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Spring 2011
Blanco-Benavides, Jose Mauricio
The nightside auroral region is known to be the most powerful source of radiation from Earth to space. Emitted radiation reaches up to 10^9 watt, with frequencies ranging 100 - 600 kHz, and is known as Auroral Kilometric radiation (AKR). AKR is generated through coherent emission by highly...
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Spring 2019
Blanco Benavides, Jose Mauricio
The inner magnetosphere hosts a variety of different plasma environments. The transition from one region to the next extends over considerable lengths where adjacent plasmas merge gradually. Plasma waves play an important role in coupling these regions by facilitating particle and energy flows...
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Numerical modeling of drift resonance and drift-bounce resonance between ultra-low frequency waves and energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere
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The main topic of this thesis is the investigation of drift resonance and drift-bounce resonance between energetic particles and Pc3-5 Alfvenic ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere. We have developed numerical models to simulate how the dynamics of O+, H+ ions and...
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Fall 2019
In this thesis, the lunar wake is investigated with a hybrid-kinetic model to simulate the dynamics of the ions as particles as well as in the fluid approximations. Two-fluid models of the entire wake whether interacting (the method of characteristics) or not (the analytic model) are developed...
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Radial Transport of Electrons in the Radiation Belts Under the Effect of Ultra Low Frequency Waves
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For over 50 years, the study of Earth's radiation belts has been a major focus of the space physics community. Of great interest is the variability of energy in the belts, which is poorly understood and subject to intense investigation. We seek to explain how impulses from the Sun interact with...
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ULF Waves in the Magnetosphere and their Association with Magnetopause Instabilities and Oscillations
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This thesis addresses the question of excitation of ULF waves by magnetopause instabilities and oscillations. Given proper spacecraft orientations and near magnetopause encounters, the CLUSTER spacecraft mission is used to resolve the space-time ambiguity inherent in a single spacecraft...