Open AccessRemediation of radiation belt electrons caused by ground based man-made VLF wave
Author(s) -
Ping Wang,
HuanYu Wang,
Yuqian Ma,
Xinqiao Li,
Hong Lü,
Xiangyi Meng,
Jilong Zhang,
Hui Wang,
Feng Shi,
Yunlin Xu,
Xin Yu,
Xiuli Zhao,
Wei Feng
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.60.039401
Subject(s) - van allen radiation belt , electron , physics , electron precipitation , radiation , acceleration , pitch angle , diffusion , computational physics , kinetic energy , van allen probes , position (finance) , geophysics , nuclear physics , magnetosphere , classical mechanics , plasma , quantum mechanics , finance , economics
The physics mechanisms of radiation belt electrons loss and acceleration are important issues in space physics research. Recently, France Microsatellite DEMETER has discovered the correlation between man-made VLF signals and radiation belt electrons precipitation in the NPM(the U.S. VLF transmitter located at Lualualei) experiment. Our research focuses on the explanation of the relation among affected pitch angle distribution, kinetic energy and position of electrons. This is achieved by calculating the local diffusion coeffcient based on the theory of qusi-linear diffusion with resonant interaction. Our result has a good explanation of radiation belt electron precipitation discovered by DEMETER during NPM experiment. Furthermore, we have discussed the effciency of radiation belt remediation in an artificial way.