Unusual stable trapping of the ultrarelativistic electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts

By Y. Shprits, D. Subbotin, A. Drozdov, M. Usanova, A. Kellerman, K. Orlova, D. N. Baker, Drew L. Turner, Kyung‐Chan Kim. Nature Physics, 2013

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Gradual diffusion and punctuated phase space density enhancements of highly relativistic electrons: Van Allen Probes observations (2014, background): “…the Van Allen Probes) began to reveal new and unexpected things about the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s radiation belts, including the existence of a third Van Allen belt dubbed the relativistic electron “storage ring” [Baker et al., 2013; Thorne et al., 2013a; Shprits et al., 2013].”
Particle Dynamics in the Earth's Radiation Belts: Review of Current Research and Open Questions (2020, unknown): “…2014; Usanova et al., 2014, 2016; Kersten et al., 2014; Blum et al., 2015; Clilverd et al., 2015; Woodger et al., 2015, 2018; Colpitts et al., 2016; Shprits et al., 2008a, 2013, 2016, 2017; Hendry et al., 2016, 2019; Zhang et al., 2016; Aseev et al., 2017; Drozdov, Shprits, Usanova, et al., 2017;…”
Circulation of Heavy Ions and Their Dynamical Effects in the Magnetosphere: Recent Observations and Models (2014, background): “Shprits et al. (2013) demonstrated that EMIC waves play a crucial role for the dynamics of the ultrarelativistic populations in the radiation belts.”
Van Allen probes, NOAA, GOES, and ground observations of an intense EMIC wave event extending over 12 h in magnetic local time (2015, background): “Figure 5c in Silin et al. [2011] (case 3 from their Table 1) shows an example situation for warm plasma EMIC waves excited outside the plasmapause at L = 4.”