Article
Correlation of Changes in the Outer-Zone Relativistic-Electron Population with Upstream Solar Wind Measurements
Geophysical Research Letters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Disciplines
Abstract
A study has been made of the correlation of the population of relativistic electrons in the outer-zone magnetosphere with the properties of the solar wind (speed, density, magnetic field) during a solar minimum period. The study is based upon observations made in the Spring of 1995 with sensors aboard 1994-026 and WIND. It is found that a large relativistic electron enhancement depends upon a substantial solar-wind speed increase associated with precursor solar-wind density enhancement, and, in particular, upon a southward turning of the interplanetary magnetic field
Identifier
10.1029/97GL00859
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Citation Information
Blake, J.B., Baker, D.N., Turner, N., Ogilvie, K.W., & Lepping, R.P. (1997). Correlation of changes in the outer-zone relativistic-electron population with upstream solar wind and magnetic field measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 24(8), 927-929. doi: 10.1029/97GL00859