Publications by authors named "Vaughn Hoxie"
Article Synopsis
- - The Van Allen Probes mission used a distributed operational model where the Mission Operations Center (MOC) managed overall tasks while individual instrument-specific Science Operations Centers (SOCs) focused on data acquisition, processing, and instrument performance for their specific instruments.
- - Significant collaboration between the instrument SOCs and the project science team led to crucial discoveries through coordinated observations and cross-calibration of instruments during the mission.
- - Key lessons learned emphasized the value of having dedicated SOCs, which improved the quality and timeliness of instrument data for scientists studying magnetospheric and radiation belt phenomena.
Multiyear Measurements of Radiation Belt Electrons: Acceleration, Transport, and Loss.
J Geophys Res Space Phys
April 2019
In addition to clarifying morphological structures of the Earth's radiation belts, it has also been a major achievement of the Van Allen Probes mission to understand more thoroughly how highly relativistic and ultrarelativistic electrons are accelerated deep inside the radiation belts. Prior studies have demonstrated that electrons up to energies of 10 megaelectron volts (MeV) can be produced over broad regions of the outer Van Allen zone on timescales of minutes to a few hours. It often is seen that geomagnetic activity driven by strong solar storms (i.
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