SMILE

Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer

Publications

SMILE definition study report (Red Book), published 17 December 2018, shall be refereed to as follows

Branduardi-Raymont, G., Wang, C., Escoubet, C.P. et al., SMILE definition study report, European Space Agency, ESA/SCI, 1, 2018; https://doi.org/10.5270/esa.smile.definition_study_report-2018-12
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2023
Dai, L., Y. Han, C. Wang, S. Yao, W. Gonzalez, S. Duan1, B. Lavraud, Y. Ren, and Z. Guo, Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfvén Waves. I. Magnetopause Magnetic Reconnection and Directly Driven Substorms, ApJ., 945, 47, 2023; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb267

Petrinec, S. M., Kletzing, C. A., Bounds, S. R., Fuselier, S. A., Trattner, K. J., & Sawyer, R. P. (2023). TRICE-2 rocket observations in the low-altitude cusp: Boundaries and comparisons with models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030952. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030952

Wang, R. C., Li, D., Sun, T., Peng, X., Yang, Z., & Wang, J. Q. (2023). A 3D magnetospheric CT reconstruction method based on 3D GAN and supplementary limited-angle 2D soft X-ray images. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030424. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030424

2022
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

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

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

Matsumoto, Y., & Miyoshi, Y. (2022). Soft X-ray imaging of magnetopause reconnection outflows under low plasma-β solar wind conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101037. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101037

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: 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: 2. Methods to analyze 2-D X-ray images. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030850. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030850

Zhang, Y., T. Sun, C. Wang, L. Ji, J.A. Carter, S. Sembay, D. Koutroumpa, Y.D. Liu, G. Liang, W. Liu, W. Sun, X. Zhao, Solar Wind Charge Exchange Soft X-Ray Emissions in the Magnetosphere during an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Compared to Its Driven Sheath, ApJ. Lett., 932, L1, 2022; https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac7521

2021
Baraka, S. M., Le Contel, O., Ben-Jaffel, L., and Moore, W. B. (2021). The impact of radial and non-radial IMF on the Earth's magnetopause size, shape, and dawn-dusk asymmetry from global 3D kinetic simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029528. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029528

Carter, J. A., Samsonov, A. A., Milan, S. E., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Ridley, A. J., Paxton, L. J., et al. (2021). Field-aligned current during an interval of By-dominated interplanetary-field; modeled-to-observed comparisons. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029722. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029722

Connor, H. K.,  Sibeck, D. G.,  Collier, M. R.,  Baliukin, I. I.,  Branduardi‐Raymont, G.,  Brandt, P. C., , N.Y. Buzulukova, Y.M. Collado‐Vega, C.P. Escoubet, M.‐C. Fok, S.‐Y. Hsieh, J. Jung, S. Kameda, K.D. Kuntz, F.S. Porter, S. Sembay, T. Sun, B.M. Walsh, J.H. Zoennchen (2021).  Soft X‐ray and ENA imaging of the Earth's dayside magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  126, e2020JA028816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028816

Lei Dai , Chi Wang, and Benoit Lavraud,  (2021). Kinetic Imprints of Ion Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal, 919(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0fde

Huang, Y., L. Dai, C. Wang, R.L. Xu, L. Li, A new inversion method for reconstruction of plasmaspheric He+ density from EUV images, Earth Planet. Phys., 5(2), 218–222, 2021; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2021020

Su, B., L.G. Kong, A.B. Zhang, B. Klecker, C.P. Escoubet, D.O. Kataria, L. Dai, Performance and simulated moment uncertainties of an ion spectrometer with asymmetric 2π field of view for ion measurements in space, Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 024501 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028866

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

Tian, C.‐J.,  Du, H.‐D.,  Yang, P.‐L.,  Zhou, Z.‐M.,  Zhao, X.‐F., &  Zhou, S. (2020).  Automatic auroral boundary determination algorithm with deep feature and dual level set. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  125, e2020JA027833. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027833

2020
Hudec, R., G. Branduardi-Raymont, S. Sembay, V. Simon, European Space Agency SMILE and Czech participation, Astron. Nachr., 341, 341–347, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.202013785

Samsonov, A.A., Bogdanova, Y.V., Branduardi‐Raymont, G., Sibeck, D.G., Toth, G. (2020),  Is the relation between the solar wind dynamic pressure and the magnetopause standoff distance so straightforward?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2019GL086474. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086474

Sun, T., C. Wang, H.K. Connor, A.M. Jorgensen, S. Sembay, Deriving the magnetopause position from the soft X‐ray image by using the tangent fitting approach, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 125, e2020JA028169, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028169

2019  
Connor, H.K., and J.A. Carter, Exospheric neutral hydrogen density at the nominal 10 RE subsolar point deduced from XMM-Newton X-ray observations, J. Geophys. Res.: Space Phys., 124, 1612–1624; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA187

Jorgensen, A.M., T. Sun, C. Wang, L. Dai, S. Sembay, F. Wei, Y. Guo, R. Xu., Boundary Detection in Three Dimensions With Application to the SMILE Mission: the Effect of Photon Noise. J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 124, 4365– 4383, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025919

Jorgensen, A.M.,  Sun, T.,  Wang, C.,  Dai, L.,  Sembay, S.,  Zheng, J.,  Yu, X. (2019).  Boundary Detection in Three Dimensions With Application to the SMILE Mission: the Effect of Model‐fitting Noise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  124, 4341– 4355; .  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026124

Samsonov, A., Bogdanova, Y. V., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Safrankova, J., Nemecek, Z., & Park, J.-S. (2019). Long-term variations in solar wind parameters, magnetopause location, and geomagnetic activity over the last five solar cycles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 4049– 4063. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026355

Sun, T.R., C. Wang, S. Sembay, R.E. Lopez, P. Escoubet, G. Branduardi‐Raymont, J.H. Zheng, X.Z. Yu, X.C. Guo, L. Dai, Z.Q. Liu, F. Wei, Y.H. Guo (2019), Soft X‐ray imaging of the magnetosheath and cusps under different solar wind conditions: MHD simulations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 124, 2435–2450; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026093

2018  
Branduardi-Raymont, G., C. Wang, C.P. Escoubet, M. Adamovic, D. Agnolon, M. Berthomier, J.A. Carter, W. Chen, L. Colangeli, M. Collier, H.K. Connor, L. Dai, A. Dimmock, O. Djazovski, E. Donovan, J.P. Eastwood, G. Enno, F. Giannini, L. Huang, D. Kataria, K. Kuntz, H. Laakso, J. Li, L. Li, T. Lui, J. Loicq, A. Masson, J. Manuel, A. Parmar, T. Piekutowski, A.M. Read, A. Samsonov, S. Sembay, W. Raab, C. Ruciman, J.K. Shi, D.G. Sibeck, E.L. Spanswick, T. Sun, K. Symonds, J. Tong, B. Walsh, F. Wei, D. Zhao, J. Zheng, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, SMILE definition study report, European Space Agency, ESA/SCI, 1, 2018; https://doi.org/10.5270/esa.smile.definition_study_report-2018-12
 

Collier, M.R., & Connor, H.K. (2018), Magnetopause Surface Reconstruction from Tangent Vector Observations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 123, 9022–9034; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025763

Peng, S., Y. Ye, F. Wei, Z. Yang, Y. Guo, T. Sun., Numerical Model Built for the Simulation of the Earth Magnetopause by Lobster-eye-type Soft X-ray Imager Onboard SMILE Satellite, Optics Express, 26, 15138, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015138

Samsonov, A.A.,  Sibeck, D.G.,  Dmitrieva, N.P.,  Semenov, V.S.,  Slivka, K.Y.,  Šafránkova, J., &  Němeček, Z. (2018).  Magnetosheath propagation time of solar wind directional discontinuities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  123,  3727– 3741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025174

Sibeck, D.G., Allen, R., Aryan, H., Bodewits, D., Brandt, P., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Brown, G., Carter, J.A., Collado-Vega, Y.M., Collier, M.R., Connor, H. K., Cravens, T.E., Ezoe, Y., Fok, M.-C., Galeazzi, M., Gutynska, O., Holmström, M., Hsieh, S.-Y., Ishikawa, K., Koutroumpa, D., Kuntz, K.D., Leutenegger, M., Miyoshi, Y., Porter, F. S., Purucker, M. E., Read, A.M., Raeder, J., Robertson, I.P., Samsonov, A.A., Sembay, S., Snowden, S. L., Thomas, N.E., von Steiger, R., Walsh, B.M., Wing, S., Imaging Plasma Density Structures in the Soft X-Rays Generated by Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Neutrals, Space Sci. Rev., 214: 79, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0504-7

Soman, M.R., D.J. Hall, A.D. Holland, R. Burgon, T. Buggey, J. Skottfelt, S. Sembay, P. Drumm, J. Thornhill, A. Read, D. Walton, G. Branduardi-Raymont, W. Raab, P. Verhoeve, D. Agnolon, C. Woffinden, The SMILE Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) CCD Design and Development, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, 3 - 8 September 2017, Journal of Instrumentation, C01022, 2018

Wang, C., G. Branduardi-Raymont, Progress of Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) Mission, Chin. J. Space Sci., 38, 657-661, 2018; https://doi.org/10.11728/cjss2018.05.657
 

2017
Branduardi-Raymont, G. and C. Wang, A Novel and Global Way to Explore Solar-Terrestrial Relationships: SMILE, Space Research Today, COSPAR Information Bulletin, 200, 32-39, 2017

2016
Branduardi-Raymont, G., C.P. Escoubet, K. Kuntz, T. Lui, A. Read, D. Sibeck, T. Sun, B. Walsh, C. Wang, Link between Solar Wind, Magnetosphere and Ionosphere, 9. ISSI-BJ Magazine, Ed.s A. Yang and M. Falanga, October 2016

Raab, W., G. Branduardi-Raymont, C. Wang, L. Dai, E. Donovan, G. Enno, P. C. Escoubet, D. Kataria, L. Li, D. Lumb, A. M. Read, D. Rebuffat, J. Romstedt, S. Sembay, E. Spanswick, A. Wielders, A. Zhang, J.Zheng, SMILE: A Joint ESA/CAS Mission to Investigate the Interaction Between the Solar Wind and Earth’s Magnetosphere, Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 990502 (11 July 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2231984; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231984

Branduardi-Raymont, G., C. Wang, SMILE Team, SMILE (Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer): X-ray Imaging of the Sun-Earth Connection, Proceedings of the conference XMM-Newton: The Next Decade, ESAC, Madrid, Spain, 9-11 May 2016.

2015

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, doi:10.1002/2014JA020497.

2012
Branduardi-Raymont, G., S.F. Sembay, J.P. Eastwood et al. (2012), AXIOM: Advanced X-ray imaging of the magnetosphere, Exp. Astron., 33, 403-443.