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Nature Physics 3, 590 - 591 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys703
Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Plasma physics
Plasma astrophysics: Acceleration of killer electrons
Richard Bertram Horne1
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Richard Bertram Horne is at the British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.
e-mail: R.Horne@bas.ac.uk
Abstract
Relativistic electrons in the outer Van Allen belt wreak havoc with satellites in geosynchronous orbit, but how they reach such high energies has been unclear. New data identify gyro-resonant wave–particle interactions as the culprit.
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