Book chapter
Energetic Particles and Waves in the Outer Planet Radiation Belts
Waves, Particles, and Storms in Geospace, pp.377-410
Oxford Univ Press
01/01/2016
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198705246.003.0016
Abstract
The radiation belts of the outer planets are among the harshest environments in our solar system. In extremely strong internal closed magnetic field configurations energetic particles up to several hundred MeV energies are trapped and bounce back and forth along the magnetic field lines emitting waves in a whole variety of frequencies. Charged particles in strong magnetic fields gyrate about the magnetic field line, bounce along it, and drift perpendicular to it simultaneously. Large ground-based or Earth-orbit-based telescopes as well as remote and in-situ measurements aboard spacecraft have been used to characterize those intense radiation environments of the gas giants in our solar system. Pitch angle distributions, energy spectra and composition measurements help to better understand the processes acting and help to identify the particle sources and acceleration mechanisms as well as the sources of waves in the huge magnetospheres. This chapter gives a summary of the present knowledge of the radiation belts of Jupiter and Saturn.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Energetic Particles and Waves in the Outer Planet Radiation Belts
- Creators
- N. Krupp - Max Planck Institute for Solar System ResearchE. Roussos - Max Planck Institute for Solar System ResearchC. Paranicas - Johns Hopkins UniversityA. Sicard - Off Natl Etud & Rech Aerosp, Toulouse, FranceG. Hospodarsky - Univ Iowa, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAY. Shprits - GFZ German Res Ctr Geosci, Sect Earths Magnet Field 2 3, Potsdam, Germany
- Contributors
- G Balasis (Editor)I A Daglis (Editor)I R Mann (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Waves, Particles, and Storms in Geospace, pp.377-410
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press; NEW YORK
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198705246.003.0016
- Number of pages
- 34
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984455756702771
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