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Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)-Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) suite contains an innovative complement of particle instruments to ensure the highest quality measurements ever ...
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The Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) Instruments Aboard the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Spacecraft
This paper describes the Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) instruments aboard the RBSP spacecraft from an instrumentation and engineering point of view. There are four magnetic spectrometers aboard e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolution and Energization of Energetic Electrons in the Inner Magnetosphere
In this paper we present a review of what we know about the evolution and energization of energetic electrons in the inner magnetosphere. We emphasize what we have learned since the review by Friedel et al. [17] ...
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Energetic Electrons as a Field Line Topology Tracer in the High Latitude Boundary/Cusp Region: Cluster Rapid Observations
Energetic electrons (e.g., 50 keV) travel along field lines with a high speed of around 20 R E s −1. T...
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RAPID
The RAPID spectrometer (Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors) for the Cluster mission is an advanced particle detector for the analysis of suprathermal plasma distributions in the energy range fro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Plasma Observations in the Auroral and Polar Cap Region
The last decade has seen a period of rapid growth in our understanding of the processes which occur in the auroral regions. Much of our understanding is based on the copious new observations which have been ma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geomagnetically Trapped Alpha Particles
Prior to 1970, the existing experimental data on a-particles were limited (Krimigis, 1970; Blake and Paulikas, 1970) and new data were just becoming available. The early measurements dealt almost exclusively w...