Electromagnetic Waves, Plasmas, and Energetic Particles : Natural and Controlled Interactions within Geosynchronous Orbit

Session ID#: 281909

Session Description:
This session is dedicated to the electromagnetic environment and the physical mechanisms responsible for acceleration, loss, and transport of energetic particles through wave-particle interactions, occurring naturally or triggered by man-made active experiments within geosynchronous orbit. Complexity stems from the variability of the waves/phenomena with (magnetic)-local-time, geomagnetic activity, etc., with a strong dependence on the cold plasma density background. In the near-Earth space, loss driven by wave-particle interactions induces atmospheric precipitation important and hard to predict for its climate impact. Particle injections from substorms and local acceleration from chorus waves occur, competing with and obscuring more gradual processes. All these processes ultimately affect the energetic particle environment near Earth. This session solicits observational studies from one/several satellite/CubeSats missions, ground-based measurements, active experiments, and numerical studies involving particles (electrons/ions/protons) dynamics (transport/loss/acceleration), electromagnetic waves (mapping, growth, properties, effects), wave-particle interactions, large-scale electric/magnetic fields, substorm injections, the plasmasphere, ionospheric effects and atmospheric precipitation.
Index Terms:

2753 Numerical modeling [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2768 Plasmasphere [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2772 Plasma waves and instabilities [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2774 Radiation belts [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Jean-Francois Ripoll, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France
Conveners:  Jay Albert, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Weichao Tu, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States