Particles and photons as drivers for particle release from the surfaces of the Moon and Mercury

P Wurz, S Fatemi, A Galli, J Halekas, Y Harada… - Space science …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Moon and Mercury are airless bodies, thus they are directly exposed to the
ambient plasma (ions and electrons), to photons mostly from the Sun from infrared range all …

Bursty magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause triggered by high-speed jets

J Ng, LJ Chen, YA Omelchenko - Physics of Plasmas, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The impact of high-speed jets—dynamic pressure enhancements in the magnetosheath—on
the Earth's magnetopause has been observed to trigger local magnetic reconnection. We …

Correlations of plasma properties between the upstream magnetosheath and the downstream outflow region of magnetopause reconnection

Y Han, L Dai, Y Ren, C Wang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of upstream conditions on magnetopause reconnection has been an intriguing
question in solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling. In this study, we conduct a statistical …

Association of the Main Phase of the Geomagnetic Storms in Solar Cycles 23 and 24 With Corresponding Solar Wind‐IMF Parameters

V Manu, N Balan, QH Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence and intensity of the geomagnetic storms/activity in the weak solar cycle 24
(SC24) were studied mainly for low latitudes, with intensity being the maximum value of the …

Soft X‐Ray Imaging of Magnetopause Reconnection Outflows Under Low Plasma‐β Solar Wind Conditions

Y Matsumoto, Y Miyoshi - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We examined soft X‐ray emission by the solar wind charge‐exchange process around the
Earth's magnetosphere using a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation model. The …

Modulation of Magnetospheric Substorm Frequency: Dipole Tilt and IMF By Effects

A Ohma, JP Reistad, SM Hatch - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Substorm activity is heavily influenced by the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) Bz
component and magnetospheric substorms occur most frequently when Bz is strongly …

High‐energy electron flux enhancement pattern in the outer radiation belt in response to the interplanetary coronal mass ejections

LA Da Silva, J Shi, JP Marchezi… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐energy electron flux enhancement pattern in the outer radiation belt is observed
under the influence of the Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs). Ten events were …

Reconnection Rates at the Earth's Magnetopause and in the Magnetosheath

KR Pritchard, JL Burch, SA Fuselier… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconnection electric fields and normalized reconnection rates (RRs) were determined with
the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft for 14 reconnection events on the …

A feasibility study of 4-D tomography of soft X-ray magnetosheath emissivities using multi-spacecraft measurements

G Cucho-Padin, H Connor, J Jung… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Upcoming heliophysics missions utilize state-of-the-art wide field-of-view (FOV) imaging
technology to measure and investigate the space plasma environment on a global scale. At …

A “wave‐like” evolution of polar cap patches modulated by enhanced magnetopause reconnection and extended magnetotail reconnection

D Zhang, QH Zhang, K Oksavik… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A train of large‐scale polar cap patches was observed in the ionosphere during a period of
southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) during the main phase of a moderate …