Van Allen Probes Research Some of the Most Downloaded

Among other New Mexico Consortium (NMC) news and highlights, four papers from the Van Allen Probes project at the NMC were among the top 10% downloaded papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) Space Physics, and one paper was in the top 10% of downloaded papers in Geophysical Research Letters.

The NMC wants to congratulate the Van Allen Probes scientists, Geoff Reeves, Mick Denton, Xiangrong Fu, Maria Voskresenskaya, Alex Boyd, Cristian Ferradas, Brian Larsen, Reiner Friedel, Yue Chen, Greg Cunningham, Mike Henderson, Ruth Skoug, Steve Morley, Vania Jordanova, Andrew Walker, Phil Fernandes, and Lisa Winter.

This Van Allen Probes research, published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, includes:

• MMS, Van Allen Probes, GOES 13, and Ground‐Based Magnetometer Observations of EMIC Wave Events Before, During, and After a Modest Interplanetary Shock
• Energization of the Ring Current by Substorms
• An Empirical Model of Radiation Belt Electron Pitch Angle Distributions Based On Van Allen Probes Measurements
• Ion Injection Triggered EMIC Waves in the Earth’s Magnetosphere

This Van Allen Probes research, published in Geophysical Research Letters includes:

• What Causes Radiation Belt Enhancements: A Survey of the Van Allen Probes Era

What does this mean? These Van Allen Probes papers, published between January 2018 and December 2019, received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication. This research generated immediate impact in space science and helped to raise the visibility in both the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics and the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Congratulations again to all the scientists who have worked on this incredible research!

Article by Carrie Talus