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 …

Space plasma physics: A review

BT Tsurutani, GP Zank, VJ Sterken… - … on Plasma Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the ever-present solar wind, our vast solar system is full of plasmas. The turbulent
solar wind, together with sporadic solar eruptions, introduces various space plasma …

Electron acceleration in the Van Allen radiation belts by fast magnetosonic waves

RB Horne, RM Thorne, SA Glauert… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Local acceleration is required to explain electron flux increases in the outer Van Allen
radiation belt during magnetic storms. Here we show that fast magnetosonic waves …

Global simulation of magnetosonic wave instability in the storm time magnetosphere

L Chen, RM Thorne, VK Jordanova… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Coupling between the Rice Convection Model and Ring Current–Atmospheric Interactions
Model codes is used to simulate the dynamical evolution of ring current ion phase space …

Survey of magnetosonic waves and proton ring distributions in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

NP Meredith, RB Horne… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fast magnetosonic waves can lead to the local acceleration of electrons from∼ 10 keV up to
a few MeV on a timescale of 1–2 d and may play an important role in radiation belt …

Electron scattering by magnetosonic waves in the inner magnetosphere

Q Ma, W Li, RM Thorne, J Bortnik… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the importance of electron scattering by magnetosonic waves in the Earth's
inner magnetosphere. A statistical survey of the magnetosonic wave amplitude and wave …

Transit time scattering of energetic electrons due to equatorially confined magnetosonic waves

J Bortnik, RM Thorne - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent analysis using quasilinear theory (QLT) has shown that magnetosonic (MS) waves
are able to accelerate electrons to relativistic energies on fast time scales (∼ 1 day) …

Relativistic electron loss timescales in the slot region

NP Meredith, RB Horne, SA Glauert… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations show that the decay rate of relativistic electrons measured at low
altitudes in the slot region at L= 2 is an order of magnitude shorter than theoretical estimates …

Simultaneous occurrence of four magnetospheric wave modes and the resultant combined scattering effect on radiation belt electrons

YW Zhao, Z Xiang, XD Gu, BB Ni, X Ma… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - eppcgs.org
We report a representative concurrent event of four wave modes at L≈ 5.0, including
electrostatic electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves, exohiss, magnetosonic (MS) waves …

Extremely intense ELF magnetosonic waves: A survey of polar observations

BT Tsurutani, BJ Falkowski, JS Pickett… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A Polar magnetosonic wave (MSW) study was conducted using 1 year of 1996–1997 data
(during solar minimum). Waves at and inside the plasmasphere were detected at all local …