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Title: Highly relativistic radiation belt electron acceleration, transport, and loss: Large solar storm events of March and June 2015

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 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [5]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6];  [7];  [8]
  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  3. MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA (United States)
  4. The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
  7. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
  8. Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
OSTI Identifier:
1304817
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1597374
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-22086; LA-UR-19-32275
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; NAS5-01072; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 121; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; Heliospheric Physics; Magnetospheric Physics; radiation belts; magnetosphere; electron acceleration; Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Physics

Citation Formats

Baker, Daniel N., Jaynes, A. N., Kanekal, S. G., Foster, J. C., Erickson, P. J., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Zhao, H., Li, X., Elkington, S. R., Henderson, Michael Gerard, Reeves, G. D., Spence, H. E., Kletzing, C. A., and Wygant, J. R. Highly relativistic radiation belt electron acceleration, transport, and loss: Large solar storm events of March and June 2015. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/2016JA022502.
Baker, Daniel N., Jaynes, A. N., Kanekal, S. G., Foster, J. C., Erickson, P. J., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Zhao, H., Li, X., Elkington, S. R., Henderson, Michael Gerard, Reeves, G. D., Spence, H. E., Kletzing, C. A., & Wygant, J. R. Highly relativistic radiation belt electron acceleration, transport, and loss: Large solar storm events of March and June 2015. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022502
Baker, Daniel N., Jaynes, A. N., Kanekal, S. G., Foster, J. C., Erickson, P. J., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Zhao, H., Li, X., Elkington, S. R., Henderson, Michael Gerard, Reeves, G. D., Spence, H. E., Kletzing, C. A., and Wygant, J. R. Sat . "Highly relativistic radiation belt electron acceleration, transport, and loss: Large solar storm events of March and June 2015". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1304817.
@article{osti_1304817,
title = {Highly relativistic radiation belt electron acceleration, transport, and loss: Large solar storm events of March and June 2015},
author = {Baker, Daniel N. and Jaynes, A. N. and Kanekal, S. G. and Foster, J. C. and Erickson, P. J. and Fennell, J. F. and Blake, J. B. and Zhao, H. and Li, X. and Elkington, S. R. and Henderson, Michael Gerard and Reeves, G. D. and Spence, H. E. and Kletzing, C. A. and Wygant, J. R.},
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doi = {10.1002/2016JA022502},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics},
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volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sat Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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