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Magnetospheric convection and magnetopause shadowing effects in ULF wave‐driven energetic electron transport

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Kyle
dc.contributor.authorDegeling, Alex W.
dc.contributor.authorRankin, Robert
dc.contributor.authorRae, I. Johnathan
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T12:26:39Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T12:26:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionMagnetospheric radiation belt electron transport in the presence of ULF waves and a convection electric field is investigated using a model that includes a nightside plasma sheet source and electron losses by magnetopause shadowing. Narrow-band ULF waves launched from a prescribed dayside magnetopause source are shown to interact with trapped and untrapped equatorially mirroring electrons within the magnetosphere. For magnetic moments less than 8keV/nT and a strong convection electric field (in the order of 5mV/m), we find that a limb of untrapped plasma sheet electrons extending across the dayside magnetosphere into the afternoon sector provides a phase space density (PSD) source for injection to lower L-shells by ULF waves, causing a rapid enhancement in PSD. However, the same ULF wave activity gives rise to a rapid dropout in PSD for electrons with a higher magnetic moment or in the presence of a weaker convection electric field, since in this case the plasma sheet electrons escape through the magnetopause before they reach the afternoon sector. In their place, a lack of PSD, or PSD holes can be periodically injected from the magnetopause to lower L-shells by ULF waves, leading to the rapid depletion in average PSD. In each case, the magnitude and extent in L-shell of the PSD enhancement or depletion is strongly dependent on the amplitude of ULF waves in the afternoon sector, and is significantly augmented by the overlap of drift-resonant islands and an associated stochastic transport layer.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R30V89X86
dc.language.isoen
dc.relationhttp://doi.org/10.1002/jgra.50219
dc.relation.isversionofDegeling, Alex W., Rankin, Robert, Murphy, Kyle, & Rae, I. Johnathan. (2013). Magnetospheric convection and magnetopause shadowing effects in ULF wave‐driven energetic electron transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 118(6), 2919-2927. http://doi.org/10.1002/jgra.50219
dc.rights© 2013 American Geophysical Union. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
dc.subjectFields
dc.subjectStorms
dc.subjectMechanisms
dc.subjectRadiation Belts
dc.subjectRelativistic Electrons
dc.subjectResonances
dc.subjectOuter Radiation Belt
dc.subjectUlf Waves
dc.titleMagnetospheric convection and magnetopause shadowing effects in ULF wave‐driven energetic electron transport
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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