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Charged particle behavior in the growth and damping stages of ultralow frequency waves: Theory and Van Allen Probes observations
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Wygant, John R., Zong, Qui-Gang, Kletzing, Craig A., Blake, J. Bernard, Kivelson, Margaret G., Zhou, Xuzhi, Chen, Xing-Ran, Rankin, Robert, Wang, Zi-Han
Ultralow frequency (ULF) electromagnetic waves in Earth's magnetosphere can accelerate charged particles via a process called drift resonance. In the conventional drift resonance theory, a default assumption is that the wave growth rate is time independent, positive, and extremely small. However,...
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Interaction of ULF waves with different ion species: Pitch angle and phase space density implications
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Ren, Jie, Zong, Qui-Gang, Rankin, Robert, Zhou, Xuzhi, Wang, Y. F.
ULF waves can accelerate/decelerate the charged particles including the ring current ions via drift-bounce resonance, which play an important role in the dynamics of ring current during storm times. This study compares the different behaviors of oxygen ions (10.5–35.1 keV) and protons (0.3–12.3...