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Title: Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume

Abstract

Abstract We present observations from the Van Allen Probes spacecraft that identify a region of intense whistler mode activity within a large density enhancement outside of the plasmasphere. We speculate that this density enhancement is part of a remnant plasmaspheric plume, with the observed wave being driven by a weakly anisotropic electron injection that drifted into the plume and became nonlinearly unstable to whistler emission. Particle measurements indicate that a significant fraction of thermal (<100 eV) electrons within the plume were subject to Landau acceleration by these waves, an effect that is naturally explained by whistler emission within a gradient and high‐density ducting inside a density enhancement.

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1558218
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1402330
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-20000
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Physics; whistler, VLF wave, plasmasphere, wave-particle interactions

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Woodroffe, J. R., Jordanova, V. K., Funsten, H. O., Streltsov, A. V., Bengtson, M. T., Kletzing, C. A., Wygant, J. R., Thaller, S. A., and Breneman, A. W. Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1002/2015JA022219.
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Woodroffe, J. R., Jordanova, V. K., Funsten, H. O., Streltsov, A. V., Bengtson, M. T., Kletzing, C. A., Wygant, J. R., Thaller, S. A., & Breneman, A. W. Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA022219
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Woodroffe, J. R., Jordanova, V. K., Funsten, H. O., Streltsov, A. V., Bengtson, M. T., Kletzing, C. A., Wygant, J. R., Thaller, S. A., and Breneman, A. W. Sat . "Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA022219. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558218.
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@article{osti_1558218,
title = {Van Allen Probes observations of structured whistler mode activity and coincident electron Landau acceleration inside a remnant plasmaspheric plume},
author = {Woodroffe, J. R. and Jordanova, V. K. and Funsten, H. O. and Streltsov, A. V. and Bengtson, M. T. and Kletzing, C. A. and Wygant, J. R. and Thaller, S. A. and Breneman, A. W.},
abstractNote = {Abstract We present observations from the Van Allen Probes spacecraft that identify a region of intense whistler mode activity within a large density enhancement outside of the plasmasphere. We speculate that this density enhancement is part of a remnant plasmaspheric plume, with the observed wave being driven by a weakly anisotropic electron injection that drifted into the plume and became nonlinearly unstable to whistler emission. Particle measurements indicate that a significant fraction of thermal (<100 eV) electrons within the plume were subject to Landau acceleration by these waves, an effect that is naturally explained by whistler emission within a gradient and high‐density ducting inside a density enhancement.},
doi = {10.1002/2015JA022219},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics},
number = 3,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Sat Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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