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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

Outer radiation belt of relativistic electrons in 2006-<strong>2010</strong>: GLONASS data<br />

Tverskaya Liudmila 1 , Balashov Sergey 2 , Iv<strong>an</strong>ov Vladimir 2 , Karpenko Dmitry 2 , Kochura Sergey 2 ,<br />

Maximov Igor 2 , Pavlov Nikolay 1 , Reizm<strong>an</strong> Svetl<strong>an</strong>a 1 , Rubinstein Iliya 1 , Sitnikova Ninel 2 , Teltsov<br />

Michael 1 , Trofimchuk Denis 2 , Tulupov Vladimir 1 , Vedenkin Nikolay 1<br />

1 Skobeltsyn <strong>Institut</strong>e of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia, 2 The<br />

Joint-stock Comp<strong>an</strong>y ”Academici<strong>an</strong> M.F. Reshetnev” Information Satellite Systems”, 52, Lenin Str.,<br />

Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, 662972, Russia<br />

We <strong>an</strong>alyze a dataset of 1 MeV electrons measured on GLONASS in 2006-<strong>2010</strong>. Radiation<br />

doze un<strong>der</strong> 2 g/cm 2 Al is also presented. The orbit is circular, 20000 km height, 65 degrees<br />

inclination; it well covers the outer radiation belt. Semi<strong>an</strong>nual-me<strong>an</strong> doze shows<br />

unprecedented decrease by ~20 times, from 2007 to 2009. This gives more th<strong>an</strong> or<strong>der</strong> of<br />

magnitude deviation from the model-based (AE8) prediction. Generally, fluxes of relativistic<br />

electrons become lower <strong>an</strong>d lower along these years, with yet rather high individual<br />

peaks. Seldom <strong>an</strong>d weakening storms leave quiescent periods in which diffusion waves of<br />

earthward moving belts of newly injected electrons c<strong>an</strong> be easily observed. Wave velocity<br />

well corresponds to the theory of L-diffusion of electrons driven by sudden geomagnetic<br />

impulses. Seasonal variation (with maxima around equinoxes) is seen but not in all periods<br />

<strong>an</strong>d not so well as we saw on GLONASS in 1994-1996. A most prominent breaking of the<br />

seasonal cycle is a high-amplitude peak in Dec 2006, resulted from injection by the strong<br />

geomagnetic storm; this storm also breaks seasonal variation of geomagnetic indices.

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