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2016
Wang, Y. F., Baker, Daniel N., Fu, Suiyan, Kletzing, Craig A., Yuan, C. J., Zong, Qui-Gang, Zhou, Xuzhi, Wang, Linghua, Liu, H., Blake, J. Bernard., Rankin, Robert
We present Van Allen Probes observations of modulations in the flux of very energetic electrons up to a few MeV and protons between 1200 and 1400 UT on 19 February 2014. During this event the spacecraft were in the dayside magnetosphere at L⋆≈5.5. The modulations extended across a wide range of...
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Confirmation of quasi‐perpendicular shock reformation in two‐dimensional hybrid simulations
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Danskin, Donald W., Rankin, Robert, Trichtchenko, Larisa, Yuan, Xingqui, Cairns, Iver H.
Shock reformation involves regions of a shock undergoing periodic collapse and redevelopment on a time scale close to the ion cyclotron period. Reformation is often observed in one-dimensional (1-D) hybrid and particle in cell (PIC) simulations of quasi-perpendicular collisionless shocks provided...
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2013
Rankin, Robert , Degeling, Alex W., Watt, Clare E.
We introduce a new methodology that allows the construction of wave frequency distributions due to growing incoherent whistler-mode waves in the magnetosphere. The technique combines the equations of geometric optics (i.e., raytracing) with the equation of transfer of radiation in an anisotropic...
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2011
Elkington, Scot R., Degeling, Alex W., Rankin, Robert
The process of magnetospheric radiation belt electron transport driven by ULF waves is studied using a 2-D ideal MHD model for ULF waves in the equatorial plane including day/night asymmetry and a magnetopause boundary, and a test kinetic model for equatorially mirroring electrons. We find that...
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1997
Tikhonchuk, V. T., Voronkov, I., Frycz, P., Samson, J. C., Rankin, Robert
The nonlinear dynamics of a shear flow and its subsequent evolution in the equatorial plane of the inner plasma sheet is studied. A linear analysis of the ideal MHD equations reveals a hybrid vortex instability which appears because of the coupling of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) and Rayleigh-Taylor...
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2023-04-28
Chase, Brandon FW., Unsworth, Martyn J.
If you use this data, please cite either this portal or the journal article published using this data, which can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026555 Please read the description below. Any questions can be emailed to bchase1@ualberta.ca This entry contains the data from 13...
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Deep Chandra observations of the NGC 4472 globular cluster black hole XMMU 1229397+075333: short-term variability from the first globular cluster black hole binary
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Joseph, Tana D., Maccarone, Thomas J., Kraft, Ralph P., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert
In this paper, we discuss the luminosity modulations and spectral analysis results of the recent deep observations of XMMU 122939.7+075333, the first black hole discovered in a globular cluster. The source has been detected many times, typically with LX > 1039 erg s−1, but in a 2010 observation...
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Deep radio imaging of 47 Tuc identifies the peculiar X-ray source X9 as a new black hole candidate
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Miller-Jones, James C. A., Strader, Jay, Heinke, Craig O., Maccarone, Thomas J., van den Berg, Maureen, Knigge, C., Chomiuk, Laura, Noyola, Eva, Russell, Thomas D., Seth, Anil C., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert
We report the detection of steady radio emission from the known X-ray source X9 in the globular cluster 47 Tuc. With a double-peaked C IV emission line in its ultraviolet spectrum providing a clear signature of accretion, this source had been previously classified as a cataclysmic variable. In...
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Deformation and evolution of solar wind discontinuities through their interactions with the Earth's bow shock
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Kabin, Konstantin, Keika, Kunihiro, Rankin, Robert, Carr, C. M., Carlson, C. W., Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz, Magnes, Werner, Lucek, Elizabeth, McFadden, J. P., Dandouras, Iannis, Auster, H. U., Sibeck, D. G., Fornacon, K.-H., Angelopoulos, Vassilis, Baumjohann, W., Nakamura, Rumi
The present study examines the interaction of solar wind discontinuities with the Earth's bow shock, using multipoint observations in the magnetosheath by Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS), Cluster, and Double Star TC1. We focus on the deformation and...
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Diffraction, self‐focusing, and the geometrical optics limit in laser produced plasmas
1987
Capjack, C. E., Birnboim, A., Rankin, Robert, Marchand, Richard
The effect of diffraction on the self‐modulation of an intense laser beam in an initially uniform hydrogen plasma is investigated. A formalism is used in which the diffraction term in the paraxial wave equation can be arbitrarily reduced by the use of a weight factor ι. In the limit where ι...