SM41E-2542
Automated Survey of Particle Injections Into the Inner Magnetosphere
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Thomas Sotirelis, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Matina Gkioulidou, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Donald G Mitchell, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States and Louis J Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States
Abstract:
Energetic particle injections associated with depolarizations have been seen for many years in the magnetotail and at geosynchronous orbit. Now, with Van Allen Probes we see similar signatures in the inner magnetosphere. However, boundary crossings can be mistaken for injection signatures seen only in particle observations. An automated analysis identifies particle injections into the inner magnetosphere in Van Allen Probes RBSPICE observations. Particle injections are distinguished from boundary crossings by through consideration of auxiliary observations. Dispersed injections are distinguished from undispersed injections and the spatial distributions for both are presented. Occurrence frequency as a function of activity is also presented.
