Shumko, MykhayloSample, JohnJohnson, ArloBlake, BernCrew, AlexSpence, HarlanKlumpar, DavidAgapitov, OleksiyHandley, Matthew2019-04-082019-04-082018-09Shumko, Mykhaylo, John Sample, Arlo Johnson, Bern Blake, Alex Crew, Harlan Spence, David Klumpar, Oleksiy Agapitov, and Matthew Handley. "Microburst Scale Size Derived From Multiple Bounces of a Microburst Simultaneously Observed With the FIREBIRD-II CubeSats." Geophysical Research Letters 45, no. 17 (September 2018): 8811-8818. DOI:10.1029/2018GL078925.1944-8007https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/15408We present the observation of a spatially large microburst with multiple bounces made simultaneously by the Focused Investigation of Relativistic Electron Bursts: Intensity, Range, and Dynamics II (FIREBIRD‐II) CubeSats on 2 February 2015. This is the first observation of a microburst with a subsequent decay made by two coorbiting but spatially separated spacecraft. From these unique measurements, we place estimates on the lower bounds of the spatial scales as well as quantify the electron bounce periods. The microburst's lower bound latitudinal scale size was 29 ± 1 km and the longitudinal scale size was 51 ± 1 km in low Earth orbit. We mapped these scale sizes to the magnetic equator and found that the radial and azimuthal scale sizes were at least 500 ± 10 km and 530 ± 10 km, respectively. These lower bound equatorial scale sizes are similar to whistler mode chorus wave source scale sizes, which supports the hypothesis that microbursts are a product of electron scattering by chorus waves. Lastly, we estimated the bounce periods for 200‐ to 800‐keV electrons and found good agreement with four common magnetic field models.enCC BY-NC-ND: This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the original creator, but you can’t change the work in any way or use it commercially.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcodeArticle