Evolution and slow decay of an unusual narrow ring of relativistic electrons near L ~ 3.2 following the September 2012 magnetic storm

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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 (2013, background): “…observations to demonstrate convincingly that hiss explains the subsequent intensity and pitch angle evolution of these storage ring particles (Thorne et al. 2013); and finally, we have witnessed strong and compelling evidence that a local waveparticle acceleration process led to the prompt…”
Statistical properties of plasmaspheric hiss derived from Van Allen Probes data and their effects on radiation belt electron dynamics (2015, methodology): “…for efficient electron precipitation from tens to hundreds of keV in the outer plasmasphere [e.g., Li et al., 2014] and is also responsible for the gradual decay of the recently reported “unusual narrow ring” of ~MeV electrons in the radiation belts [Baker et al., 2013; Thorne et al., 2013].”