S. M. Petrinec

Is Magnetic Reconnection Dominantly Spatially or Temporally Variable: First Results From TRACERS

Abstract The Tandem Reconnection And Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) small explorer mission was designed to: Determine whether magnetopause reconnection is primarily spatially or temporally variable for a range of solar wind conditions . Observations from...

The May 2024 Storm: The Cusps and Dayside Magnetopause in Simulated Soft X‐Rays

Abstract The coronal mass ejection (CME) arriving at Earth on 10 May 2024 caused the most intense geomagnetic storm in the last two decades, resulting in highly unusual cusp and magnetopause dynamics. We simulate soft X‐Ray emission due to solar wind charge exchange with exospher...