Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2101 The University of Texas at Dallas (143989)
Principal Investigator: Zhang,Xiaojia
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 524,802
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 2/10/23 - 2/9/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Space Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: NSM
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Energetic Electron Scattering by Kinetic Alfven Waves in Earth's Radiation Belts
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
NASA
CFDA Link: NASA
43.001
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Aerospace Education Services Program
Note:
This project focuses on investigation of kinetic Alfven wave contributions to energetic (100-1000 keV) electron scattering and losses in the Earth’s inner magnetosphere/radiation belts. Thus, the project team consists of a specialist on wave and energetic particle measurements in space (project PI, Dr. Xiaojia Zhang, UTD), a specialist on observations and modeling of the wave-particle resonant interaction (project Co-I, Dr. Yangyang Shen, UCLA), and a specialist on theory and simulations of wave-particle interaction (project Co I, Prof. Dmitri Vainchtein, Drexel University). Dr. Xiaojia Zhang will be responsible for the project management, as well as for collecting and analyzing THEMIS and Van Allen Probes measurements of kinetic Alfven waves (broadband electrostatic emissions) in conjunction with ELFIN (twin CubeSats) measurements of energetic electron precipitations.
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