Quantification of relativistic electron microburst losses during the GEM storms

By T. P. O'Brien, M. Looper, J. Bernard Blake. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2. Nigel P. Meredith
3. Wen Li
4. R. Horne
5. Y. Shprits
6. Binbin Ni
7. Jacob Bortnik
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• 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, methodology): “[6] Whistler-mode chorus can also cause significant pitch angle scattering of electrons into the loss cone leading to precipitation losses from the outer radiation belt [Lorentzen et al., 2001; O’Brien et al., 2004; Summers et al., 2005; Thorne et al., 2005b].”
• Origin of energetic electron precipitation >30 keV into the atmosphere (2010, background): “during geomagnetic storms [Blake et al., 1996; Lorentzen et al., 2001a, 2001b; O’Brien and McPherron, 2003; O’Brien et al., 2004; Thorne et al., 2005].”
• Global model of lower band and upper band chorus from multiple satellite observations (2012, background): “In contrast, storm-time chorus at high latitudes causes microburst precipitation and may lead to losses of radiation belt electrons on the timescale of the order of a day [Lorentzen et al., 2001; O’Brien et al., 2004; Thorne et al., 2005b].”
• Modeling radiation belt electron dynamics during GEM challenge intervals with the DREAM3D diffusion model (2013, background): “The contributing waves include chorus, considered effective outside the plasmasphere [O’Brien et al., 2004; Thorne et al., 2005; Shprits et al., 2007], plasmaspheric hiss 1Science and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.”
• Observation of two distinct, rapid loss mechanisms during the 20 November 2003 radiation belt dropout event (2006, background): “…lasting a few tenths of a second, occur preferentially in the dawn sector, are confined to regions of low plasma density, e.g., outside the plasmapause, and show a strong association with whistler-mode chorus [Blake et al., 1996; Lorentzen et al., 2001; O’Brien et al., 2004; Thorne et al., 2005].”
• The dual role of ELF/VLF chorus waves in the acceleration and precipitation of radiation belt electrons (2007, background): “…the distribution of microbursts in MLT is similar to that of chorus, peaking in the dawn sector (O’Brien et al., 2003) in association with geomagnetic storms, and further that losses are 10–100 times greater during the main phase of the storm than during the recovery phase (O’Brien et al., 2004).”
• Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts: From Discovery to the Van Allen Probes Era (2019, background): “Nonlinear interactions between the rising tone chorus and energetic electrons are suggested to lead to the electron microbursts observed by various LEO satellites (e.g., Breneman et al., 2017; Hikishima et al., 2010; Lorentzen et al., 2001; O'Brien et al., 2004; Shumko et al., 2018).”
• Acceleration mechanism responsible for the formation of the new radiation belt during the 2003 Halloween solar storm (2006, background): “The loss of relativistic electrons is due to pitch-angle scattering by EMIC waves [Thorne and Kennel, 1971; Lyons and Thorne, 1972; Meredith et al., 2003], chorus waves outside the plasmapause [O’Brien et al., 2004; Thorne et al., 2005b] and plasmaspheric hiss [Abel and Thorne, 1998].”
• Global distribution of whistler‐mode chorus waves observed on the THEMIS spacecraft (2009, background): “…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’Brien et al., 2004; Horne et al., 2005; Shprits et al., 2006; Thorne et al., 2005, 2007; Li et al., 2007], but better information is required on…”
• Time dependent radial diffusion modeling of relativistic electrons with realistic loss rates (2004, background): “, 2001] which is most pronounced during the main phase of a storm [O’Brien et al., 2004].”
• On the storm‐time evolution of relativistic electron phase space density in Earth's outer radiation belt (2013, background): “, 2009], whistler-mode chorus [e.g., Horne and Thorne, 2003; O’Brien et al., 2004; Bortnik and Thorne, 2007], whistler waves originating from lightning and ground-based VLF transmitters [e.”