Table 1 Adopted model parameters for chorusa.

From: Wave-driven butterfly distribution of Van Allen belt relativistic electrons

MLT

fm/fce

δf/fce

λ m

Ne (cm−3)

fpe/fce

B t (pT)

00–04

0.25

0.05

15°

12.2

3.9

63

04–08

0.23

0.05

25°

14.0

4.3

73

08–12

0.21

0.04

45°

20.7

5.2

10(0.75+0.04λ)

12–16

0.20

0.04

40°

25.6

5.7

36

20–24

0.35

0.05

40°

17.1

4.7

81

  1. MLT, magnetic local time.
  2. No realistic data available either in 08–12 or in 16–20 MLT.
  3. aChorus wave parameters either obtained from direct observations by the Van Allen Probes or inferred from POES data or from the previous parametric result36.
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