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Precipitation of energetic magnetospheric electrons and accompanying solar wind characteristics

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From 1957 up to the present time, the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) has performed regular monitoring of ionizing radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere. There are cases when the X-ray radiation generated by energetic magnetospheric electrons penetrates the atmosphere and is observed at polar latitudes. The vast majority of these events occurs against the background of high-velocity solar wind streams, while magnetospheric perturbations related to interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are noneffective for precipitation. It is shown in the paper that ICMEs do not cause acceleration of a sufficient amount of electrons in the magnetosphere. Favorable conditions for acceleration and subsequent scattering of electrons into the loss cone are created by magnetic storms with an extended recovery phase and with sufficiently frequent periods of negative Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Such geomagnetic perturbations are typical for storms associated with high-velocity solar wind streams.

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  1. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    G. A. Bazilevskaya, M. S. Kalinin, A. N. Kvashnin, M. B. Krainev, V. S. Makhmutov, A. K. Svirzhevskaya, N. S. Svirzhevsky & Yu. I. Stozhkov

  2. Polar Geophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184209, Russia

    Yu. V. Balabin & B. B. Gvozdevsky

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Bazilevskaya, M.S. Kalinin, A.N. Kvashnin, M.B. Krainev, V.S. Makhmutov, A.K. Svirzhevskaya, N.S. Svirzhevsky, Yu.I. Stozhkov, Yu.V. Balabin, B.B. Gvozdevsky, 2017, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 164–172.

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Bazilevskaya, G.A., Kalinin, M.S., Kvashnin, A.N. et al. Precipitation of energetic magnetospheric electrons and accompanying solar wind characteristics. Geomagn. Aeron. 57, 147–155 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793217020025

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