Inner Belt Electron Decay Timescales: A Comparison of Van Allen Probes and DREAM3D Losses Following the June 2015 Storm

被引：1

作者：

Broll, Jeffrey M. M. ^{[1
]}

Cunningham, Gregory S. S. ^{[1
]}

Malaspina, David M. M. ^{[2
,3
]}

Claudepierre, Seth G. G. ^{[4
]}

Ripoll, Jean-Francois ^{[5
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA

[2] Univ Colorado, Astrophys & Planetary Sci Dept, Boulder, CO USA

[3] Univ Colorado, Lab Atmospher & Space Phys, Boulder, CO USA

[4] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA USA

[5] CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France

[6] UPS, CEA, LMCE, Bruyeres Le Chatel, France

来源：

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2023年 / 50卷 / 10期

关键词：

radiation belts; decay timescales; Sturm-Liouville equations; HISS WAVE POWER; RADIATION ZONE; CHORUS WAVE; DIFFUSION; MODEL;

D O I：

10.1029/2022GL102106

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

NASA's Van Allen Probes observed significant, long-lived fluxes of inner belt electrons up to similar to 1 MeV after geomagnetic storms in March and June 2015. Reanalysis of Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) data with improved background correction showed a clearer picture of the relativistic electron population that persisted through 2016 and into 2017 above the Fennell et al. (2015, ) limit. The intensity and duration of these enhancements allow estimation of decay timescales for comparison with simulated decay rates and theoretical lifetimes. We compare decay timescales from these data and DREAM3D simulations based on them using geomagnetic activity-dependent pitch angle diffusion coefficients derived from plasmapause-indexed wave data (Malaspina et al., 2016, , 2018, ) and phase space densities derived from MagEIS observations. Simulated decay rates match observed decay rates more closely than the theoretical lifetime due to significantly nonequilibrium pitch angle distributions in simulation and data. We conclude that nonequilibrium effects, rather than a missing diffusion or loss process, account for observed short decay rates.

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