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Romina Nikoukar
Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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GNEISS: an auroral ionospheric sounding rocket campaign for a heterogeneous system science case study of auroral current closure
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 12 december 2024
Kristina A. Lynch, John W. Bonnell, Meghan Burleig...
The Geophysical Non-Equilibrium Ionospheric System Science (GNEISS) auroral sounding rocket campaign is in design for a January/February 2026 nightsid...
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A “Valley” in Heliospheric Energetic Particle Intensities and Implications for a New Horizons Encounter with the Solar Wind Termination Shock
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Romina Nikoukar, Matthew E. Hill, Robert B. Decker...
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft is currently at 59 au from the Sun and expected to observe the solar wind termination shock (TS) as...
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Preparing for the Termination Shock Encounter with New Horizons
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Pontus C. Brandt, Matthew E. Hill, Heather A. Elli...
Across the Termination Shock (TS) the solar wind was expected to transition from supersonic to subsonic and heat by two orders of magnitude. Voyager 2...
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Evolving Role of the Nomination Task Force in Recognition of Underrepresented Scientists in Space Sciences
AGU 2024
education | 09 december 2024
Dogacan S. Ozturk, Muhammad Fraz Bashir, Michael H...
The Nomination Task Force (NTF) is a volunteer group within the Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section, dedicated to identifying deserving yet overl...
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Source of the Observed Enhancements in Thermospheric ΣO/N2 During Two Solar Eclipses in 2023
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
26 july 2024
Clayton Cantrall, Sebastijan Mrak, Romina Nikoukar...

Two solar eclipse events in 2023 appeared to produce considerable enhancements in the thermospheric column density ratio of monatomic oxygen to mol...

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Flows Anisotropies in the Heliosheath
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2023
Merav Opher, Marc Z. Kornbleuth, Robert B. Decker,...
One of the long-standing puzzles in understanding the last layer of the heliosphere, the heliosheath, is the nature of the plasma flows in that region...
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Revisiting the energetic particle behavior in the magnetically sectored heliosheath based on the Voyager observations
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2023
Romina Nikoukar, Matthew E. Hill, Jeewoo Park, Rob...
Both Voyager spacecraft (V1 and V2) have crossed the heliopause and are now cruising through the very local interstellar medium. While in the helioshe...
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Characterization of oxygen photodissociation rate due to solar energy absorption in the Schumann-Runge continuum based on twenty years of TIMED/SEE observations
LONG-TERM CHANGE IN GEOSPACE: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN CLIMATE SCIENCE POSTER
spa-aeronomy | 13 december 2023
Romina Nikoukar, Jeng-Hwa Yee, Robert Demajistre, ...
The quantification of absorption of far ultraviolet (FUV) solar radiation in the Schumann-Runge continuum (126-175 nm) by molecular oxygen is of criti...
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