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Acceleration and loss of relativistic electrons during geomagnetic storms: ACCELERATION AND LOSS OF RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS
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This article is published in Geophysical Research Letters.The article was published on 2003-05-15. It has received 746 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acceleration & Geomagnetic storm.read more
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Science Objectives and Rationale for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
TL;DR: The NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission as discussed by the authors uses two spacecraft making in situ measurements for at least 2 years in nearly the same highly elliptical, low inclination orbits (1.1×5.8 RE, 10∘).
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Timescale for radiation belt electron acceleration by whistler mode chorus waves
Richard B. Horne,Richard M. Thorne,Sarah A. Glauert,Jay M. Albert,Nigel P. Meredith,Nigel P. Meredith,Roger R. Anderson +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present CRRES data on the spatial distribution of chorus emissions during active conditions and calculate the pitch angle and energy diffusion rates in three magnetic local time (MLT) sectors and obtain a timescale for acceleration.
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Acceleration and loss of relativistic electrons during small geomagnetic storms.
TL;DR: Surprisingly, small storms can be equally as effective as large storms at enhancing and depleting fluxes and neither acceleration nor loss mechanisms scale with storm drivers as would be expected.
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Electron Acceleration in the Heart of the Van Allen Radiation Belts
Geoffrey D. Reeves,Harlan E. Spence,Michael G. Henderson,Steven K. Morley,R. H. W. Friedel,Herbert O. Funsten,Daniel N. Baker,Shrikanth Kanekal,J. B. Blake,J. F. Fennell,Seth G. Claudepierre,Richard M. Thorne,Drew Turner,Craig Kletzing,William S. Kurth,Brian A. Larsen,J. T. Niehof +16 more
TL;DR: Measurements from NASA’s Van Allen Radiation Belt Storm Probes are reported that clearly distinguish between the two types of acceleration, and the observed radial profiles of phase space density are characteristic of local acceleration in the heart of the radiation belts and are inconsistent with a predominantly radial acceleration process.
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Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission
Harlan E. Spence,Geoffrey D. Reeves,Daniel N. Baker,J. B. Blake,M. Bolton,Sebastien Bourdarie,Anthony A. Chan,Seth G. Claudepierre,J. H. Clemmons,J. P. Cravens,Scot R. Elkington,J. F. Fennell,Reiner Friedel,Herbert O. Funsten,Jerry Goldstein,Janet C. Green,A. A. Guthrie,Michael G. Henderson,Richard B. Horne,Mary K. Hudson,J.-M. Jahn,Vania K. Jordanova,Shrikanth Kanekal,B. W. Klatt,B. W. Klatt,Brian A. Larsen,Xinlin Li,Elizabeth MacDonald,Ian R. Mann,J. T. Niehof,T. P. O'Brien,Terrance Onsager,D. Salvaggio,Ruth M. Skoug,S. Smith,L. L. Suther,Michelle F. Thomsen,Richard M. Thorne +37 more
TL;DR: The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)-Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) suite contains an innovative complement of particle instruments to ensure the highest quality measurements ever made in the inner magnetosphere and radiation belts as mentioned in this paper.
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What is a geomagnetic storm
Walter D. Gonzalez,J. A. Joselyn,Yohsuke Kamide,H. W. Kroehl,Gordon Rostoker,Bruce T. Tsurutani,Vytenis M. Vasyliunas +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt is made to define a geomagnetic storm as an interval of time when a sufficiently intense and long-lasting interplanetary convection electric field leads, through a substantial energization in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system, to an intensified ring current sufficiently strong to exceed some key threshold of the quantifying storm time Dst index.
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Relativistic electron dynamics in the inner magnetosphere — a review
TL;DR: A review and comparison of the current state of research into relativistic electron dynamics, covering simple diffusion, substorm acceleration, ULF wave acceleration, recirculation by ULF waves or plasmaspheric hiss is given in this paper.
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Fully adiabatic changes in storm time relativistic electron fluxes
Hee-Jeong Kim,Anthony A. Chan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use modular magnetospheric magnetic field models to represent the magnetic field configuration before and during the storm, and use Liouville's theorem to evolve the prestorm electron flux.
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Which magnetic storms produce relativistic electrons at geosynchronous orbit
T. P. O'Brien,Robert L. McPherron,Didier Sornette,Geoffrey D. Reeves,Reiner Friedel,Howard J. Singer +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a recently developed statistical technique to produce an hourly time series of relativistic electron conditions at local noon along geosynchronous orbit using several geOSynchronous monitors.
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Relativistic electrons and magnetic storms: 1992-1995
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between relativistic electron enhancements at geosynchronous orbit and magnetic storms measured by the Dst index was examined and it was found that the maximum electron flux and the maximum ring current intensity are roughly correlated but that there is considerable variation.