SMILE

Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer

Publications

2025
Highlight: Space Science Reviews SMILE pre-launch special issue

Gong Y, Sun T, Tang B, Guo Y, Sembay S and Wang C (2025) Dynamic X-ray imaging of the magnetosheath expected during a super storm. Front. Astron. Space Sci., 12:1563653. doi:10.3389/fspas.2025.1563653

Jung, J., H.K. Connor, J.A. Carter, D. Koutroumpa, C. Pagani, Exospheric neutral density at the 10 RE Subsolar Point During Solar Maximum: Estimates from XMM soft X-ray observations, Front. Astron. Space Sci., 12, 2025; accepted

Ma, F., Dai, L., Tong, J. et al. SMILE Ground Support System and Science Application System. Space Sci. Rev., 221, 15 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01141-1

Wang, C., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Escoubet, C.P. et al. Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE): Science and Mission Overview. Space Sci. Rev. 221, 9 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-024-01126-6

Wharton, S. J., Carter, J. A., Sembay, S., Soobiah, Y., Nitti, S., & Sun, T. R. (2025). Modeling the magnetospheric 3D X-Ray emission from SWCX using a Cusp-magnetosheath emissivity model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2024JA033307. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033307

Zhang, X.-X., Wang, YM., He, F. et al. Ultraviolet Imager (UVI) for the SMILE Mission. Space Sci. Rev., 221, 31 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01160-y

2024
Highlight: Earth and Planetary Physics special issue on the SMILE mission

Archer, M.O., Shi X., Walach M.-T., Hartinger M.D., Gillies D.M., Di Matteo S., Staples F. and Nykyri K. (2024), Crucial future observations and directions for unveiling magnetopause dynamics and their geospace impacts. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 11:1430099. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1430099 

Carter, J.A., M. Dunlop, C. Forsyth, K. Oksavik, E. Donovon, A. Kavanagh, S.E. Milan, T. Sergienko, R.C. Fear, D.G. Sibeck, M. Connors, T. Yeoman, X. Tan, M.G.G.T. Taylor, K. McWilliams, J. Gjerloev, R. Barnes, D.D. Billet, G. Chisham, A. Dimmock, M.P. Freeman, D.-S. Han, M.D. Hartinger, S.-Y.W. Hsieh, Z.-J. Hu, M.K. James, L. Juusola, K. Kauristie, E.A. Kronberg, M. Lester, J. Manuel, J. Matzka, I. McCrea, Y. Miyoshi, J. Rae, L. Ren, F. Sigernes, E. Spanswick, K. Sterne, A. Steuwer, T. Sun, M.-T. Walach, B. Walsh, C. Wang, J. Weygand, J. Wild, J. Yan, J. Zhang, Q.-H. Zhang, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 275-298, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023055

Connor, H.K., J. Jung, L. Qian, E.K. Sutton, G. Cucho-Padin, M. Crow, S.-Y. Lee, Storm-time variability of terrestrial hydrogen exosphere: kinetic simulation result, Front. Astron. Space Sci., Sec. Space Physics, 11, 2024; https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1421196

Cucho-Padin, G., H. Connor, J. Jung, B. Walsh, D.G. Sibeck, Finding the magnetopause location using soft X-ray observations and a statistical inverse method, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 184-203, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023070

Cucho-Padin, G.,  H. Connor, J. Jung, M. Shoemaker, K. Murphy, D. Sibeck, J. Norberg, E.  Rojas, A feasibility study of 4-D tomography of soft X-ray magnetosheath emissivities using multi-spacecraft measurements, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 11, 2024; https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1379321

Dai, L., Zhu, M., Ren, Y., Gonzalez, W., Wang, C., Sibeck, D., ... & Branduardi-Raymont, G. (2024). Global-scale magnetosphere convection driven by dayside magnetic reconnection. Nature Communications, 15(1), 639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44992-y

Echim, M., Costel Munteanu, Gabriel Voitcu, Eliza Teodorescu, Magnetopause properties at the dusk magnetospheric flank from global magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the kinetic Vlasov equilibrium, and in situ observations − Potential implications for SMILE, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 222-233, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023066

Grandin, M., H.K. Connor, S. Hoilijoki, M. Battarbee, Y. Pfau-Kempf, U. Ganse, K. Papadakis, M. Palmroth,  Hybrid-Vlasov simulation of soft X-ray emissions at the Earth’s dayside magnetospheric boundaries, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 70-88, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023052

Guo, J., TianRan Sun, San Lu, QuanMing Lu, Yu Lin, XueYi Wang, Chi Wang, RongSheng Wang, Kai Huang, Global hybrid simulations of soft X-ray emissions in the Earth’s magnetosheath, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 47-58, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023053

Han, Y., Dai, L., Ren, Y., Wang, C., Gonzalez, W., & Zhu, M. (2024). Correlations of plasma properties between the upstream magnetosheath and the downstream outflow region of magnetopause reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032817. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032817

Hubbard, M.W.J., O. Hetherington, D. J. Hall, T.W. Buggey, S. Parsons, T. Arnold, A. Holland, C. Pagani, S. Sembay, The CCD instrument background of the SMILE SXI, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 15-24, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023054

Hsieh, S.-Y.W. and David G. Sibeck, Origins of perturbations in dayside equatorial ground magnetograms, , Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 215-221, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023087

Hyangpyo, K., Hyunju K. Connor, Jaewoong Jung, Brian M. Walsh, David Sibeck, Kip D. Kuntz, Frederick S. Porter, Catriana K. Paw U, Rousseau A. Nutter, Ramiz Qudsi, Rumi Nakamura, Michael Collier, Estimating the subsolar magnetopause position from soft X-ray images using a low-pass image filter, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 173-183, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023069

Jorgensen, A.M., TianRan Sun, Y. Huang, L. Li, R. Xu, L. Dai, Chi Wang, Tomographic reconstruction of the Earth’s magnetosheath from multiple spacecraft: a theoretical study, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 204-214, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023088

Jung, J., Hyunju Connor, Andrew Dimmock, Steve Sembay, Andrew Read, Jan Soucek, Mshpy23: a user-friendly, parameterized model of magnetosheath conditions, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 89-104, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023065

Kim, H., Connor, H.K., Zou, Y. et al. Relation between magnetopause position and reconnection rate under quasi-steady solar wind dynamic pressure, Earth Planets Space, 76, 165 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02101-9

Koutroumpa, D., Solar wind ion charge state distributions and compound cross sections for solar wind charge exchange X-ray emission, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8, 105-118, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023056

Küntz, K.D., D. Koutroumpa, W. R. Dunn, A. Foster, F. S. Porter, D. G. Sibeck, B. Walsh, The magnetosheath at high spectral resolution, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 234-246, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023060

Liang, J., D.M. Gillies, E. Spanswick, E.F. Donovan, Converting TREx-RGB green-channel data to 557.7 nm auroral intensity: Methodology and initial results, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 258-274, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023063

Li, J., Li, HW., Zhang, XF. et al. Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer Spacecraft, Space Sci. Rev., 220, 92 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-024-01125-7

Mischel, S., Kronberg, E. A., & Escoubet, C. P. (2024). Evaluating proton intensities for the SMILE mission, Space Weather, 22, e2024SW003934. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024SW003934

Nitti, S., Carter, J. A., Sembay, S. F., Milan, S. E., Zhao, L., Lepri, S. T., & Kuntz, K. D. (2024). Can XMM-Newton be used to track compositional changes in the solar wind?, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA033323. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033323

Ohma, M. Madelaire, K.M. Laundal, J.P. Reistad, S.M. Hatch, S. Gasparini, S.J. Walker, Background removal from global auroral images: Data-driven dayglow modeling, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 247-257, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023051

Parsons, S., D.J. Hall, O. Hetherington, T. W. Buggey, T. Arnold, M.W.J. Hubbard, A. Holland, SMILE soft X-ray Imager flight model CCD370 pre-flight device characterisation, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 25-38, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023057

Read, A., On the apparent line-of-sight alignment of the peak X-ray intensity of the magnetosheath and the tangent to the magnetopause as viewed by SMILE-SXI, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 155-172, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023062

Samsonov, A., Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Steven Sembay, Andrew Read, David Sibeck, Lutz Rastaetter, Simulation of the SMILE Soft X-ray Imager response to a southward interplanetary magnetic field turning, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 39-46, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023058

Sembay, S., A.L. Alme, D. Agnolon, T. Arnold, A. Beardmore, A. Belén Balado Margeli, C. Bicknell, C. Bouldin, G. Branduardi-Raymont, T. Crawford, J. P. Breuer, T. Buggey, G. Butcher, R. Canchal, J. A. Carter, A. Cheney, Y. Collado-Vega, H. Connor, T. Crawford, N. Eaton, C. Feldman, C. Forsyth, T. Frantzen, G. Galgóczi, J. Garcia, G. Y. Genov, C. Gordillo, H-P. Gröbelbauer, M. Guedel, Y. Guo, M. Hailey, D. Hall, R. Hampson, J. Hasiba, O. Hetherington, A. Holland, S-Y. Hsieh, M. W. J. Hubbard, H. Jeszenszky, M. Jones, T. Kennedy, K. Koch-Mehrin, S. Kögl, S. Krucker, K. D. Kuntz, C. Lakin1, G. Laky, O. Lylund, A. Martindale, J. Miguel Mas Hesse, R. Nakamura, K. Oksavik, N. Østgaard, H. Ottacher, R. Ottensamer, C. Pagani, S. Parsons, P. Patel, J. Pearson, G. Peikert, F. S. Porter, T. Pouliantis, B. H. Qureshi, W. Raab, G. Randall, A. M. Read, N. M. M. Roque, M. E. Rostad, C. Runciman, S. Sachdev, A. Samsonov, M. Soman, D. Sibeck, S. Smit, J. Søndergaard, R. Speight, S. Stavland, M. Steller, TianRan Sun, J. Thornhill, W. Thomas, K. Ullaland, B. Walsh, D. Walton, C. Wang, S. Yang, The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission, 2024, 8(1): 5-14. https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023067

Sun, Tianran, Hyunju Connor, Andrey Samsonov, Preface to the Special Issue on Modeling and Data Analysis Methods for the SMILE mission, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 1-4, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023089)

Walsh, B.M., Kuntz, K.D., Busk, S. et al. The Lunar Environment Heliophysics X-ray Imager (LEXI) Mission. Space Sci. Rev., 220, 37 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-024-01063-4

Wang, R.C., JiaQi Wang, DaLin Li, TianRan Sun, XiaoDong Peng, YiHong Guo, Using restored two-dimensional X-ray images to reconstruct the three-dimensional magnetopause, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 133-154, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023064

Wang, R. C., Jorgensen, A. M., Li, D., Sun, T., Yang, Z., Peng, X. (2024), An adaptive X-ray dynamic image estimation method based on OMNI solar wind parameters and SXI simulated observations, Space Weather, 22, e2024SW004040; https://doi.org/10.1029/2024SW004040

Yang, Z.W., iKu Jarvinen, XiaoCheng Guo, TianRan Sun, Dimitra Koutroumpa, George K. Parks, Can Huang, BinBin Tang, QuanMing Lu, Chi Wang, Deformations at Earth’s dayside magnetopause during quasi-radial IMF conditions: Global kinetic simulations and Soft X-ray Imaging, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 59-69, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023059

Xu, Q., Koutroumpa, D., Modolo, R., Sun, T., Connor, H., Sembay, S., Tkachenko, Y. (2024). Modeling soft X-ray emissions at the dayside magnetopause. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032687. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032687

Zhang, J.J., TianRan Sun, XiZheng Yu, DaLin Li, Hang Li, JiaQi Guo, ZongHua Ding, Tao Chen, Jian Wu, Chi Wang, Analysis of the joint detection capability of the SMILE satellite and EISCAT-3D radar, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 299-306, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023061

Zhang, Y.J., TianRan Sun, Jennifer. A. Carter, WenHao Liu, Steve Sembay, ShuiNai Zhang, Li Ji, Chi Wang, Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1), 119-132, 2024; https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023068

Zhu, M., Dai, L., Wang, C., Gonzalez, W., Samsonov, A., Guo, X., et al. (2024). The influence of ionospheric conductance on magnetospheric convection during the southward IMF. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032607. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032607

2023
Dai, L., Y. Han, C. Wang, S. Yao, W. Gonzalez, S. Duan, 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

Ng, J., Walsh, B.M., Chen, L.-J., Omelchenko, U., Soft X-ray imaging of Earth's dayside magnetosheath and cusps using hybrid simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103347. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103347

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

Ringuette, R., K.D. Kuntz, D. Koutroumpa, P. Kaaret, D. LaRocca, and J. Richardson, Observations of Magnetospheric Solar Wind Charge Exchange, ApJ., 955, 139, 2023; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf3e2

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

Zhang, Y., T. Sun, J.A. Carter, S. Sembay, D.  Koutroumpa, L. Ji, W. Liu, C. Wang, Dynamical Response of Solar Wind Charge Exchange Soft X-Ray Emission in Earth's Magnetosphere to the Solar Wind Proton Flux, ApJ., 948, 69, 2023; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc326

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.