The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 38 Issue 2
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- Pages.95.2-95.2
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- 2013
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Preliminary Analysis of Several Storm Events by using the ECT data onboard Van Allen Probes
- Choi, Eunjin (KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)) ;
- Hwang, Junga (KASI(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)) ;
- Kim, Hang-Pyo (KASI(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)) ;
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Kim, Kyoung-Chan
(KASI(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute))
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Park, Young-Deuk
(KASI(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute))
;
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Min, Kyoung-Wook
(KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology))
- Published : 2013.10.08
Abstract
The Van Allen Probes were designed to study the Earth's radiation belts on various scales of space and time. The identical two spacecrafts going nearly eccentric orbits lap each other several times over the course of the mission and each probe carries five instrument suites to address the science objectives on the radiation belt. Since Van Allen Probes launched on August 30, 2012, the probes detecte several storm events up to now. To understand the particle acceleration and loss mechanism in the radiation belt, we first focus on the energetic electrons' dynamics detected by ECT (Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite). ECT measures near-Earth space's radiation particles covering the full electron and ion spectra from ~ eV to 10's of MeV with sufficient energy resolution. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the recent several storm events using electron data from ECT(MagEIS and REPT).
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