Characteristic energy range of electron scattering due to plasmaspheric hiss

Ma, Q.; Li, W.; Thorne, R. M.; Bortnik, J.; Reeves, G. D.; Kletzing, C. A.; Kurth, W. S.; Hospodarsky, G. B.; Spence, H. E.; Baker, D. N.; Blake, J. B.; Fennell, J. F.; Claudepierre, S. G.; Angelopoulos, V.

doi:10.1002/2016JA023311

Title: Characteristic energy range of electron scattering due to plasmaspheric hiss

Journal Article · Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023311· OSTI ID:1402625

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Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Boston Univ., MA (United States). Center for Space Physics
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Inst. for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Lab. for Atmospheric and Space Physics
The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Space Sciences Dept.
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

In this paper, we investigate the characteristic energy range of electron flux decay due to the interaction with plasmaspheric hiss in the Earth's inner magnetosphere. The Van Allen Probes have measured the energetic electron flux decay profiles in the Earth's outer radiation belt during a quiet period following the geomagnetic storm that occurred on 7 November 2015. The observed energy of significant electron decay increases with decreasing L shell and is well correlated with the energy band corresponding to the first adiabatic invariant μ = 4–200 MeV/G. The electron diffusion coefficients due to hiss scattering are calculated at L = 2–6, and the modeled energy band of effective pitch angle scattering is also well correlated with the constant μ lines and is consistent with the observed energy range of electron decay. Using the previously developed statistical plasmaspheric hiss model during modestly disturbed periods, we perform a 2-D Fokker-Planck simulation of the electron phase space density evolution at L = 3.5 and demonstrate that plasmaspheric hiss causes the significant decay of 100 keV–1 MeV electrons with the largest decay rate occurring at around 340 keV, forming anisotropic pitch angle distributions at lower energies and more flattened distributions at higher energies. Finally, our study provides reasonable estimates of the electron populations that can be most significantly affected by plasmaspheric hiss and the consequent electron decay profiles.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; SC0010578; NAS5-01072; NNX15AI96G; NNX15AF61G; NNX14AN85G; NNX13AI61G; NNX14AI18G; 967399; 921647; AGS 1405054; 1564510; FA9550-15-1-0158

OSTI ID:: 1402625

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-20875; TRN: US1703014

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, Vol. 121, Issue 12; ISSN 2169-9380

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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