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Solène Lejosne and Forrest MozerUniversity of California, Berkeley
What Can Be Learned from the Van Allen Probe Measurements of the Electric Drift in the Inner
Magnetosphere?
Acknowledgments: Jack Vernetti & UCB team, RBSP team
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What I’m going to talk about…
2. Ground–truth measurements (!)
1. Van Allen Probes = accurate enough to
characterize electric drift inside L~3 (!)
3. Indication of a small but persistent subcorotation (?!)
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The Van Allen Probes (RBSP A and RBSP B)
Apogee: 5.8 Perigee: 600+ kmPeriod: 9 hInclination: Full Local Time coverage: 2- years
5.8
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Electric field and electric drift measurements
Pictures from the 1st double probe DC electric field measurements, in 1966 [Mozer, 2016]
Electric field measurements = challenging
That is particularly true closest to Earth:
𝐄 (measured )=𝐄 ( inertial )+𝐕𝐒𝐂×𝐁
Electric Field Measured
SpacecraftVelocity
Electric Field of Interest
Magnetic Field
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First Results
1) Database of Electric Drift L < 3
• 2+ years (Oct12 - Dec14)
• 2 probes
• Spin-period averaged data (~12 s)
2) Maps of Typical Electric Drifts L < 3
• Function of different parameters (L,MLT, geographic longitude, UT, ...)
(km
.s-1)
Azimuthal Electric Drifts
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Electric Drift Shell Splitting in the Inner Belt (1/2)The electron intensity at L=1.3 suggests a distortion of the drift shell by a dawn-dusk electric field
Equa
toria
l e- i
nten
sity
MLT∈ [ 4 ;6 ]
MLT∈ [ 20 ;22 ]
L~1.3
(adapted from [Selesnick et al., 2016])
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Electric Drift Shell Splitting in the Inner Belt (2/2)The measurements confirm the existence of an electric drift shell splitting, of a few tens of km (!)
From Selesnick et al. [2016]From measurements
Tracking drift trajectories of guiding centers
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Subcorotation of the Plasmasphere (1/2)The tracking of plasmaspheric notches (IMAGE-EUV) indicates the existence of a corotational lag at L~2.5
(adapted from [Galvan et al., 2010])
L~2.5C
orot
atio
n Fa
ctor
Van Allen Probe Medians
Quartiles
Medians
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Subcorotation of the Plasmasphere (2/2)The measurements show that the electric drift is typically smaller than corotation inside L ~ 2.5+
L
Supercorotation
Subcorotation
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Mapping along field lines to the ionosphereThe subcorotation of the plasmasphere leads to difficulties when mapping the electric drift up to the ionosphere
Similar to average plasma drifts over
Arecibo
Simple Mapping
L~1.4 Mapping with Subcorotation
East
war
d Ve
loci
ty
(m.s
-1)
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Thank you for your attention!
Database of electric drift measurements inside L~3
Reference for modeling
Reference for case studies
Reference for ionosphere magnetospherestudies