In a companion paper, new models of waves from ground-based very low frequency transmitters and from lightning were presented. Ray-and-power tracing provided wave amplitudes as well as trajectories and wave normal angles throughout the plasmasphere. Here, these are used to evaluate diffusion of radiation belt electrons. These are combined with recent models of hiss and Coulomb collisions to find lifetimes and particle distributions. Butterfly pitch angle distributions and near-megaelectron volt electrons are produced, confirming the role of energy diffusion. Coulomb energy drag, while often omitted, is also found to be important and should not be neglected.

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Relativistic configuration-interaction calculations have been performed for anion binding energies of the entire actinide row using a corelike treatment of the 5f subshell: the same occupancy and universal jls restrictions are applied to the subshell throughout the basis of each neutral and anion calculation. We predict bound 7p attachments to all actinide ground state configurations except Fm, Md, and No. Additional anion bound states are formed by 7p attachment to excited thresholds in Pa and Lr as well as 7s attachments relative to excited open-s thresholds in Th, Pa, U, and Np. Of the 41 bound actinide anion states presented, over half are characterized here for the first time. The most unusual case is Pa − , where these ab initio calculations predict five bound anion states arising from four different configurations.