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 …

Particle dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts: Review of current research and open questions

JF Ripoll, SG Claudepierre… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade transformed our observational understanding of energetic particle
processes in near‐Earth space. An unprecedented suite of observational systems was in …

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 …

Magnetotail dipolarization fronts and particle acceleration: A review

H Fu, EE Grigorenko, C Gabrielse, C Liu, S Lu… - Science China Earth …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, the particle acceleration processes around magnetotail dipolarization fronts
(DFs) were reviewed. We summarize the spacecraft observations (including Cluster …

[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 …

Radiation belt electron acceleration during the 17 March 2015 geomagnetic storm: Observations and simulations

W Li, Q Ma, RM Thorne, J Bortnik… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Various physical processes are known to cause acceleration, loss, and transport of
energetic electrons in the Earth's radiation belts, but their quantitative roles in different time …

The magnetic electron ion spectrometer: A review of on-orbit sensor performance, data, operations, and science

SG Claudepierre, JB Blake, AJ Boyd… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Measurements from NASA's Van Allen Probes have transformed our understanding of the
dynamics of Earth's geomagnetically-trapped, charged particle radiation. The Van Allen …

Prompt acceleration of magnetospheric electrons to ultrarelativistic energies by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock

SG Kanekal, DN Baker, JF Fennell… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Trapped electrons in Earth's outer Van Allen radiation belt are influenced profoundly by
solar phenomena such as high‐speed solar wind streams, coronal mass ejections (CME) …

Competition between outer zone electron scattering by plasmaspheric hiss and magnetosonic waves

B Ni, M Hua, R Zhou, J Yi, S Fu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We quantify the electron scattering effects of simultaneous plasmaspheric hiss and
magnetosonic waves that occurred in two neighboring time intervals but with distinct wave …