Publications and communications of Zhonghua Yao

Head, L. A., Bonfond, B., Moirano, A., Benmahi, B., Sicorello, G., Gérard, J.-C., Vogt, M. F., Hue, V., Greathouse, T., Gladstone, G. R., & Yao, Z. (2024). Effect of magnetospheric conditions on the morphology of Jupiter's ultraviolet main auroral emission as observed by Juno-UVS. Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450253

Xu, Y., Ray, L., Yao, Z., Zhang, B., Bonfond, B., Badman, S., Grodent, D., Feng, E., Qin, T., & Wei, Y. (June 2024). Revealing the Local Time Structure of the Alfvén Radius in Jupiter's Magnetosphere Through High‐Resolution Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 129 (6). doi:10.1029/2024je008368

Haewsantati, K., Bonfond, B., Wannawichian, S., Gladstone, G. R., Hue, V., Greathouse, T. K., Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Gérard, J.-C., Guo, R., Elliott, S., Mauk, B. H., Clark, G., Gershman, D., Kotsiaros, S., Kurth, W. S., Connerney, J., Szalay, J. R., & Phriksee, A. (2023). Juno’s multi‐instruments observations during the flybys of auroral bright spots in Jupiter’s polar aurorae. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics. doi:10.1029/2023ja031396

Xu, Y., Yao, Z., Zhang, B., Delamere, P. A., Ray, L. C., Dunn, W. R., Badman, S. V., Feng, E. H., Zheng, Z. Q., Bolton, S. J., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., & Wei, Y. (10 July 2023). On the Relation Between Jupiter's Aurora and the Dawnside Current Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (13). doi:10.1029/2023gl104123

Yao, Z.* , Bonfond, B.* , Grodent, D., Chané, E., Dunn, W. R., Kurth, W. S., Connerney, J. E. P., Nichols, J. D., Palmaerts, B., Guo, R., Hospodarsky, G. B., Mauk, B. H., Kimura, T., & Bolton, S. J. (29 September 2022). On the Relation Between Auroral Morphologies and Compression Conditions of Jupiter's Magnetopause: Observations From Juno and the Hubble Space Telescope. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 127 (10). doi:10.1029/2021ja029894

Dunn, W. R., Weigt, D. M., Grodent, D., Yao, Z., May, D., Feigelman, K., Sipos, B., Fleming, D., McEntee, S., Bonfond, B., Gladstone, G. R., Johnson, R. E., Jackman, C. M., Guo, R., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Wibisono, A. D., Kraft, R. P., Nichols, J. D., & Ray, L. C. (16 June 2022). Jupiter's X-Ray and UV Dark Polar Region. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (11), 2021GL097390. doi:10.1029/2021GL097390

Bonfond, B., Grodent, D., Palmaerts, B., Gladstone, R., Badman, S., Clarke, J., Gérard, J.-C., Giles, R., Greathouse, T., Haewsantati, K., Hue, V., Kammer, J., Nichols, J., Sicorello, G., Wannawichian, S., & Yao, Z. (27 March 2022). The two faces of the Jovian UV aurorae [Paper presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5947

Bonfond, B., Guo, R., Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Gérard, J.-C., Gladstone, R., Kammer, J., Ebert, R., Allegrini, F., Gershman, D., Kotsiaros, S., Connerney, J., Louarn, P., Kurth, W., Mauk, B., & Louis. (13 July 2021). Braving the Dawn Storm: February 7th 2018 in situ and remote observations from Juno [Poster presentation]. Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets meeting 2021, Liège, Belgium.

Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., Gladstone, G. R., Grodent, D., Gérard, J.-C., Matar, J., Palmaerts, B., Greathouse, T. K., Hue, V., Versteeg, M. H., Kammer, J. A., Giles, R. S., Tao, C., Vogt, M. F., Mura, A., Adriani, A., Mauk, B. H., Kurth, W. S., & Bolton, S. J. (2021). Are Dawn Storms Jupiter's Auroral Substorms? AGU Advances, 2 (1), 2020AV000275. doi:10.1029/2020AV000275

Guo, R., Yao, Z., Dunn, W. R., Palmaerts, B., Sergis, N., Grodent, D., Badman, S. V., Ye, S. Y., Pu, Z. Y., Mitchell, D. G., Zhang, B. Z., Achilleos, N., Coates, A. J., Wei, Y., Waite, J. H., Krupp, N., & Dougherty, M. K. (2021). A Rotating Azimuthally Distributed Auroral Current System on Saturn Revealed by the Cassini Spacecraft. Astrophysical Journal. Letters, 919 (2). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac26b5

Guo, R., Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Clark, G., Dunn, W. R., Palmaerts, B., Mauk, B. H., Vogt, M. F., Shi, Q. Q., Wei, Y., Connerney, J. E. P., & Bolton, S. J. (2021). Jupiter's Double-Arc Aurora as a Signature of Magnetic Reconnection: Simultaneous Observations From HST and Juno. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (14), 93964. doi:10.1029/2021GL093964

Haewsantati, K., Bonfond, B., Wannawichian, S., Gladstone, G. R., Hue, V., Versteeg, M. H., Greathouse, T. K., Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Dunn, W., Gérard, J.-C., Giles, R., Kammer, J., Guo, R., & Vogt, M. F. (2021). Morphology of Jupiter's Polar Auroral Bright Spot Emissions via Juno-UVS Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 126 (2), 2020JA028586. doi:10.1029/2020JA028586

Wibisono, A. D., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Dunn, W. R., Kimura, T., Coates, A. J., Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Kita, H., Rodriguez, P., Gladstone, G. R., Bonfond, B., & Haythornthwaite, R. P. (2021). Jupiter's X-ray aurora during UV dawn storms and injections as observed by XMM-Newton, Hubble, and Hisaki. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2218

Wibisono, A., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Dunn, W., Kimura, T., Coates, A., Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Kita, H., Rodriguez, P., Gladstone, R., Bonfond, B., & Haythornthwaite, R. (2021). Jupiter's X-ray aurora during a mass injection and Io mass loading events observed by XMM-Newton, Hubble, and Hisaki. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. 21-7657). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7657

Yao, Z., Dunn, W. R., Woodfield, E. E., Clark, G., Mauk, B. H., Ebert, R. W., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Pan, D., Rae, I. J., Ni, B., Guo, R., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Wibisono, A. D., Rodriguez, P., Kotsiaros, S., Ness, J.-U., Allegrini, F., Kurth, W. S., ... Bolton, S. J. (2021). Revealing the source of Jupiter's x-ray auroral flares. Science Advances, 7 (28), 0851. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abf0851

Zhang, B., Delamere, P. A., Yao, Z., Bonfond, B., Lin, D., Sorathia, K. A., Brambles, O. J., Lotko, W., Garretson, J. S., Merkin, V. G., Grodent, D., Dunn, W. R., & Lyon, J. G. (2021). How Jupiter’s unusual magnetospheric topology structures its aurora. Science Advances, 7 (15), 1204. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd1204

Palmaerts, B., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., Guo, R., Dumont, M., Gérard, J.-C., & Haewsantati, K. (September 2020). Jupiter's aurora liveliness during solar minimum [Paper presentation]. Europlanet Science Congress 2020.

Bonfond, B., Guo, R., Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Gérard, J.-C., Randy, G., Vincent, H., Thomas, G., Versteeg, M., Kammer, J., Allegrini, F., Ebert, R., Kurth, W., Louarn, P., Gershman, D., Connerney, J., Kotsiaros, S., & Mauk, B. (2020). Flying through a dawn storm: a multi-instrument study of the traversal of a dawn storm by Juno on February 7th 2018 [Paper presentation]. Europlanet Science Congress 2020. doi:10.5194/epsc2020-270

Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., & Grodent, D. (2020). Six Pieces of Evidence Against the Corotation Enforcement Theory to Explain the Main Aurora at Jupiter. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 125 (11), 2020JA028152. doi:10.1029/2020JA028152

Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., & Grodent, D. (2020). Six observational pieces of evidence against corotation as the main cause for the aurora at Jupiter [Paper presentation]. Europlanet Science Congress 2020. doi:10.5194/epsc2020-29

Nichols, J. D., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bunce, E. J., Cowley, S. W. H., Ebert, R. W., Grodent, D., Huscher, E., Kamran, A., Kurth, W. S., Wilson, R. J., & Yao, Z. (2020). An Enhancement of Jupiter's Main Auroral Emission and Magnetospheric Currents. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 125 (8). doi:10.1029/2020JA027904

Palmaerts, B., Yao, Z., Sergis, N., Guo, R., Grodent, D., Dialynas, K., Gérard, J.-C., & Mitchell, D. G. (2020). A long-lasting auroral spiral rotating around Saturn’s pole. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2020GL088810

Wibisono, A. D., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Dunn, W. R., Coates, A. J., Weigt, D. M., Jackman, C. M., Yao, Z., Tao, C., Allegrini, F., Grodent, D., Chatterton, J., Gerasimova, A., Kloss, L., Milović, J., Orlandiayni, L., Preidl, A.-K., Radler, C., Summhammer, L., & Fleming, D. (2020). Temporal and Spectral Studies by XMM-Newton of Jupiter's X-ray Auroras During a Compression Event. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 125 (5). doi:10.1029/2019JA027676

Yao, Z., Bonfond, B., Clark, G., Grodent, D., Dunn, W. R., Vogt, M. F., Guo, R., Mauk, B. H., Connerney, J. E. P., Levin, S. M., & Bolton, S. J. (2020). Reconnection- and Dipolarization-Driven Auroral Dawn Storms and Injections. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 125 (8). doi:10.1029/2019JA027663

Radioti, A., Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Palmaerts, B., Roussos, E., Dialynas, K., Mitchell, D., Pu, Z., Badman, S. V., Gérard, J.-C., Pryor, W. R., & Bonfond, B. (01 November 2019). Auroral Beads at Saturn and the Driving Mechanism: Cassini Proximal Orbits. Astrophysical Journal, 885. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab4e20

Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., Gladstone, R., & Grodent, D. (18 September 2019). Jovian dawn storms and terrestrial auroral substorms: similarities and differences [Paper presentation]. EPSC-DPS2019, Genève, Switzerland.

Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., Gladstone, R. G., Grodent, D., Gérard, J.-C., Radioti, A., Kammer, J., Hue, V., Greathouse, T., Versteeg, M., Kurth, W., Louarn, P., & Hospodarsky, G. (June 2019). Are Dawn Storms Jupiter's auroral Substorms? [Poster presentation]. Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets meeting, Sendai, Japan.

Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Bonfond, B., Gérard, J.-C., Radioti, A., Badman, S., Bunce, E., Nichols, J., Roth, L., Saur, J., Dunn, W., Schmidt, C., Clarke, J. T., Connerney, J. E. P., Gladstone, G. R., Kimura, T., Kurth, W. S., Mauk, B., McComas, D., ... Orton, G. S. (June 2019). Jupiter is alive!
 HST observations of Jupiter's aurora during Juno orbits 18, 19 and 20. (Invited) [Paper presentation]. Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets meeting, Sendai, Japan.

Grodent, D., Yao, Z., Bonfond, B., Gérard, J.-C., Radioti, A., Badman, S., Bunce, E. J., Nichols, J. D., Roth, L., Saur, J., Dunn, W., Schmidt, C., Clarke, J., Connerney, J. E. P., Gladstone, G. R., Kimura, T., Kurth, W. S., Mauk, B., McComas, D. J., ... Orton, G. S. (June 2019). Jupiter is alive! HST observations of Jupiter's aurora during Juno orbits 18, 19 and 20 [Paper presentation]. Magnetospheres of Outer Planets meeting, Sendai, Japan.

Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Kurth, W. S., Clark, G., Mauk, B., Kimura, T., Bonfond, B., Ye, S.-Y., Lui, A. T., Radioti, A., Palmaerts, B., Dunn, W., Ray, L., Bagenal, F., Badman, S., Rae, I. J., Guo, R., Pu, Z. Y., Gérard, J.-C., ... Levin, S. M. (June 2019). On the relation between Jovian aurorae and the loading/unloading of the magnetic flux: simultaneous measurements from Juno, HST and Hisaki (Invited) [Paper presentation]. Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets meeting, Sendai, Japan.

Gérard, J.-C., Bonfond, B., Mauk, B. H., Gladstone, G. R., Yao, Z., Greathouse, T. K., Hue, V., Grodent, D., Gkouvelis, L., Kammer, J. A., Versteeg, M., Clark, G., Radioti, A., Connerney, J. E. P., Bolton, S. J., & Levin, S. M. (2019). Contemporaneous Observations of Jovian Energetic Auroral Electrons and Ultraviolet Emissions by the Juno Spacecraft. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 124 (11), 8298-8317. doi:10.1029/2019JA026862

Snios, B., Dunn, W. R., Lisse, C. M., Brand uardi-Raymont, G., Dennerl, K., Bhardwaj, A., Gladstone, G. R., Nulsen, S., Bodewits, D., Jackman, C. M., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Bunce, E. J., Combi, M. R., Cravens, T. E., Cumbee, R. S., Drake, J. J., Elsner, R. F., Grodent, D., Hong, J. S., ... Yao, Z. (2019). X-rays Studies of the Solar System. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 51 (3), 25.

Yao, Z., Coates, A., Ray, L. C., Rae, J., Grodent, D., Jones, G., Dougherty, M., Owen, C., Guo, R., Dunn, W., Radioti, A., Pu, Z., Lewis, G. R., Waite, J. H., & Gérard, J.-C. (June 2018). Co-Rotating Magnetic Reconnection Site in Saturn's Magnetosphere [Poster presentation]. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 15th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Guo, R. L., Yao, Z., Sergis, N., Wei, Y., Mitchell, D. G., Roussos, E., Palmaerts, B., Dunn, W. R., Radioti, A., & Ray, L. C. (2018). Reconnection acceleration in Saturn's dayside magnetodisc: a multicase study with Cassini. Astrophysical Journal. Letters. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aaedab

Guo, R. L., Yao, Z., Wei, Y., Ray, L. C., Rae, I. J., Arridge, C. S., Coates, A. J., Delamere, P. A., Sergis, N., Kollmann, P., Grodent, D., Dunn, W. R., Waite, J. H., Burch, J. L., Pu, Z. Y., Palmaerts, B., & Dougherty, M. K. (2018). Rotationally driven magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s dayside. Nature Astronomy, 2 (8), 640-645. doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0461-9

Yao, Z., Radioti, A., Grodent, D., Ray, L. C., Palmaerts, B., Sergis, N., Dialynas, K., Coates, A. J., Arridge, C. S., & Roussos, E. (2018). Recurrent magnetic dipolarization at Saturn: revealed by Cassini. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 123 (10), 8502-8517. doi:10.1029/2018JA025837

Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Yao, Z., Gladstone, G. R., Gérard, J.-C., Radioti, A., Clarke, J. T., Nichols, J. D., Bunce, E. J., Roth, L., Saur, J., Kimura, T., Orton, G. S., Badman, S. V., Mauk, B., Connenery, J. E. P., McComas, D., Kurth, W. S., Adriani, A., ... Bagenal, F. (12 December 2017). Overview of HST observa7ons of Jupiter’s ultraviolet aurora during Juno orbits 3 to 7 [Paper presentation]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Rae, I. J., Murphy, K. R., Watt, C. E. J., Mann, I. R., Yao, Z., Kalmoni, N. M. E., Forsyth, C., & Milling, D. K. (October 2017). Using ultra-low frequency waves and their characteristics to diagnose key physics of substorm onset. Geoscience Letters, 4 (1), 23. doi:10.1186/s40562-017-0089-0

Grodent, D., Gladstone, G. R., Clarke, J. T., Bonfond, B., Gérard, J.-C., Radioti, A., Nichols, J. D., Bunce, E. J., Roth, L., Saur, J., Kimura, T., Orton, G. S., Badman, S. V., Mauk, B., Connerney, J. E. P., McComas, D., Kurth, W. S., Adriani, A., Hansen, C., & Yao, Z. (April 2017). HST observations of Jupiter's UV aurora during Juno's orbits PJ03, PJ04 and PJ05 [Poster presentation]. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 (EGU), Vienne, Austria.

Varsani, A., Nakamura, R., Sergeev, V. A., Baumjohann, W., Owen, C. J., Petrukovich, A. A., Yao, Z., Nakamura, T. K. M., Kubyshkina, M. V., & Sotirelis, T. (2017). Simultaneous remote observations of intense reconnection effects by DMSP and MMS spacecraft during a storm time substorm. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics. doi:10.1002/2017JA024547

Yao, Z. (2017). Observations of loading-unloading process at Saturn distant magnetotail. Earth and Planetary Physics, 1, 53-57. doi:10.26464/epp2017007

Yao, Z., Coates, A. J., Ray, L. C., Rae, I. J., Grodent, D., Jones, G. H., Dougherty, M. K., Owen, C. J., Guo, R. L., & Dunn, W. (2017). Discovery of co-rotating magnetic reconnection in Saturn's magnetosphere. Astrophysical Journal. Letters.

Yao, Z., Coates, A. J., Ray, L. C., Rae, I. J., Grodent, D., Jones, G. H., Dougherty, M. K., Owen, C. J., Guo, R. L., Dunn, W. R., Radioti, A., Pu, Z. Y., Lewis, G. R., Waite, J. H., & Gérard, J.-C. (2017). Corotating Magnetic Reconnection Site in Saturn's Magnetosphere. Astrophysical Journal. Letters, 846 (2). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa88af

Yao, Z., Grodent, D., Ray, L. C., Rae, I. J., Coates, A. J., Pu, Z. Y., Lui, A. T., Radioti, A., Waite, J. H., & Jones, G. H. (2017). Two fundamentally different drivers of dipolarizations at Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics. doi:10.1002/2017JA024060

Yao, Z., Murphy, K. R., Rae, I. J., & Balan, N. (2017). Introduction to the thematic series “Coupling of the magnetosphere–ionosphere system”. Geoscience Letters. doi:10.1186/s40562-017-0092-5

Yao, Z., Pu, Z. Y., Rae, I. J., Radioti, A., & Kubyshkina, M. V. (2017). Auroral streamer and its role in driving wave-like pre-onset aurora. Geoscience Letters, 4 (1), 8. doi:10.1186/s40562-017-0075-6

Yao, Z., Radioti, A., Rae, I. J., Liu, J., Grodent, D., Ray, L. C., Badman, S. V., Coates, A. J., Gérard, J.-C., Waite, J. H., Yates, J. N., Shi, Q. Q., Wei, Y., Bonfond, B., Dougherty, M. K., Roussos, E., Sergis, N., & Palmaerts, B. (2017). Mechanisms of Saturn's Near-Noon Transient Aurora: In Situ Evidence From Cassini Measurements. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1002/2017GL075108

Yao, Z., Rae, I. J., Guo, R. L., Fazakerley, A. N., Owen, C. J., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann, W., Watt, C. E. J., Hwang, K. J., & Giles, B. L. (2017). A direct examination of the dynamics of dipolarization fronts using MMS. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics. doi:10.1002/2016JA023401

Yao, Z., Rae, I. J., Lui, A. T. Y., Murphy, K. R., Owen, C. J., Pu, Z. Y., Forsyth, C., Grodent, D., Zong, Q. G., & Du, A. M. (2017). An explanation of auroral intensification during the substorm expansion phase. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 122 (8), 8560-8576. doi:10.1002/2017JA024029

Yao, Z. (2016). Substructures within a dipolarization front revealed by high-temporal resolution Cluster observations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 121 (6), 5185-5202. doi:10.1002/2015JA022238

Yao, Z. (2014). Current reduction in a pseudo-breakup event: THEMIS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 119 (10), 8178-8187. doi:10.1002/2014JA020186