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The last decade has been good for studying radiation belt physics. A primary reason for this is NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission, a pair of satellites bristling with a robust assortment of sensors carefully designed to assess the physical properties of relativistic electrons and the other particles and electromagnetic fields responsible for electron dynamics in near-Earth space. Collecting data for just over seven years, these twin satellites provide us with arguably the biggest and best data set humanity as ever had for disentangling the physics of the radiation belts. The data from the Van Allen Probes mission is augmented by that from several other missions that also surveyed this same region of outer space, namely the Time-History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS) mission, the Magneto spheric Multiscale Mission, the Arase mission, geosynchronous orbiting spacecraft, and low-Earth orbiting spacecraft, in particular several CubeSat missions. There has also been an extensive long-duration high-altitude balloon program in recent years focused on energetic electron physics, in particular the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) campaign, for which 40 such payloads were launched from the ice sheets of Antarctica. The analysis of all of this data was enhanced through the use of theoretical advancements and improved numerical tools, including sophisticated suites of coupled models. The end result has been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new studies about the radiation belts, written and published in the peer-reviewed disciplinary journals over the last decade, yielding a substantially new understanding of the energetic particle environment encircling our planet. The need of an updated holistic view on this topic is, therefore, critical.
Radiation Belts and Their Environment
Charged Particles in Near-Earth Space
From Charged Particles to Plasma Physics
Plasma Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere
Drivers and Properties of Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere
Particle Source and Loss Processes
Dynamics of the Electron Belts
A Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
B Satellites and Data Sources