<< Back to Recent Meetings Van Allen Probes Instrument Team Meetings/SWG Meeting 25-27 October 2017 JHU/APL, Laurel, MD Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Welcome. Mission Status Kristin Fretz Sasha Ukhorskiy Energetic Particle Injections and Related Processes SCATHA Observations of Ion Injection Events (Robert Strangeway) Poynting flux at the PSBL in conjunction with the ground aurora (Sheng Tian) Outflow off the Beaten Path: Low Energy (< keV) O+ Outflow Directly Into the Inner Magnetosphere (Matina Gkioulidou) Ion injections inside geosynchronous orbit: Charge-dependent quasi-adiabatic acceleration (Don Mitchell) Role of Particle Trapping and Acceleration at Dipolarization Fronts for Buildup of the Ring Current and Radiation Belts (Sasha Ukhorskiy) Response of different ion species to local magnetic dipolarization inside GEO (Tetsuo Motoba) Nightside Pi2 wave properties during an extended period with stable plasmapause location and variable geomagnetic activity (Michael Hartinger) Detection of energetic ion injections using RBSPICE (German Farinas Perez) Global empirical model of substorms derived from space-borne magnetometer data (Grant Stephens) Observations of ion injection triggered EMIC waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere (Remya Bhanu) Plasma Waves and Wave-Particle Interactions Chorus wave model from combined Van Allen Probes and Cluster statistics (Oleksiy Agapitov) Quantifying the Effect of Strong Subpacket Structure in VLF Chorus Rising Tones on Radiation Belt Acceleration (John Foster) Van Allen Probes Observations of EMIC Wave Rising Tones: September 2017 Geomagnetic Storm and Statistical Study Update (Kristine Sigsbee) Evidence for a Potential Electron Microburst Observed on Van Allen Probes: MagEIS, RBSPICE, and EMFISIS (Seth Claudepierre) Poloidal Standing Alfvén Waves in the Midnight Sector (Kazue Takahashi) Chorus scale size (Homayon Aryan) Fast magnetosonic waves observed by Van Allen Probes: Testing local wave excitation mechanism (Kyungguk Min) Thursday, October 26, 2017 Multi-Mission Coordination RBSP-Arase Coordination. Summary of joint meeting in Kyoto (Sasha Ukhorskiy et al.) DSX Space Weather Experiment (William Robert (Bob) Johnston) MMS Mission Status (Ian Cohen) FIREBIRD-II Mission and Science Updates (Harlan Spence) AC6 Mission and Science Updates (Bern Bake) KUbeSat: a CubeSat mission by the University of Kansas (Jerry Manweiler) Summary of the RBSPICE Data Handbook (Jerry Manweiler) Systems Understanding. Radiation Belt Models Multi-Year Observations of Ultra-Relativistic Electrons (Dan Baker) Plasmasphere modulations at solar rotation period (Scott Thaller) Global Radiation Belt Modeling: Combined MHD, Ring Current and Test-Particle Simulations (Kareem Sorathia) Hybrid model for transmitted shock in the inner magnetosphere (Alexander Lipatov) Competition between radial loss and EMIC wave scattering of MeV electrons during strong CME-shock driven storms (Mary Hudson) Radiation belt response to reverse shocks (Ankush Bhaskar) Radiation Belt Electron Energy Spectra Characterization and Evolution Based on the Van Allen Probes Measurements (Hong Zhao) Peaks in Phase Space Density: A Survey of the Van Allen Probes Era (Alexander Boyd) Total Radiation Belt Electron Content of the Van Allen Probes Era (Chia-Lin Huang and Harlan Spence) Events and Techniques Van Allen Probes observations during September 2017 (Shri Kanekal) Determining Plasma Densities from Observations of Whistler-Mode Waves (David Hartley) Identification of butterfly pitch angle distribution shapes based on a neural network approach (Claudia Medeiros)