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 …

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) …

Rapid local acceleration of relativistic radiation-belt electrons by magnetospheric chorus

RM Thorne, W Li, B Ni, Q Ma, J Bortnik, L Chen… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Recent analysis of satellite data obtained during the 9 October 2012 geomagnetic storm
identified the development of peaks in electron phase space density, which are compelling …

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 …

Energetic particle influence on the Earth's atmosphere

IA Mironova, KL Aplin, F Arnold, GA Bazilevskaya… - Space science …, 2015 - Springer
This manuscript gives an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the effects of energetic
particle precipitation (EPP) onto the whole atmosphere, from the lower thermosphere …

Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves

S Kasahara, Y Miyoshi, S Yokota, T Mitani, Y Kasahara… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Auroral substorms, dynamic phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere at night, are
caused by global reconfiguration of the magnetosphere, which releases stored solar wind …

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 …

Relativistic electron microbursts as high‐energy tail of pulsating aurora electrons

Y Miyoshi, S Saito, S Kurita, K Asamura… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, by simulating the wave‐particle interactions, we show that subrelativistic/
relativistic electron microbursts form the high‐energy tail of pulsating aurora (PsA). Whistler …

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 …