* highlights student work
** highlights postdoc/scientist work
M. Gillon, E. Ducrot, T. J. Bell, Z. Huang**, A. Lincowski, X. Lyu, A. Maurel, A. Revol, E. Agol, E. Bolmont, C. F. Dong, T. J. Fauchez, D. D. B. Koll, J. Leconte, V. S. Meadows, F. Selsis, M. Turbet, B. Charnay, L. Delre, B.-O. Demory, A. Householder, S. Zieba, D. Berardo, A. Dyrek, B. Edwards, J. de Wit, T. P. Greene, R. Hu, N. Iro, L. Kreidberg, P.-O. Lagage, J. Lustig-Yaeger, A. Iyer, No thick atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1b and c from JWST thermal phase curves, Nature Astronomy, in press (2026). arXiv:2509.02128
C. Zhang**, C. F. Dong, H. Zhou**, J. Halekas, M. Yamauchi, H. Nilsson, T. Z. Liu, M. Persson, S. Curry, Y. Dong, Y. Futaana, Y. Chen**, M. Zhou, R. Suranga, K. G. Hanley, C. Mazelle, S. Xu, R. Ramstad, M. Holmström, L.-J. Chen, Anomalous Transient Enhancement of Planetary Ion Escape at Mars, Nature Communications 16, 3159 (2025).
Z. Huang**, C. F. Dong, L. Wang**, Machine-learning heat flux closure for multi-moment fluid modeling of nonlinear Landau damping, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2419073122 (2025). arXiv:2503.11090
J. Gao**, S. Li, A. Mittelholz, Z. Rong, M. Persson, Z. Shi**, H. Lu, C. Zhang**, X. Wang, C. F. Dong, L. Klinger, J. Cui, Y. Wei, Y. Pan, Two distinct current systems in the ionosphere of Mars, Nature Communications 15, 9704 (2024).
TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST, Nature Astronomy 8, 810-818 (2024). arXiv:2310.15895
C. Zhang**, H. Nilsson, Y. Ebihara, M. Yamauchi, M. Persson, Z. Rong, J. Zhong, C. F. Dong, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, Y. Sun, Y. Harada, J. Halekas, S. Xu, Y. Futaana, Z. Shi, C. Yuan, X. Yun, S. Fu, J. Gao, M. Holmstrom, Y. Wei, S. Barabash, Detection of magnetospheric ion drift patterns at Mars, Nature Communications 14, 6866 (2023).
C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, T. A. Sandstrom, A. Bhattacharjee, Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Science Advances 8, eabn7627 (2022). arXiv:2210.10736
S. Orsini et al., Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission, Nature Communications 13, 7390 (2022).
J. L. Green, D. Draper, S. Boardsen, and C. F. Dong, When the Moon had a Magnetosphere, Science Advances 6, eabc0865 (2020).
C. F. Dong, M. Jin, M. Lingam, V. S. Airapetian, Y. J. Ma, B. van der Holst, Atmospheric escape from the TRAPPIST-1 planets and implications for habitability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 260-265 (2018) arXiv:1705.05535
C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, A. Bhattacharjee, Role of the Plasmoid Instability in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Physical Review Letters 121, 165101 (2018). arXiv:1804.07361
T. Z. Zhao*, K. Behm*, C. F. Dong, X. Davoine, S. Y. Kalmykov, V. Petrov, V. Chvykov, P. Cummings, B. Hou, A. Maksimchuk, J. A. Nees, V. Yanovsky, A. G. R. Thomas, and K. Krushelnick, High Flux Femtosecond X-ray Emission from Controlled Generation of Annular Electron Beams in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator, Physical Review Letters 117, 094801 (2016).
S.W. Bougher et al., Early MAVEN Deep Dip campaign reveals thermosphere and ionosphere variability, Science 350, aad0459 (2015).
B.M. Jakosky et al., MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection, Science 350, aad0210 (2015).