Relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt: Differentiating between acceleration mechanisms

By Janet C. Green, M. Kivelson. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. R. Thorne
2. Nigel P. Meredith
3. R. Horne
4. Y. Shprits
5. Wen Li
6. Binbin Ni
7. Jacob Bortnik
8. S. Glauert

In Atmospheric Science

1. R. Thorne
2. J. Albert
3. Nigel P. Meredith
4. R. Horne
5. Y. Shprits
6. Danny Summers
7. Jacob Bortnik
8. S. Glauert

Citations in the corpus

• The dual role of ELF/VLF chorus waves in the acceleration and precipitation of radiation belt electrons (2007, background): “ARTICLE IN PRESS J. Bortnik, R.M. Thorne / Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 69 (2007) 378–386384 Blake, 1997; Green and Kivelson , 2004; Chen et al., 2005; Iles et al., 2006).”
• Timescales for radiation belt electron acceleration and loss due to resonant wave‐particle interactions: 2. Evaluation for VLF chorus, ELF hiss, and electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (2007, background): “[2002], Green et al. [2004], and recently by Clilverd et al.”
• Nonlinear interaction of energetic electrons with large amplitude chorus (2008, background): “[6] Here, we study the wave-particle interactions at L =5 since this is the region where the largest amplitude chorus waves are present [Cully et al., 2008], maximum inferred internal acceleration occurs [ Green and Kivelson, 2004 ], and microbursts are most prevalent [e.g., O’Brien et al., 2003], a”
• Evolution of electron fluxes in the outer radiation belt computed with the VERB code (2009, result): “Addition of energy diffusion produces apronouncedpeakinPSDatL* � 4–6(Figure 2e), which is consistent with a growing number of observational and reanalysis studies [e.g., Green and Kivelson, 2004; Chen et al. ,2 007;Shprits et al., 2007b; Koller et al., 2007].”
• Multidimensional quasi‐linear diffusion of radiation belt electrons (2005, background): “Radial diffusion, particularly when enhanced during storm times, is a potentially crucial source of energization [O’Brien et al., 2003] and also serves to redistribute locally accelerated particles [ Green and Kivelson, 2004 ].”
• On the storm‐time evolution of relativistic electron phase space density in Earth's outer radiation belt (2013, methodology): “These ambiguities are removed by converting flux measurements to PSD as a function of the three adiabatic invariants [e.g., Green and Kivelson, 2004].”
• Testing loss mechanisms capable of rapidly depleting relativistic electron flux in the Earth's outer radiation belt (2004, methodology): “For a discussion of this instrument and associated problems, please see Contos [1997], Selesnick and Blake [2000], Green [2002], and Green and Kivelson [2004] .”
• Timescale for MeV electron microburst loss during geomagnetic storms (2005, background): “... well away from the loss cone [e.g., Horne et al., 2005], while the bounce-averaged pitch angle diffusion rates minimize near the loss cone (Figure 2). Theoretical modeling [Thorne et al., 2005] has shown that the combined effect of pitch angle and energy diffusion leads to the observed developme”
• Simulation of the outer radiation belt electrons near geosynchronous orbit including both radial diffusion and resonant interaction with Whistler‐mode chorus waves (2005, background): “Observed peaks in phase space density [e.g., Green and Kivelson, 2004 ] also suggest that an additional local acceleration mechanism must be included.”