* highlights student work
** highlights postdoc/scientist work
Y. Chen**, C. F. Dong, L.-J. Chen, M. Sarantos, B. L. Burkholder, Interplanetary Magnetic Field By Controlled Alfvén Wings at Earth During an Encounter of a Coronal Mass Ejection, Geophys. Res. Lett. 52, e2024GL113416 (2025). arXiv:2402.04282
Z. Shi*, Z. Rong, S. Fatemi, C. F. Dong, L. Klinger, J. Gao, J. Slavin, F. He, Y. Wei, M. Holmström, S. Barabash, Mercury's Field-Aligned Currents: Perspectives From Hybrid Simulations, J. Geophys. Res. Planets 130, e2024JE008610 (2025).
Y. Chen**, C. F. Dong, W. Sun, Transport and Distribution of Sodium Ions in Mercury's Magnetosphere: Results From Multi-Fluid MHD Simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett. 51, e2024GL110301 (2024).
L.-J. Chen, D. Gershman, B. Burkholder, Y. Chen, M. Sarantos, L. Jian, J. Drake, C. F. Dong, H. Gurram, J. Shuster, D. B. Graham, O. Le Contel, S. J. Schwartz, S. Fuselier, H. Madanian, C. Pollock, H. Liang, M. Argall, R. E. Denton, R. Rice, J. Beedle, K. Genestreti, A. Ardakani, A. Stanier, A. Le, J. Ng, N. Bessho, M. Pandya, F. Wilder, C. Gabrielse, I. Cohen, H. Wei, C. T. Russell, R. Ergun, R. Torbert, J. Burch, Earth's Alfvén Wings Driven by the April 2023 Coronal Mass Ejection, Geophys. Res. Lett. 51, e2024GL108894 (2024). arXiv:2402.08091
B. Burkholder, L.-J. Chen, M. Sarantos, D. Gershman, M. Argall, Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, F. Wilder, O. Le Contel, H. Gurram, Global Magnetic Reconnection During Sustained Sub‐Alfvénic Solar Wind Driving, Geophys. Res. Lett. 51, e2024GL108311 (2024).
H. Gunell, L. Roth, S. Fatemi, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Ganymede’s Aurora, Chapter in the Book "Ganymede", Cambridge University Press, in press (2024).
J. L. Green, S. Boardsen, C. F. Dong, Effects of the Evolving Early Moon and Earth Magnetospheres, Front. Astron. Space Sci. 10:1112233 (2023).
S. Orsini et al., Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission, Nature Communications 13, 7390 (2022).
Z. Shi*, Z. J. Rong, S. Fatemi, J. A. Slavin, L. Klinger, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, J. Zhong, J. M. Raines, M. Holmström, C. J. Yuan, S. Barabash, Y. Wei, An Eastward Current Encircling Mercury, Geophys. Res. Lett. 49, e2022GL098415 (2022).
R. A. Bamford, B. J. Kellett, J. L. Green, C. F. Dong, V. Airapetian, and R. Bingham, How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars, Acta Astronautica 190, 323-333 (2022).
J. L. Green, S. Boardsen, and C. F. Dong, Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection, ApJ Letters 907, L45 (2021). arXiv:2012.11694, Press Release in Astrobiology Web
V. Mangano et al., BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury, Space Science Reviews 217, 23 (2021).
S. Orsini et al., SERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo, Space Science Reviews 217, 11 (2021).
J. L. Green, D. Draper, S. Boardsen, and C. F. Dong, When the Moon had a Magnetosphere, Science Advances 6, eabc0865 (2020).
M. Laneuville, C. F. Dong, J. G. O'Rourke, A. C. Schneider, Magnetic Fields on Rocky Planets, Chapter in the Book "Planetary Diversity", AAS | IOP Astronomy (2020).
A. Milillo et al., Investigating Mercury’s Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission, Space Science Reviews 216, 93 (2020).
L. Wang, A. Hakim, J. Ng, C. F. Dong, K. Germaschewski, Exact and Locally Implicit Source Term Solvers for Multifluid-Maxwell Systems, Journal of Computational Physics 415, 109510 (2020). arXiv:1909.04125
S. Jarmak*, E. Leonard, A. Akins, E. Dahl, D. R. Cremons, S. Cofield, A. Curtis, C. F. Dong, E. T. Dunham, B. Journaux, D. Murakami, W. Ng, M. Piquette, A. P. Girija, K. Rink, L. Schurmeier, N. Stein, N. Tallarida, M. Telus, L. Lowes, C. Budney, K. L. Mitchell, QUEST: A New Frontiers Uranus Orbiter Mission Concept Study, Acta Astronautica 170, 6-26 (2020).
C. F. Dong, L. Wang, A. Hakim, A. Bhattacharjee, J. A. Slavin, G. A. DiBraccio, K. Germaschewski, Global Ten-Moment Multifluid Simulations of the Solar Wind Interaction with Mercury: From the Planetary Conducting Core to the Dynamic Magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 11584-11596 (2019). arXiv:1904.02695
C. F. Dong, Z. G. Huang, M. Lingam, Role of Planetary Obliquity in Regulating Atmospheric Escape: G-dwarf versus M-dwarf Earth-like Exoplanets, ApJ Letters 882, L16 (2019). arXiv:1907.07459; Highlight on AAS Nova, Press Release in Astrobiology Web.
J. A. Slavin, H. Middleton, J. Raines, X. Z. Jia, J. Zhong, W.-J. Sun, S. Livi, S. Imber, G. K. Poh, M. Akhavan-Tafti, J. Jasinski, G. DiBraccio, C. F. Dong, R. Dewey, M. L. Mays, MESSENGER Observations of Disappearing Dayside Magnetosphere Events at Mercury, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 124, 6613-6635 (2019).
L. Wang, K. Germaschewski, A. Hakim, C. F. Dong, J. Raeder, A. Bhattacharjee, Electron Physics in 3D Two-Fluid Ten-Moment Modeling of Ganymede's Magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 123, 2815-2830 (2018). arXiv:1802.02198 (JGR cover)
C. F. Dong, Z. G. Huang, M. Lingam, G. Toth, T. I. Gombosi, A. Bhattacharjee, The dehydration of water worlds via atmospheric losses, ApJ Letters 847, L4 (2017). arXiv:1709.01219; Press Release in Astrobiology Web, News Stories in Universe Today, Harvard-Cfa, Phys.org and Science Alert etc.