The spectral extent of chorus in the off-equatorial magnetosphere

Magnetospheric chorus waves are a major driver of acceleration and loss in the Earth's outer electron radiation belt. The spectral extent of chorus is a key parameter in quantifying the global effect of chorus on energetic particle populations by determining the range of resonant electron energ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of geophysical research. Space physics 2013-04, Vol.118 (4), p.1700-1705
Hauptverfasser: Bunch, N. L., Spasojevic, M., Shprits, Y. Y., Gu, X., Foust, F.
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Zusammenfassung:Magnetospheric chorus waves are a major driver of acceleration and loss in the Earth's outer electron radiation belt. The spectral extent of chorus is a key parameter in quantifying the global effect of chorus on energetic particle populations by determining the range of resonant electron energies. However, statistics of spectral properties are sparse, particularly in the off‐equatorial magnetosphere. We use a database of chorus observations from the Polar spacecraft to generate statistics on the normalized chorus frequency (with the respect to the minimum field line gyrofrequency, Ωmin) as a function of magnetic local time (MLT) (0
ISSN:2169-9380
2169-9402
DOI:10.1029/2012JA018182