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 …

The electric and magnetic field instrument suite and integrated science (EMFISIS) on RBSP

CA Kletzing, WS Kurth, M Acuna, RJ MacDowall… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS)
investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) …

Radiation belt dynamics: The importance of wave‐particle interactions

RM Thorne - Geophysical Research Letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The flux of energetic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt can vary by several orders of
magnitude over time scales less than a day, in response to changes in properties of the …

Energetic electron precipitation driven by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves from ELFIN's low altitude perspective

V Angelopoulos, XJ Zhang, AV Artemyev… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
We review comprehensive observations of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave-
driven energetic electron precipitation using data collected by the energetic electron …

Resonant scattering of outer zone relativistic electrons by multiband EMIC waves and resultant electron loss time scales

B Ni, X Cao, Z Zou, C Zhou, X Gu… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our understanding of the role of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in
radiation belt electron dynamics, we perform a comprehensive analysis of EMIC wave …

The occurrence and wave properties of H+‐, He+‐, and O+‐band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

AA Saikin, JC Zhang, RC Allen… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We perform a statistical study of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves detected by the
Van Allen Probes mission to investigate the spatial distribution of their occurrence, wave …

Origins of the Earth's diffuse auroral precipitation

B Ni, RM Thorne, X Zhang, J Bortnik, Z Pu, L Xie… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
The Earth's diffuse auroral precipitation provides the major source of energy input into the
nightside upper atmosphere and acts as an essential linkage of the magnetosphere …

Global morphology and spectral properties of EMIC waves derived from CRRES observations

NP Meredith, RB Horne, T Kersten… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Gyroresonant wave‐particle interactions with electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves
are a potentially important loss process for relativistic electrons in the Earth's radiation belts …

Van Allen probes, NOAA, GOES, and ground observations of an intense EMIC wave event extending over 12 h in magnetic local time

MJ Engebretson, JL Posch, JR Wygant… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although most studies of the effects of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves on
Earth's outer radiation belt have focused on events in the afternoon sector in the outer …

A “trap‐release‐amplify” model of chorus waves

X Tao, F Zonca, L Chen - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whistler mode chorus waves are quasi‐coherent electromagnetic emissions with frequency
chirping. Various models have been proposed to understand the chirping mechanism, which …