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H. O. Funsten
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessDiffuse auroral precipitation driven by lower-band chorus second harmonics
Diffuse aurora at the Earth’s high latitude regions is mainly caused by the low-energy (0.1–30 keV) electron precipitation which carries the major energy flux into the nightside upper atmosphere. Previous stud...
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Open AccessWave-driven butterfly distribution of Van Allen belt relativistic electrons
Van Allen radiation belts consist of relativistic electrons trapped by Earth's magnetic field. Trapped electrons often drift azimuthally around Earth and display a butterfly pitch angle distribution of a minim...
