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Review of radiation belt relativistic electron losses
Robyn Millan,Richard M. Thorne +1 more
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In this article, a brief review of radiation belt electron losses is presented, which are vitally important for controlling the dynamics of the radiation belts and their relative importance to the overall rate of loss.About:
This article is published in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 460 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Van Allen radiation belt.read more
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The THEMIS Mission
TL;DR: The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission is the fifth NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX), launched on February 17, 2007 to determine the trigger and large-scale evolution of substorms as discussed by the authors.
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The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP
Craig Kletzing,William S. Kurth,Mario H. Acuña,Robert J. MacDowall,Roy B. Torbert,T. F. Averkamp,D. Bodet,Scott R. Bounds,M. Chutter,John E. P. Connerney,D. Crawford,J. S. Dolan,R. T. Dvorsky,George Hospodarsky,J. Howard,Vania K. Jordanova,R. A. Johnson,D. L. Kirchner,B. T. Mokrzycki,G. Needell,J. Odom,D. Mark,R. F. Pfaff,J. R. Phillips,Chris Piker,S. L. Remington,Douglas E. Rowland,Ondrej Santolik,R. Schnurr,D. Sheppard,Charles W. Smith,Richard M. Thorne,J. Tyler +32 more
TL;DR: The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequency magnetic field measurements to understand radiation belt acceleration, loss, and transport.
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Radiation belt dynamics: The importance of wave-particle interactions
TL;DR: A review of recent advances in both understanding and global modeling of wave-particle interactions has led to a paradigm shift in our understanding of electron acceleration in the radiation belts; internal local acceleration, rather than radial diffusion, appears to be the dominant acceleration process during the recovery phase of magnetic storms.
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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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Review of modeling of losses and sources of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt II: Local acceleration and loss
TL;DR: In this article, the statistical properties of waves that violate the first and second adiabatic invariants are reviewed, leading to the loss and acceleration of high energy electrons in the outer radiation belt, and it is shown that statistically, the net effect of chorus waves is acceleration at MeV energies and loss at hundreds of keV energies.
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Limit on stably trapped particle fluxes
Charles F. Kennel,H. E. Petschek +1 more
TL;DR: The limit on stably trapped particle fluxes determined theoretically and compared with data from Explorer satellites was first established in this paper, and the limit was later confirmed by the International Journal of Astronautics.
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Relativistic theory of wave‐particle resonant diffusion with application to electron acceleration in the magnetosphere
TL;DR: In this paper, a model was proposed to account for the observed variations in the flux and pitch angle distribution of relativistic electrons during geomagnetic storms by combining pitch angle scattering by intense EMIC waves and energy diffusion during cyclotron resonant interaction with whistler mode chorus outside the plasmasphere.
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