The Lunar Environment Heliophysics X-ray Imager (LEXI) Mission

BM Walsh, KD Kuntz, S Busk, T Cameron… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is a wide field-of-view soft
X-ray telescope developed to study solar wind-magnetosphere coupling. LEXI is part of the …

Deriving the magnetopause position from the soft X‐ray image by using the tangent fitting approach

T Sun, C Wang, HK Connor… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Imaging is one of the essential techniques to observe astronomical structures. While
analyzing the observed images, it is a challenge in many scientific fields to reconstruct the 3 …

Finding Magnetopause Standoff Distance Using a Soft X‐ray Imager: 2. Methods to Analyze 2‐DX‐ray Images

A Samsonov, S Sembay, A Read… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's magnetosheath and cusps are the sources of soft X‐rays. In the accompanying
paper (Part 1) and this paper, we discuss the methods of finding the magnetopause position …

Finding magnetopause standoff distance using a soft X‐ray imager: 1. Magnetospheric masking

A Samsonov, JA Carter, A Read… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetopause standoff distance characterizes global magnetospheric compression
and deformation in response to changes in the solar wind dynamic pressure and …

Observations of Magnetospheric Solar Wind Charge Exchange

R Ringuette, KD Kuntz, D Koutroumpa… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) emission is vital to both the X-ray
astrophysics and heliophysics communities. SWCX emission contaminates all astrophysical …

Deformations at Earth's dayside magnetopause during quasi-radial IMF conditions: Global kinetic simulations and Soft X-ray Imaging

Z Yang, R Jarvinen, XC Guo, TR Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is an ESA-CAS joint
mission. Primary goals are investigating the dynamic response of the Earth's …

A 3D Magnetospheric CT Reconstruction Method Based on 3D GAN and Supplementary Limited‐Angle 2D Soft X‐Ray Images

RC Wang, D Li, T Sun, X Peng, Z Yang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft X‐ray imaging is a new method used to observe the structure of the Earth's
magnetosphere. Reconstruction of the Earth's three‐dimensional (3‐D) magnetospheric …

The in-situ exploration of Jupiter's radiation belts

E Roussos, O Allanson, N André, B Bertucci… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Jupiter has the most complex and energetic radiation belts in our Solar System and one of
the most challenging space environments to measure and characterize in-depth. Their …

A Theoretical Study of the Tomographic Reconstruction of Magnetosheath X‐Ray Emissions

AM Jorgensen, R Xu, T Sun, Y Huang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present an initial assessment of using tomography on single‐spacecraft images to
reconstruct 3D X‐ray emissions from the Earth's magnetosheath. 3D structures in the Earth's …

Soft X‐ray imaging of Earth's dayside magnetosheath and cusps using hybrid simulations

J Ng, BM Walsh, LJ Chen… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between solar wind ions and neutral hydrogen atoms in Earth's exosphere can
lead to the emission of soft X‐rays. Upcoming missions such as SMILE and LEXI aim to use …