Oblique whistler-mode waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere: Energy distribution, origins, and role in radiation belt dynamics

A Artemyev, O Agapitov, D Mourenas… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper we review recent spacecraft observations of oblique whistler-mode waves in
the Earth's inner magnetosphere as well as the various consequences of the presence of …

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 …

Resonant scattering of outer zone relativistic electrons by multiband EMIC waves and resultant electron loss time scales

B Ni, X Cao, Z Zou, C Zhou, X Gu… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our understanding of the role of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in
radiation belt electron dynamics, we perform a comprehensive analysis of EMIC wave …

Radiation belt electron acceleration by chorus waves during the 17 March 2013 storm

W Li, RM Thorne, Q Ma, B Ni, J Bortnik… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Local acceleration driven by whistler‐mode chorus waves is fundamentally important for
accelerating seed electron populations to highly relativistic energies in the outer radiation …

Global model of lower band and upper band chorus from multiple satellite observations

NP Meredith, RB Horne, A Sicard‐Piet… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Gyroresonant wave particle interactions with whistler mode chorus play a fundamental role
in the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts and inner magnetosphere, affecting both the …

Gyroresonant wave-particle interactions with chorus waves during extreme depletions of plasma density in the Van Allen radiation belts

HJ Allison, YY Shprits, IS Zhelavskaya, D Wang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Van Allen Probes mission provides unique measurements of the most energetic
radiation belt electrons at ultrarelativistic energies. Simultaneous observations of plasma …

Evolution and slow decay of an unusual narrow ring of relativistic electrons near L~ 3.2 following the September 2012 magnetic storm

RM Thorne, W Li, B Ni, Q Ma, J Bortnik… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A quantitative analysis is performed on the decay of an unusual ring of relativistic electrons
between 3 and 3.5 RE, which was observed by the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope …

Very-Low-Frequency transmitters bifurcate energetic electron belt in near-earth space

M Hua, W Li, B Ni, Q Ma, A Green, X Shen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Very-Low-Frequency (VLF) transmitters operate worldwide mostly at frequencies of
10–30 kilohertz for submarine communications. While it has been of intense scientific …

Constructing the global distribution of chorus wave intensity using measurements of electrons by the POES satellites and waves by the Van Allen Probes

W Li, B Ni, RM Thorne, J Bortnik… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We adopt a physics‐based technique to infer chorus wave amplitudes from the low‐altitude
electron population (30–100 keV) measured by multiple Polar Orbiting Environmental …

Quantitative evaluation of radial diffusion and local acceleration processes during GEM challenge events

Q Ma, W Li, J Bortnik, RM Thorne, X Chu… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate the radiation belt electron flux enhancements during selected Geospace
Environment Modeling (GEM) challenge events to quantitatively compare the major …