cell simulations

Z An, Y Wu, X Tao - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How to properly describe resonant interactions between electrons and quasi‐coherent
chorus waves is still an open question. Previous studies have progressed from modeling …

Formation process of relativistic electron flux through interaction with chorus emissions in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

Y Omura, Y Miyashita, M Yoshikawa… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We perform test particle simulations of energetic electrons interacting with whistler mode
chorus emissions. We compute trajectories of a large number of electrons forming a delta …

Nonlinear interactions between radiation belt electrons and chorus waves: Dependence on wave amplitude modulation

L Gan, W Li, Q Ma, JM Albert… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use test particle simulations to model the interaction between radiation belt electrons
and whistler mode chorus waves by focusing on wave amplitude modulations. We quantify …