Earth's Van Allen radiation belts: From discovery to the Van Allen Probes era

W Li, MK Hudson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Discovery of the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts by instruments flown on Explorer 1 in 1958
was the first major discovery of the Space Age. The observation of distinct inner and outer …

Oblique whistler-mode waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere: Energy distribution, origins, and role in radiation belt dynamics

A Artemyev, O Agapitov, D Mourenas… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper we review recent spacecraft observations of oblique whistler-mode waves in
the Earth's inner magnetosphere as well as the various consequences of the presence of …

Phase decoherence within intense chorus wave packets constrains the efficiency of nonlinear resonant electron acceleration

XJ Zhang, O Agapitov, AV Artemyev… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electron resonant interaction with whistler mode waves is traditionally considered as one of
the main drivers of radiation belt dynamics. The two main theoretical concepts available for …

Electron dynamics in a chorus wave field generated from particle‐in‐cell simulations

Z An, Y Wu, X Tao - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How to properly describe resonant interactions between electrons and quasi‐coherent
chorus waves is still an open question. Previous studies have progressed from modeling …

Van Allen Probes observations of prompt MeV radiation belt electron acceleration in nonlinear interactions with VLF chorus

JC Foster, PJ Erickson, Y Omura… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Prompt recovery of MeV (millions of electron Volts) electron populations in the poststorm
core of the outer terrestrial radiation belt involves local acceleration of a seed population of …

Temporal scales of electron precipitation driven by whistler‐mode waves

XJ Zhang, V Angelopoulos, A Artemyev… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electron resonant scattering by whistler‐mode waves is one of the most important
mechanisms responsible for electron precipitation to the Earth's atmosphere. The temporal …

Rapid frequency variations within intense chorus wave packets

XJ Zhang, D Mourenas, AV Artemyev… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Whistler mode chorus waves are responsible for electron acceleration in Earth's radiation
belts. It is unclear, however, whether the observed acceleration is still well described by …

Nonlinear interactions between radiation belt electrons and chorus waves: Dependence on wave amplitude modulation

L Gan, W Li, Q Ma, JM Albert… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use test particle simulations to model the interaction between radiation belt electrons
and whistler mode chorus waves by focusing on wave amplitude modulations. We quantify …

Differentiating between the leading processes for electron radiation belt acceleration

S Lejosne, HJ Allison, LW Blum, AY Drozdov… - Frontiers in astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Many spacecraft fly within or through a natural and variable particle accelerator powered by
the coupling between the magnetosphere and the solar wind: the Earth's radiation belts …

On the incorporation of nonlinear resonant wave‐particle interactions into radiation belt models

AV Artemyev, D Mourenas, XJ Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wave‐particle resonant interaction is a key process controlling energetic electron flux
dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts. All existing radiation belt codes are Fokker‐Planck …