SMILE Network

 

Publications from MWG activities:

  • Samsonov, A., Carter, J. A., Read, A., Sembay, S., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Sibeck, D., & Escoubet, P. (2022). Finding Magnetopause Standoff Distance using a Soft X-ray Imager – Part 1: Magnetospheric masking. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030848. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030848

  • Samsonov, A., Sembay, S., Read, A., Carter, J. A., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Sibeck, D., & Escoubet, P. (2022). Finding Magnetopause Standoff Distance using a Soft X-ray Imager – Part 2: Methods to Analyze 2-D X-ray Images. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030850. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030850.

  • Jung, J., Connor, H. K., Carter, J. A., Koutroumpa, D., Pagani, C., & Kuntz, K. D. (2022). Solar minimum exospheric neutral density near the subsolar magnetopause estimated from the XMM soft X-ray observations on 12 November 2008. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA029676. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029676.

  • Zoennchen, J. H., Connor H. K., Jung, J., Nass, U., and Fahr, H. J. (2022), Terrestrial Exospheric Dayside H-density profile at 3-15 RE from UVIS/HDAC and TWINS Lyman-alpha data combined. Ann. Geophys., 40, 271–279. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-271-2022.

  • Zhang, Yingjie, Sun, Tianran, Wang, Chi et al. (2022), Solar Wind Charge Exchange Soft X-Ray Emissions in the Magnetosphere during an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Compared to Its Driven Sheath, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 932:L1 (8pp).

  • Jorgensen, A. M., Xu, R., Sun, T., Huang, Y., Li, L., Dai, L., & Wang, C. (2022), A theoretical study of the tomographic reconstruction of magnetosheath X-ray emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA029948. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029948

  • Wang, Chi, and Sun, Tianran (2022), Methods to derive the magnetopause from soft X‑ray images by the SMILE mission, Geoscience Letters, 9:30, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-022-00240-z

  • Guo, Y., T. Sun, C. Wang, S. Sembay, Deriving the magnetopause position from wide field-of-view soft X-ray imager simulation. Sci. China Earth Sci. 65, 1601–1611 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9937-y

  • Boudouridis, A., Connor, H. K., Lummerzheim, D., Ridley, A. J., & Zesta, E. (2021). Changes in the magnetic field topology and the dayside/nightside reconnection rates in response to a solar wind dynamic pressure front: A case study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028768.

  • Walsh, B. M., Collier, M. R., Atz, E., Billingsley, L., Broll, J. M., Connor, H. K., et al. (2021). The Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CuPID) CubeSat Observatory: Mission overview. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA029015.

  • Connor, H. K., Sibeck, D. G., Collier, M. R., Baliukin, I. I., Branduardi‐Raymont, G., Brandt, P. C., Jung, J., et al. (2021). Soft X‐ray and ENA imaging of the Earth's dayside magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028816.

  • Sun T., Wang X., Wang C. (2021),Tangent directions of the cusp boundary derived from the simulated soft X-ray image, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028314. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028314

  • Guo Y, Wang C, Wei F, Sun T, Yu X, Peng S, Branduardi-raymont G, Sembay S. (2021), A Lunar-based Soft X-ray Imager (LSXI) for the Earth’s magnetosphere, Science China Earth Sciences, 64(7): 1026–1035, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9792-5

  • Sun, T., C. Wang, H. K. Connor, A. M. Jorgensen, and S. Sembay (2020), Deriving the magnetopause position from the soft X-ray image by using the tangent fitting approach, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028169.

  • Ma, Q., H. K. Connor, X.-J. Zhang, W. Li, X.-C. Shen, D. Gillespie, C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kurth, G. B. Hospodarsky, S. G. Claudepierre, G. D. Reeves, and H. E. Spence (2020), Global survey of Plasma Sheet Electron Precipitation due to Whistler Mode Chorus Waves in the Earth’s Magnetosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, http://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088798.

  • Jorgensen, A. M. , T. R. Sun, C. Wang, L. Dai, S. Sembay, F. Wei, Y. H. Guo, R. L. Xu, (2019). Boundary Detection in Three Dimensions With Application to the SMILE Mission: the Effect of Photon Noise, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025919

  • Jorgensen, A. M. , T. R. Sun, C. Wang, L. Dai, S. Sembay, J. H. Zheng, X. Z. Yu, (2019). Boundary Detection in Three Dimensions With Application to the SMILE Mission: the Effect of Model-fitting Noise, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026124

  • Sun, T. R., Wang, C., Sembay, S., Lopez, R. E., Escoubet, P., Branduardi-Raymont, G., et al. (2019). Soft X-ray imaging of the magnetosheath and cusps under different solar wind conditions: MHD simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026093

  • Connor, H. K.,and J. A. Carter (2019), Exospheric neutral hydrogen density at the nominal 10RE subsolar point deduced from XMM-Newton X-ray observations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026187

  • Peng S., Ye Y., Wei F., Yang Z., Guo Y., Sun T. (2018), Numerical model built for the simulation of the earth magnetopause by lobster-eye-type soft X-ray imager onboard SMILE satellite, Optics Express, 26(12), 15,138-15,152, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015138

  • Guo Y., Peng S., Wei F., Sun T., Wang Y., Leng S. (2018), Design and simulation of soft X-ray imager on SMILE satellite, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 61(11):4348-4355, doi:10.6038/cjg2018L0734.

  • Collier, M. R. and H. K. Connor(2018), Magnetopause Surface Reconstruction from Tangent Vector Observations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1029/22018JA025763

  • Samsonov, A. A., D. G. Sibeck, et al., (2018), Magnetosheath Propagation Time of Solar Wind Directional Discontinuities, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025174.

  • Sun, T. R., C. Wang, F. Wei, and S. Sembay (2015), X-ray imaging of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at the magnetopause, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, 266–275, http://doi.org/10.1029/2014JA020497.

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Contact us:

  • Hyunju Connor, hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov
  • Tianran Sun, trsun@swl.ac.cn
  • Andrei Samsonov, a.samsonov@ucl.ac.uk