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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 9, 期 11, 页码 699-703出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2760
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- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award
- UC-Lab Fee programme
- NASA [NNX10AK99G, NNX09AF51G, NNX13AE34G]
- NSF [AGS-1203747]
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) [976399]
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- NASA LWS Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- NASA THEMIS [NAS5-02099, NNX12AJ55G]
- MAARBLE project
- MAARBLE FP7 project
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1203747] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [2013140001] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- NASA [43398, NNX12AJ55G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Radiation in space was the first discovery of the space age. Earth's radiation belts consist of energetic particles that are trapped by the geomagnetic field and encircle the planet(1). The electron radiation belts usually form a two-zone structure with a stable inner zone and a highly variable outer zone, which forms and disappears owing to wave-particle interactions on the timescale of a day, and is strongly influenced by the very-low-frequency plasma waves. Recent observations revealed a third radiation zone at ultrarelativistic energies(2), with the additional medium narrow belt (long-lived ring) persisting for approximately 4 weeks. This new ring resulted from a combination of electron losses to the interplanetary medium and scattering by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves to the Earth's atmosphere. Here we show that ultrarelativistic electrons can stay trapped in the outer zone and remain unaffected by the very-low-frequency plasma waves for a very long time owing to a lack of scattering into the atmosphere. The absence of scattering is explained as a result of ultrarelativistic particles being too energetic to resonantly interact with waves at low latitudes. This study shows that a different set of physical processes determines the evolution of ultrarelativistic electrons.
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