Relativistic electron enhancements observed over a range of L shells trapped at high altitudes and precipitating at low altitudes into the atmosphere

Details Relativistic electron enhancements observed over a range of L shells trapped at high altitudes and precipitating at low altitudes into the atmosphere Relativistic electron enhancements observed over a range of L shells trapped at high altitudes and precipitating at low altitudes into the atmosphere

May 1992

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A5, May 1, 1992, p. 6397-6403. Research supported by DARPA and Lo

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Atmospheric Physics, Earth Magnetosphere, Electron Precipitation, Relativistic Electron Beams, Trapped Particles, Energy Spectra, Flux (Rate)

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Concurrent above 1-MeV electron data are presented on the fluxes of relativistic electrons at high altitudes from the SCATHA satellite, which was in near-synchronous orbit and covered L of 5.3-8.7 at near-equatorial positions, and the P78-1 satellite at 600-km altitude in a polar orbit, which covered the full range of L. The low- and high-altitude fluxes of above 1-MeV electrons were found to track each other during the period studied (April-June 1979), with respect to both time and L shell variations. The average precipitating electron fluxes measured at low altitudes in the drift loss cone were lower than those at high altitude by a factor of about 300. For L of 5.3-7 the average fluxes in the bounce loss cone at low altitudes were estimated to be lower than the trapped fluxes at high altitude by a factor of about 30,000.

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