Аннотация:We try to summarize results of experimental and theoretical works demonstrating the close connection of auroral phenomena with the processes of the outer radiation belt formation in the magnetosphere of the Earth. Anomalously high relativistic electron fluxes in the outer radiation belt are frequently named electrons-killers. Such electrons formed due to seed population acceleration. The seed population is produced during storm time substorms. We discuss the auroral oval mapping to the equatorial plane and show its mapping to the outer part of the ring current.
We try to show that adiabatic acceleration can be rather important in the process of formation of anomalously high fluxes of relativistic electrons.