Not listed THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS AN IDEAL LABORATORY FOR STUDYING WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN PLASMAS. IN RECENT YEARS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES HAVE INCREASED THE RELIABILITY AND SCIENTIFIC FIDELITY OF CUBESAT MISSIONS TO STUDY ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) AND THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO OTHER HIGH ALTITUDE SPACECRAFT SUCH AS THE VAN ALLEN PROBES (RBSP). THIS RESEARCH PLAN WILL TIE TOGETHER ELECTRON MICROBURST MEASUREMENTS FROM FIREBIRD-II AND AEROCUBE-6 (AC-6) CUBESATS IN LEO TO WAVE AND PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS MADE BY RBSP NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR TO STUDY THE WAVE-PARTICLE SCATTERING MECHANISMS. TO UNDERSTAND IF COHERENT CHORUS IS NECESSARY TO SCATTER MICROBURST ELECTRONS A SCALE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MICROBURST WILL BE CALCULATED USING AC-6 AND COMPARED TO PRIOR ESTIMATES OF CHORUS COHERENCE AND SOURCE SCALE SIZES NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR. FURTHERMORE MICROBURST PRECIPITATION FROM THE OUTER RADIATION BELT WILL BE MODELED AND COMPARED TO OBSERVATIONS DURING CONJUNCTIONS BETWEEN FIREBIRD-II AND RBSP TO UNDERSTAND IF THE TRANSPORT PREDICTED BY QUASI-LINEAR DIFFUSION THEORY CAN REPRODUCE THE OBSERVED MICROBURST TIME SERIES AND ENERGY SPECTRA $45.0k 7/12/19 P00001 THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS AN IDEAL LABORATORY FOR STUDYING WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN PLASMAS. IN RECENT YEARS, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES HAVE INCREASED THE RELIABILITY AND SCIENTIFIC FIDELITY OF CUBESAT MISSIONS TO STUDY ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO), AND THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO OTHER HIGH ALTITUDE SPACECRAFT SUCH AS THE VAN ALLEN PROBES (RBSP). THIS RESEARCH PLAN WILL TIE TOGETHER ELECTRON MICROBURST MEASUREMENTS FROM FIREBIRD-II AND AEROCUBE-6 (AC-6) CUBESATS IN LEO, TO WAVE AND PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS MADE BY RBSP NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR, TO STUDY THE WAVE-PARTICLE SCATTERING MECHANISMS. TO UNDERSTAND IF COHERENT CHORUS IS NECESSARY TO SCATTER MICROBURST ELECTRONS, A SCALE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MICROBURST WILL BE CALCULATED USING AC-6 AND COMPARED TO PRIOR ESTIMATES OF CHORUS COHERENCE AND SOURCE SCALE SIZES NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR. FURTHERMORE, MICROBURST PRECIPITATION FROM THE OUTER RADIATION BELT WILL BE MODELED AND COMPARED TO OBSERVATIONS DURING CONJUNCTIONS BETWEEN FIREBIRD-II AND RBSP, TO UNDERSTAND IF THE TRANSPORT PREDICTED BY QUASI-LINEAR DIFFUSION THEORY CAN REPRODUCE THE OBSERVED MICROBURST TIME SERIES AND ENERGY SPECTRA Funding Only Action $45.0k 7/12/19 Not listed THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS AN IDEAL LABORATORY FOR STUDYING WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN PLASMAS. IN RECENT YEARS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES HAVE INCREASED THE RELIABILITY AND SCIENTIFIC FIDELITY OF CUBESAT MISSIONS TO STUDY ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) AND THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO OTHER HIGH ALTITUDE SPACECRAFT SUCH AS THE VAN ALLEN PROBES (RBSP). THIS RESEARCH PLAN WILL TIE TOGETHER ELECTRON MICROBURST MEASUREMENTS FROM FIREBIRD-II AND AEROCUBE-6 (AC-6) CUBESATS IN LEO TO WAVE AND PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS MADE BY RBSP NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR TO STUDY THE WAVE-PARTICLE SCATTERING MECHANISMS. TO UNDERSTAND IF COHERENT CHORUS IS NECESSARY TO SCATTER MICROBURST ELECTRONS A SCALE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MICROBURST WILL BE CALCULATED USING AC-6 AND COMPARED TO PRIOR ESTIMATES OF CHORUS COHERENCE AND SOURCE SCALE SIZES NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR. FURTHERMORE MICROBURST PRECIPITATION FROM THE OUTER RADIATION BELT WILL BE MODELED AND COMPARED TO OBSERVATIONS DURING CONJUNCTIONS BETWEEN FIREBIRD-II AND RBSP TO UNDERSTAND IF THE TRANSPORT PREDICTED BY QUASI-LINEAR DIFFUSION THEORY CAN REPRODUCE THE OBSERVED MICROBURST TIME SERIES AND ENERGY SPECTRA $44.3k 7/12/18 Not listed THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS AN IDEAL LABORATORY FOR STUDYING WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN PLASMAS. IN RECENT YEARS, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES HAVE INCREASED THE RELIABILITY AND SCIENTIFIC FIDELITY OF CUBESAT MISSIONS TO STUDY ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO), AND THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO OTHER HIGH ALTITUDE SPACECRAFT SUCH AS THE VAN ALLEN PROBES (RBSP). THIS RESEARCH PLAN WILL TIE TOGETHER ELECTRON MICROBURST MEASUREMENTS FROM FIREBIRD-II AND AEROCUBE-6 (AC-6) CUBESATS IN LEO, TO WAVE AND PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS MADE BY RBSP NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR, TO STUDY THE WAVE-PARTICLE SCATTERING MECHANISMS. TO UNDERSTAND IF COHERENT CHORUS IS NECESSARY TO SCATTER MICROBURST ELECTRONS, A SCALE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MICROBURST WILL BE CALCULATED USING AC-6 AND COMPARED TO PRIOR ESTIMATES OF CHORUS COHERENCE AND SOURCE SCALE SIZES NEAR THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR. FURTHERMORE, MICROBURST PRECIPITATION FROM THE OUTER RADIATION BELT WILL BE MODELED AND COMPARED TO OBSERVATIONS DURING CONJUNCTIONS BETWEEN FIREBIRD-II AND RBSP, TO UNDERSTAND IF THE TRANSPORT PREDICTED BY QUASI-LINEAR DIFFUSION THEORY CAN REPRODUCE THE OBSERVED MICROBURST TIME SERIES AND ENERGY SPECTRA Not listed $44.3k 7/12/18