Ann. Geophys., 36, 781–791, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-781-2018 © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Van Allen Probes observation of plasmaspheric hiss modulated by injected energetic electrons Run Shi1, Wen Li1, Qianli Ma2,1, Seth G. Claudepierre3, Craig A. Kletzing4, William S. Kurth4, George B. Hospodarsky4, Harlan E. Spence5, Geoff D. Reeves6, Joseph F. Fennell3, J. Bernard Blake3, Scott A. Thaller7, and John R. Wygant7 1Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 3Space Science Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, USA 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA 5Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA 6Space Science and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 7School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Correspondence: Run Shi (
[email protected]) Received: 4 January 2018 – Discussion started: 17 January 2018 Revised: 30 March 2018 – Accepted: 3 April 2018 – Published: 23 May 2018 Abstract. Plasmaspheric hiss was observed by Van Allen 1 Introduction Probe B in association with energetic electron injections in the outer plasmasphere. The energy of injected electrons co- Plasmaspheric hiss plays an important