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Simultaneous Observations of Localized and Global Drift Resonance
Author(s) -
Hao Y. X.,
Zhao X. X.,
Zong Q.G.,
Zhou X.Z.,
Rankin R.,
Chen X. R.,
Liu Y.,
Fu S. Y.,
Blake J. B.,
Reeves G. D.,
Claudepierre S. G.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2020gl088019
Subject(s) - resonance (particle physics) , physics , electron , atomic physics , van allen probes , electron spectrometer , van allen radiation belt , pitch angle , computational physics , plasma , magnetosphere , geophysics , nuclear physics , cathode ray
Abstract In this study, we present Van Allen Probe observations showing that seed (hundreds of keV) and core ( ≳ 1 MeV) electrons can resonate with ultra‐low‐frequency (ULF) wave modes with distinctive m values simultaneously. An unusual electron energy spectrogram with double‐banded resonant structure was recorded by energetic particle, composition, and thermal plasma (ECT)‐magnetic electron ion spectrometer (MagEIS) and, meanwhile, boomerang stripes in pitch angle spectrogram appeared at the lower energy band. A localized drift resonance with m = 10 wave component was responsible for the resonant band peaked at ∼ 200 keV while a global drift resonance with m = 3 component gave rise to the upper band resonance peaked at ∼ 1 MeV. Time‐Of‐Flight on boomerang stripes suggested that the localized drift resonance with ∼ 200 keV electrons was confined within the plasmaspheric plume. Electron flux modulations were reproduced by numerical simulations in good consistency with the observations, supporting the scenario that localized and global drift resonance could coexist in the outer belt electron dynamics simultaneously.