Rapid loss of the plasma sheet energetic electrons associated with the growth of whistler mode waves inside the bursty bulk flows

During the interval ~07:45:36–07:54:24 UT on 24 August 2005, Cluster satellites (C1 and C3) observed an obvious loss of energetic electrons (~3.2–95 keV) associated with the growth of whistler mode waves inside some bursty bulk flows (BBFs) in the midtail plasma sheet (XGSM ~ −17.25 RE). However, the fluxes of the higher‐energy electrons (≥128 keV) and energetic ions (10–160 keV) were relatively stable in the BBF‐impacted regions. The energy‐dependent electron loss inside the BBFs is mainly due to the energy‐selective pitch angle scatterings by whistler mode waves within the time scales from several seconds to several minutes, and the electron scatterings in different pitch angle distributions are different in the wave growth regions. The plasma sheet energetic electrons have mainly a quasi‐perpendicular pitch angle distribution (30°

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