The Role of EMIC Waves in the Outer Radiation Belt Losses

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm21a1652u&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM21A-1652

Physics

2720 Energetic Particles: Trapped, 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2774 Radiation Belts, 7867 Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984), 7984 Space Radiation Environment

Scientific paper

Complex response of electron fluxes to varying geomagnetic activity is determined by multiple competing electron acceleration and loss mechanisms. Mechanisms act on both 'global' scales, braking the second and/or the third invariant of trapped electrons, and on 'local' scales, breaking the first invariant. Predictive understanding of the outer belt can be achieved only by quantifying contributions of individual local and global mechanisms to global variability of relativistic electron fluxes. One of the local loss mechanisms of radiation belt electron is pith-angle scattering by Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) waves. In this work we use data from multiple spacecraft to investigate EMIC wave properties which determine their efficiency in scattering radiation belt electrons.

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