Leptons with energy >200 MeV trapped near the South Atlantic Anomaly

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Nov 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jgra..108.1402f&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 108, Issue A11, pp. SMP 12-1, CiteID 1402, DOI 10.1029/2003JA009844

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Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic Particles, Trapped, Precipitating, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere-Inner, Interplanetary Physics: Energetic Particles, Planetary

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Accurate measurements of electron and positron fluxes in the energy range 0.2-10 GeV have been performed with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) at altitudes of 320-390 km in the geographic latitude interval +/-51.7°. We focus on the fluxes measured in the regions nearby the South Atlantic Anomaly, defined by the local magnetic values of the magnetic field B (0.21 <= B <= 0.26 G) at the altitude of AMS. A clear transition from the Stably Trapped population typical of the Inner Van Allen belts to Quasi-Trapped population in the regions underneath the Van Allen belts is observed. The high energy observations demonstrate the relatively higher abundance of positrons in the Inner Van Allen belts, for both the Stably Trapped and the Quasi-Trapped populations. The flux maps as a function of the canonical adiabatic variables L, αo are presented for the interval 0.95 < L < 3, 0° < αo < 90° for electron energies below 10 GeV and positrons energies below 3 GeV. The results are compared with existing data at lower energies.

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