thermal electron acceleration

Vasko, I. . Y., Agapitov, O., Mozer, F., & Artemyev, A. (2015). Thermal electron acceleration by electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt: Generation of field-aligned pitch angle distributions. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. http://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA021644 (Original work published October 2015)