HR: 11:25h
AN: SM52A-03 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Waves in the Earth's Radiation Belt
AU: * Kletzing, C A
EM: craig-kletzing@uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Department of Physics and AStronomy, 203 Van Allen Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
AB: The physics of the creation and loss of radiation belt particles is intimately connected to the electric and magnetic fields which mediate these processes. A large range of field regimes are involved in this physics from ring current magnetic fields to microscopic kinetic interactions such as whistler-mode chorus waves with energetic electrons. Of particular interest are the interactions of radiation belt particles with the wave modes of VLF hiss, equatorial magnetosonic waves, electrostatic electron cyclotron waves, electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves, and chorus. Data examples of these key waves along with their importance to radiation belt science are discussed.
DE: 2772 Plasma waves and instabilities (2471)
DE: 2774 Radiation belts
DE: 2778 Ring current
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly