Outer zone relativistic electron acceleration associated with substorm‐enhanced whistler mode chorus

By Nigel P. Meredith, R. Horne, R. Iles, R. Thorne, D. Heynderickx, R. R. Anderson. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

In Geophysics

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

Citations in the corpus

• Modeling radiation belt electron dynamics during GEM challenge intervals with the DREAM3D diffusion model (2013, background): “…for radiation belt electrons is local heating by wave particle interactions that violate the first adiabatic invariant [Horne and Thorne, 1998; Meredith et al., 2002; Horne et al., 2005], for example the heating from whistler mode chorus and magnetosonic waves [Temerin et al., 1994; Li et…”
• Electron acceleration in the Van Allen radiation belts by fast magnetosonic waves (2007, background): “Acceleration by whistler mode chorus waves is an important mechanism for local acceleration [Horne and Thorne, 1998; Summers et al., 1998, 2002; Meredith et al., 2002; Horne et al., 2003, 2005a], and was shown to be particularly effective in accelerating electrons during the 2003 Halloween magneti”
• The dual role of ELF/VLF chorus waves in the acceleration and precipitation of radiation belt electrons (2007, background): “Similar association of acceleration periods with chorus have been observed from space (Meredith et al., 2002a, b; Miyoshi et al., 2003; Meredith et al., 2003b).”
• Modeling the propagation characteristics of chorus using CRRES suprathermal electron fluxes (2007, unknown): “0148-0227/07/2006JA012237$09.00 A08204 1 of 13 energies [e.g., Meredith et al., 2002a; Horne and Thorne, 2003].”
• Evolution of energetic electron pitch angle distributions during storm time electron acceleration to megaelectronvolt energies (2003, methodology): “Typically, 2 fpe/fce 5 during the event [Meredith et al., 2002b].”
• THEMIS analysis of observed equatorial electron distributions responsible for the chorus excitation (2010, background): “Chorus emissions are predominantly observed during geomagnetically disturbed conditions [Tsurutani and Smith, 1974; Meredith et al., 2001, 2003; Miyoshi et al., 2003] in association with enhanced fluxes of suprathermal electrons [Anderson and Maeda, 1977; Meredith et al., 2002; Miyoshi et al., 200”
• 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): “Various observational studies [e.g., Meredith et al., 2002a, 2002b, 2003b; Miyoshi et al., 2003; Smith et al., 2004; Iles et al., 2006] provide evidence for chorus-driven electron acceleration to relativistic energies in regions outside the plasmasphere during geomagnetically disturbed periods.”
• Space Weather Effects in the Earth’s Radiation Belts (2018, background): “Meredith et al. (2002) looked at several example periods of outer belt electron acceleration during both strong and weak storm conditions and determined that prolonged substorm activity is a requirement for effective enhancement of relativistic electrons.”
• Global distribution of whistler‐mode chorus waves observed on the THEMIS spacecraft (2009, background): “Recently, whistler-mode chorus waves have received increased attention due to their important roles in both acceleration and loss of energetic radiation belt electrons [e.g., Horne and Thorne, 1998, 2003; Summers et al., 1998, 2002, 2007; Lorentzen et al., 2001; Meredith et al., 2002, 2003; O’Brie”
• Relativistic electron acceleration and precipitation during resonant interactions with whistler‐mode chorus (2003, background): “[5] We assume a wave source region near L = 4.5 on the equator, which corresponds to the region where intense chorus emissions are observed during storms [Meredith et al., 2002a].”
• Energetic outer zone electron loss timescalesduring low geomagnetic activity (2006, background): “These events are known to be associated with enhanced levels of magnetic activity, enhanced chorus activity, and enhanced fluxes of seed electrons [e.g., Meredith et al., 2002a, 2002b, 2003b; Miyoshi et al., 2003].”
• Substorm dependence of plasmaspheric hiss (2004, background): “…al., 2000] which may be subsequently energized to MeV energies by substorm-enhanced whistler mode chorus waves [e.g., Horne and Thorne, 1998, 2003; Summers et al., 1998, 2002, 2004; Summers and Ma, 2000; Horne, 2002; Meredith et al., 2002a, 2003a, 2003c; Miyoshi et al., 2003; O’Brien et al., 2003].”