H1  Physics of the Radiation Belts

Wednesday, January 8  13:20-17:20  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Mark Golkowski, Christopher Crabtree

13:20  H1-1  MODELING AND MEASUREMENTS OF VERY LOW FREQUENCY WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH THE IONOSPHERE

Bogdan Popa*1, Steven A. Cummer1, Douglas E. Rowland2, John R. Wygant3

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
3School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN


13:40  H1-2  PROPAGATION OF WHISTLER-MODE WAVES THROUGH THE IONOSPHERE TO THE RADIATION BELTS

Anatoly V. Streltsov*, Jesse R. Woodroffe

Department of Physical Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach


14:00  H1-3  ANALYSIS OF MAGNETOSPHERIC ELF/VLF WAVE AMPLIFI CATION FROM THE SIPLE TRANSMITTER EXPERIMENT

Justin D. Li*1, Maria Spasojevic1, Vijay Harid1, Morris B. Cohen1, Mark Golkowski2, Donald L. Carpenter1, Umran Inan1,3

1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado
3Electrical Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY


14:20  H1-4  WAVE-KINETIC SIMULATIONS OF LOWER-HYBRID TURBULENCE DRIVEN BY VELOCITY RING INSTABILITIES

C. Crabtree*1, G. Ganguli1, M. Mithaiwala1, L. Rudakov2

1Division of Plasma Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda, MD


14:40  H1-5  LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF NONLINEAR WHISTLER WAVE INTERACTIONS*

Bill Amatucci*1, Erik Tejero1, Chris Cothran2, Dave Blackwell1, Guru Ganguli1

1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Sotera Defense Solutions, Crofton, MD


15:20  H1-6  AN EXPERIMENTAL CONCEPT FOR PROBING NONLINEAR PHYSICS IN RADIATION BELTS

Gurudas Ganguli*, Chris Crabtree, Manish Mithaiwala, Carl Siefringe

Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC


15:40  H1-7  CONVECTIVE AMPLIFICATION OF EMIC WAVES FROM RING-DISTRIBUTION PROTONS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE VAN ALLEN PROBES

Manish J. Mithaiwala*1, Chris Crabtree1, Gurudas Ganguli1, Leonid Rudakov2, Kunihiro Keika3

1Plasma Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda, MD
3Solar-Terrestrial Laboratory, Nagoya, JAPAN


16:00  H1-8  LARGE-AMPLITUDE OBLIQUE WHISTLER WAVES AND RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON ACCELERATION

Peter H. Yoon*

IPST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD


16:20  H1-9  THEORETICAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RADIATION BELT ELECTRON PRECIPITATION BY COHERENT WHISTLER MODE WAVES: PHASE-TRAPPING, WAVE AMPLITUDE DEPENDENCE, AND PULSING.

Vijay Harid*1, Mark Golkowski2, Timothy F. Bell1, Maria Spasojevic1, Donald Carpenter1, Justin Li1, Umran S. Inan1

1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, CO


16:40  H1-10  EFFECTS OF CHORUS ON RADIATION BELT ELECTRON DYNAMICS MODELED USING TEST PARTICLE SIMULATIONS

Xin Tao*1, Jacob Bortnik1, Jay M. Albert2, Richard M. Thorne1, Wen Li1

1Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2Air Force Research Lab/RVBXR, Albuquerque


17:00  H1-11  RECENT RESULTS FROM THE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELD INSTRUMENT SUITE AND INTEGRATED SCIENCE (EMFISIS) ON THE VAN ALLEN PROBES

Craig Kletzing*

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA