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Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at Uranus: Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations — arXiv:2611.02221

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Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at Uranus: Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations — arXiv:2611.02221 — arXiv (en), https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02221 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_2e80663bb5fc (Metraipolis archive dc_2e80663bb5fc, sha256 3bb00f6efcd08b5ad739d75e48cb5881d22bd876a5e0ab7f6840d52de5db31bb)

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@misc{dc2e80663bb5fc,
  title = {Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at Uranus: Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations — arXiv:2611.02221},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02221},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_2e80663bb5fc; sha256 3bb00f6efcd08b5ad739d75e48cb5881d22bd876a5e0ab7f6840d52de5db31bb},
  year = {2026}
}

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Voyager 2 provided the only direct measurement of the radiation environment at Uranus and established the well-accepted characterization of a system with a weaker ion radiation belt and surprisingly intense electron radiation belt. Recent re-analysis of the flyby, however, suggests that these observations were not taken during normal solar wind conditions, and instead occurred while a large solar wind transient, a corotating interaction region, was passing over the system. With this context, this study compares the Voyager 2 observations to a similar event observed at Earth. This comparative approach, along with an expanded contextual interpretation of the Voyager 2 flyby, suggests that solar wind-magnetospheric interactions at Uranus may have driven enhanced lower band chorus wave emissions capable of accelerating electrons to relativistic energies. This motivates new, more expansive questions to be explored at Uranus and highlights the need for a Uranus orbiter mission.

Tema degli esploratori: fisica e astronomia (elenco arXiv astro-ph.IM, nuovi lavori del giorno).
Categorie arXiv: Space Physics (physics.space-ph) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM).
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