Month: September 2022

ELECTRON SPEED DRIVERS. “The candidate processes that can account for acceleration of the magnetospheric electrons to relativistic energies can be divided into three major categories: radial diffusion, rapid transport by intense electric field pulses, and local heating via wave-particle interactions.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

CALMING STORMS. “Electron losses are similarly a combination of many processes: convective losses by electrons drifting to the dayside magnetopause are significant especially at storm onset when the magnetosphere is often rapidly compressed to almost half of its original size.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

GYRORESONANT. “Several wave modes interacting with the electrons at resonant energies can scatter them to the atmospheric loss cone hence leading to increased precipitation and loss of electrons from the magnetosphere. Plasmaspheric hiss is a wave mode confined within the plasmasphere, driven unstable by gyroresonant interaction with energetic electrons.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

ECHO CHAMBER. “Lightning-induced whistler modes or man-made very low frequency (VLF) signals in the inner magnetosphere interact strongly with relativistic electrons.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

SONIC RESONANCE. “Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in turn are excited near the duskside plasmapause as a result of cyclotron resonance with anisotropic ring current ions, and also interact with the van Allen belt electron population. Again, it is likely that more than one process is active in the inner magnetosphere during any given time.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

MONSTER GYRES. “The magnetic field configuration is a key element in determining the adiabatic transport properties of both electrons and ions. The field configuration is determined by the large-scale current systems, in the inner magnetosphere mainly the ring current carried by energetic ions.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

EVERYTHING CONNECTS. “The ring current ions affect the relativistic electron population through their influence on the field configuration and through their influence on wave development.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn