Earth's Van Allen radiation belts: From discovery to the Van Allen Probes era

W Li, MK Hudson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Discovery of the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts by instruments flown on Explorer 1 in 1958
was the first major discovery of the Space Age. The observation of distinct inner and outer …

Colloquium: Heavy-electron quantum criticality and single-particle spectroscopy

S Kirchner, S Paschen, Q Chen, S Wirth, D Feng… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy
(STM) have become indispensable tools in the study of correlated quantum materials. Both …

First results from REPTile‐2 measurements onboard CIRBE

X Li, R Selesnick, Y Mei, D O'Brien… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract CIRBE (Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment), a 3U CubeSat, was launched
on 15 April 2023 into a sun synchronous orbit (97.4° inclination and 509 km altitude). The …

Empirically estimated electron lifetimes in the Earth's radiation belts: Comparison with theory

SG Claudepierre, Q Ma, J Bortnik… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We compute quasilinear diffusion rates due to pitch angle scattering by various mechanisms
in the Earth's electron radiation belts. The calculated theoretical lifetimes are compared with …

Artificial modification of Earth's radiation belts by ground-based very-low-frequency (VLF) transmitters

B Ni, M Hua, X Gu, S Fu, Z **ang, X Cao… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Wave-particle interactions play a fundamental role in the dynamic variability of Earth's donut-
shaped radiation belts that are highly populated by magnetically trapped energetic particles …

Origin of two-band chorus in the radiation belt of Earth

J Li, J Bortnik, X An, W Li, V Angelopoulos… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Naturally occurring chorus emissions are a class of electromagnetic waves found in the
space environments of the Earth and other magnetized planets. They play an essential role …

[HTML][HTML] The relativistic electron-proton telescope (REPT) investigation: Design, operational properties, and science highlights

DN Baker, SG Kanekal, V Hoxie, X Li, AN Jaynes… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope (REPT) instruments were designed to
measure∼ 2 to> 18 MeV electrons and∼ 18 to> 115 MeV protons as part of the science …

The magnetic electron ion spectrometer: A review of on-orbit sensor performance, data, operations, and science

SG Claudepierre, JB Blake, AJ Boyd… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Measurements from NASA's Van Allen Probes have transformed our understanding of the
dynamics of Earth's geomagnetically-trapped, charged particle radiation. The Van Allen …

Statistics and empirical models of the plasmasphere boundaries from the Van Allen Probes for radiation belt physics

JF Ripoll, SA Thaller, DP Hartley… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We deduce the electron plasma density from the NASA Van Allen Probes Electric Field and
Waves and Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science …

Wave–particle interaction effects in the Van Allen belts

DN Baker - Earth, Planets and Space, 2021 - Springer
Discovering such structures as the third radiation belt (or “storage ring”) has been a major
observational achievement of the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes program (renamed the …