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 …

Particle dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts: Review of current research and open questions

JF Ripoll, SG Claudepierre… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade transformed our observational understanding of energetic particle
processes in near‐Earth space. An unprecedented suite of observational systems was in …

The ELFIN mission

V Angelopoulos, E Tsai, L Bingley, C Shaffer… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Electron Loss and Fields Investigation with a Spatio-Temporal Ambiguity-
Resolving option (ELFIN-STAR, or heretoforth simply: ELFIN) mission comprises two …

Mesoscale structure in the solar wind

NM Viall, CE DeForest, L Kepko - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Structures in the solar wind result from two basic mechanisms: structures injected or
imposed directly by the Sun, and structures formed through processing en route as the solar …

The magnetic electron ion spectrometer: A review of on-orbit sensor performance, data, operations, and science

SG Claudepierre, JB Blake, AJ Boyd… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Measurements from NASA's Van Allen Probes have transformed our understanding of the
dynamics of Earth's geomagnetically-trapped, charged particle radiation. The Van Allen …

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 …

Geomagnetic storm occurrence and their relation with solar cycle phases

PI Reyes, VA Pinto, PS Moya - Space Weather, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Using a time series of geomagnetic storm events between 1957 and 2019, obtained by
selecting storms where− 50 nT, we have analyzed the probability of occurrence of moderate …

[图书][B] Physics of Earth's radiation belts: Theory and observations

HEJ Koskinen, EKJ Kilpua - 2022 - library.oapen.org
This open access book serves as textbook on the physics of the radiation belts surrounding
the Earth. Discovered in 1958 the famous Van Allen Radiation belts were among the first …

Unraveling the critical geomagnetic conditions controlling the upper limit of electron fluxes in the Earth's outer radiation belt

M Hua, J Bortnik, X Chu, H Aryan… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the statistical distribution of the upper limit of outer radiation belt electron
fluxes during active times using 5‐year measurements from Van Allen Probes. The upper …

SuperDARN observations during geomagnetic storms, geomagnetically active times, and enhanced solar wind driving

MT Walach, A Grocott - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) was built to study
ionospheric convection at Earth and has in recent years been expanded to lower latitudes to …