Quantification of Relativistic Electron Microburst Losses During the GEM Storms

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsm41c0586o&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SM41C-0586

Physics

2716 Energetic Particles, Precipitating, 2720 Energetic Particles, Trapped, 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner

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Bursty precipitation of relativistic electrons has been implicated as a major loss process during magnetic storms. So-called microbursts appear to contain enough electrons to empty the prestorm radiation belts in approximately a day. During storms that result in high fluxes of trapped relativistic electrons, microbursts continue for several days into the recovery phase, when trapped fluxes are dramatically increasing. The present study shows that this apparent inconsistency is resolved by observations that the number of electrons lost to microbursts is many times larger during the main phase than during the recovery phase of several magnetic storms chosen by the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program.

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