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    The Electric and Magnetic Fields Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS): Science, Data, and Usage Best Practices

    We provide a post-mission assessment of the science and data from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Van Allen Probes mission. An overvi...

    C. A. Kletzing, J. Bortnik, G. Hospodarsky, W. S. Kurth in Space Science Reviews (2023)

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    Correction to: The Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data

    A. W. Breneman, J. R. Wygant, S. Tian, C. A. Cattell in Space Science Reviews (2022)

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    The Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data

    The Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) instrument provided measurements of electric fields and spacecraft floating potentials over a wide dynamic range from DC to 6.5 kHz near the equatorial plan...

    A. W. Breneman, J. R. Wygant, S. Tian, C. A. Cattell in Space Science Reviews (2022)

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    Electromagnetic power of lightning superbolts from Earth to space

    Lightning superbolts are the most powerful and rare lightning events with intense optical emission, first identified from space. Superbolt events occurred in 2010-2018 could be localized by extracting the high...

    J.-F. Ripoll, T. Farges, D. M. Malaspina, G. S. Cunningham in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Laboratory measurements of the physics of auroral electron acceleration by Alfvén waves

    While the aurora has attracted attention for millennia, important questions remain unanswered. Foremost is how auroral electrons are accelerated before colliding with the ionosphere and producing auroral light...

    J. W. R. Schroeder, G. G. Howes, C. A. Kletzing, F. Skiff in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Oxygen torus and its coincidence with EMIC wave in the deep inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probe B and Arase observations

    We investigate the longitudinal structure of the oxygen torus in the inner magnetosphere for a specific event found on 12 September 2017, using simultaneous observations from the Van Allen Probe B and Arase sa...

    M. Nosé, A. Matsuoka, A. Kumamoto, Y. Kasahara, M. Teramoto in Earth, Planets and Space (2020)

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    The Role of Solar Wind Structures in the Generation of ULF Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere

    The plasma of the solar wind incident upon the Earth’s magnetosphere can produce several types of geoeffective events. Among them, an important phenomenon consists of the interrelation of the magnetospheric–io...

    L. R. Alves, V. M. Souza, P. R. Jauer, L. A. da Silva, C. Medeiros in Solar Physics (2017)

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    Erratum to: The Electron Drift Instrument for MMS

    R. B. Torbert, H. Vaith, M. Granoff, M. Widholm, J. A. Gaidos in Space Science Reviews (2016)

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    The FIELDS Instrument Suite on MMS: Scientific Objectives, Measurements, and Data Products

    The FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission provides comprehensive measurements of the full vector magnetic and electric fields in the reconnection regions investigated by M...

    R. B. Torbert, C. T. Russell, W. Magnes, R. E. Ergun in Space Science Reviews (2016)

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    The Electron Drift Instrument for MMS

    The Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission measures the in-situ electric and magnetic fields using the drift of a weak beam of test electrons that, when emitted in certa...

    R. B. Torbert, H. Vaith, M. Granoff, M. Widholm, J. A. Gaidos in Space Science Reviews (2016)

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    Global-scale coherence modulation of radiation-belt electron loss from plasmaspheric hiss

    Simultaneous measurements of structured radiation-belt electron losses (in the form of bremsstrahlung X-rays) and plasmaspheric hiss (which causes the losses) reveal that the loss dynamics is coherent with the...

    A. W. Breneman, A. Halford, R. Millan, M. McCarthy, J. Fennell, J. Sample in Nature (2015)

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    The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP

    The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequen...

    C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kurth, M. Acuna, R. J. MacDowall in The Van Allen Probes Mission (2014)

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    Rapid local acceleration of relativistic radiation-belt electrons by magnetospheric chorus

    High-resolution measurements of electrons obtained by satellite during the geomagnetic storm of 9 October 2012 together with a data-driven global wave model are analysed to show that scattering by a magnetosph...

    R. M. Thorne, W. Li, B. Ni, Q. Ma, J. Bortnik, L. Chen, D. N. Baker, H. E. Spence in Nature (2013)

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    The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP

    The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequen...

    C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kurth, M. Acuna, R. J. MacDowall in Space Science Reviews (2013)

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    Phase Correlation of Electrons and Langmuir Waves

    Multiple spacecraft observations have confirmed the ubiquitous nature of Langmuir waves in the presence of auroral electrons. The electrons show variations consistent with bunching at or near the plasma freque...

    C.A. Kletzing, L. Muschietti in Geospace Electromagnetic Waves and Radiation (2006)

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    EDI electron time-of-flight measurements on Equator-S

    We present the first electron time-of-flight measurements obtained with the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) on Equator-S. These measurements are made possible by amplitude-modulation and coding of the emitted ...

    G. Paschmann, N. Sckopke, H. Vaith, J. M. Quinn, O. H. Bauer in Annales Geophysicae (1999)

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    EDI convection measurements at 5–6 RE in the post-midnight region

    We present the first triangulation measurements of electric fields with the electron drift instrument (EDI) on Equator-S. We show results from five high-data-rate passes of the satellite through the near-midni...

    J. M. Quinn, G. Paschmann, N. Sckopke, V. K. Jordanova, H. Vaith in Annales Geophysicae (1999)

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    The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) on Freja

    The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) on Freja is the first attempt to apply the electron drift technique in a region of large ambient magnetic fields. The paper describes the operational principles, the technical re...

    G. Paschmann, M. Boehm, H. Höfner, R. Frenzel, P. Parigger, F. Melzner in The Freja Mission (1995)

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    The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) on Freja

    The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) onFreja is the first attempt to apply the electron drift technique in a region of large ambient magnetic fields. The paper describes the operational principles, the technical rea...

    G. Paschmann, M. Boehm, H. Höfner, R. Frenzel, P. Parigger in Space Science Reviews (1994)