The plasma environment inside geostationary orbit: A Van Allen Probes HOPE survey

PA Fernandes, BA Larsen, MF Thomsen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The two full precessions in local time completed by the Van Allen Probes enable global
specification of the near‐equatorial inner magnetosphere plasma environment …

Cross‐scale observations of the 2015 St. Patrick's day storm: THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, and TWINS

J Goldstein, V Angelopoulos… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present cross‐scale magnetospheric observations of the 17 March 2015 (St. Patrick's
Day) storm, by Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms …

Ion nose spectral structures observed by the Van Allen Probes

CP Ferradas, JC Zhang, HE Spence… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a statistical study of nose‐like structures observed in energetic hydrogen,
helium, and oxygen ions near the inner edge of the plasma sheet. Nose structures are …

Direct evidence of drift‐compressional wave generation in the Earth's magnetosphere detected by Arase

K Yamamoto, AV Rubtsov, DV Kostarev… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first direct evidence of an in situ excitation of drift‐compressional waves
driven by drift resonance with ring current protons in the magnetosphere. Compressional …

The influence of the inner magnetospheric electric field on plasma sheet access

CP Ferradas, SA Thaller, MC Fok… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents observations of the large‐scale electric field and H+ fluxes over the
entire Van Allen Probes mission duration. These observations are used to determine the …

Sustained oxygen spectral gaps and their dynamic evolution in the inner magnetosphere

C Yue, XZ Zhou, J Bortnik, QG Zong, Y Li… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Van Allen Probes observations of ion spectra often show a sustained gap within a
very narrow energy range throughout the full orbit. To understand their formation …

Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures during a geomagnetic storm: Observations and modeling

CP Ferradas, JC Zhang, HE Spence… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using the Van Allen Probes/Helium, Oxygen, Proton, and Electron mass
spectrometer, we perform a case study of the temporal evolution of ion spectral structures …

Average ring current response to solar wind drivers: Statistical analysis of 61 days of ENA images

J Goldstein, PW Valek, DJ McComas… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first determination of the average global and regional response of
ring current (RC) flux intensity versus four key solar wind (SW) and interplanetary magnetic …

MLT‐dependence of sustained spectral gaps of proton and oxygen in the inner magnetosphere

C Yue, Y Liu, X Zhou, QG Zong… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To examine the species dependence of the sustained energy spectrum gaps, in this letter,
we analyzed the magnetic local time distribution of sustained proton and oxygen gaps and …

Comparison of electron loss models in the inner magnetosphere during the 2013 St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm

CP Ferradas, VK Jordanova… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electrons with energies in the keV range play an important role in the dynamics of the inner
magnetosphere. Therefore, accurately modeling electron fluxes in this region is of great …