Cross-scale physics and the acceleration of particles in collisionless plasmas throughout the Heliosphere and beyond: III. Radiation belts
Whitepaper #400 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: fundamental space plasma theory; emerging opportunities.
by Drew L. Turner, George Clark, Wen Li, Sasha Ukhorskiy, Lauren Blum, Ian J. Cohen, Peter Kollmann, Bob Marshall, Grant Berland, Alexander Y. Drozdov, Will Dunn, George Hospodarsky, Ralph Kraft, Xinlin Li, Mark Looper, Barry Mauk, Quentin Nénon, T. Paul O’Brien, Elias Roussos, H. Todd Smith, Kareem Sorathia, Peter Williams, Xin Wu, Oleksiy Agapitov, Jay Albert, Hayley Allison, Daniel Baker, J. Bernard Blake, Jacob Bortnik, Aaron Breneman, Sebastien Bourdarie, Seth Claudepierre, Gina DiBraccio, Scot Elkington, Joe Fennell, Meiching Fok, Daniel Gershman, Sarah Glauert, Jasper Halekas, Dave Hartley, Richard Horne, Mary Hudson, Adam Kellerman, Craig Kletzing, Bill Kurth, Lou Lanzerotti, Qianli Ma, David Malaspina, Adam Masters, Nigel Meredith, Yoshi Miyoshi, Yoshi Omura, Victor Pinto, Geoff Reeves, Jean-Francois Ripoll, Craig Rodger, Theodore Sarris, Richard Selesnick, Yuri Shprits, Angelica Sicard, Harlan Spence, Weichao Tu, Maria Usanova, Emma Woodfield, John Wygant, and Hong Zhao
Published onJul 31, 2023
Cross-scale physics and the acceleration of particles in collisionless plasmas throughout the Heliosphere and beyond: III. Radiation belts
Radiation belt systems are found at all the sufficiently magnetized and sized planets in our Solar System, implying that particle trapping and acceleration in magnetospheric systems is a universal process. We should be conducting more advanced comparative systems science at these accessible radiation belt systems to understand the distinctive and universal processes at each.
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