Evidence for chorus-driven electron acceleration to relativistic energies from a survey of geomagnetically disturbed periods

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A6, 2003, Pages

  Meredith, Nigel P ^a   Cain, Michelle ^b   Horne, Richard B ^c   Thorne, Richard M ^d   Summers, Danny ^e,g   Anderson, Roger R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Electron acceleration; Relativistic electrons; Whistler mode chorus

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744446808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009764     Document Type: Article

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