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 …

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 …

Electron‐acoustic solitons and double layers in the inner magnetosphere

IY Vasko, OV Agapitov, FS Mozer… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Van Allen Probes observe generally two types of electrostatic solitary waves
(ESW) contributing to the broadband electrostatic wave activity in the nightside inner …

[HTML][HTML] Electron-acoustic solitary waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

CS Dillard, IY Vasko, FS Mozer, OV Agapitov… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The broadband electrostatic turbulence observed in the inner magnetosphere is produced
by large-amplitude electrostatic solitary waves of generally two types. The solitary waves …

Shock waves and the formation of solitary structures in electron acoustic wave in inner magnetosphere plasma with relativistically degenerate particles

J Goswami, S Chandra, B Ghosh - Astrophysics and Space Science, 2019 - Springer
The inner magnetosphere of Earth houses relativistically degenerate particles in which the
formation of shocks and solitons occurs. In this paper we have considered plasma …

Dipolarizing flux bundles in the cis‐geosynchronous magnetosphere: Relationship between electric fields and energetic particle injections

J Liu, V Angelopoulos, XJ Zhang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Dipolarizing flux bundles (DFBs) are small flux tubes (typically< 3 RE in XGSM and YGSM)
in the nightside magnetosphere that have magnetic field more dipolar than the background …

Energy limits of electron acceleration in the plasma sheet during substorms: A case study with the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission

DL Turner, JF Fennell, JB Blake… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present multipoint observations of earthward moving dipolarization fronts and energetic
particle injections from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission with a focus on electron …

Broadband low‐frequency electromagnetic waves in the inner magnetosphere

CC Chaston, JW Bonnell, CA Kletzing… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A prominent yet largely unrecognized feature of the inner magnetosphere associated with
particle injections, and more generally geomagnetic storms, is the occurrence of broadband …

The evolving paradigm of the subauroral geospace

EV Mishin - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An assessment of the status quo of fast subauroral flows—subauroral ion drifts (SAID) and
subauroral polarization streams (SAPS), is presented. For a few decades, their development …