@article{vanDrielGesztelyiBakerToeroeketal.2014,
  author    = {van Driel-Gesztelyi, L. and Baker, Daniel N. and Toeroek, T. and Pariat, E. and Green, L. M. and Williams, D. R. and Carlyle, J. and Valori, G. and Demoulin, P. and Kliem, Bernhard and Long, D. M. and Matthews, S. A. and Malherbe, J. -M.},
  title     = {Coronal magnetic reconnection driven by CME expansion-the 2011 June 7 event},
  series = {The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics},
  volume    = {788},
  journal   = {The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {IOP Publ. Ltd.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {0004-637X},
  doi       = {10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/85},
  pages     = {12},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupt and expand in a magnetically structured solar corona. Various indirect observational pieces of evidence have shown that the magnetic field of CMEs reconnects with surrounding magnetic fields, forming, e.g., dimming regions distant from the CME source regions. Analyzing Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations of the eruption from AR 11226 on 2011 June 7, we present the first direct evidence of coronal magnetic reconnection between the fields of two adjacent active regions during a CME. The observations are presented jointly with a data-constrained numerical simulation, demonstrating the formation/intensification of current sheets along a hyperbolic flux tube at the interface between the CME and the neighboring AR 11227. Reconnection resulted in the formation of new magnetic connections between the erupting magnetic structure from AR 11226 and the neighboring active region AR 11227 about 200 Mm from the eruption site. The onset of reconnection first becomes apparent in the SDO/AIA images when filament plasma, originally contained within the erupting flux rope, is redirected toward remote areas in AR 11227, tracing the change of large-scale magnetic connectivity. The location of the coronal reconnection region becomes bright and directly observable at SDO/AIA wavelengths, owing to the presence of down-flowing cool, dense (1010 cm(-3)) filament plasma in its vicinity. The high-density plasma around the reconnection region is heated to coronal temperatures, presumably by slow-mode shocks and Coulomb collisions. These results provide the first direct observational evidence that CMEs reconnect with surrounding magnetic structures, leading to a large-scale reconfiguration of the coronal magnetic field.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ValoriGreenDemoulinetal.2012,
  author    = {Valori, Gherardo and Green, Lucie M. and Demoulin, P. and Vargas Dominguez, S. and van Driel-Gesztelyi, L. and Wallace, A. and Baker, Daniel N. and Fuhrmann, Marcel},
  title     = {Nonlinear force-free extrapolation of emerging flux with a global twist and serpentine fine structures},
  series = {Solar physics : a journal for solar and solar-stellar research and the study of solar terrestrial physics},
  volume    = {278},
  journal   = {Solar physics : a journal for solar and solar-stellar research and the study of solar terrestrial physics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0038-0938},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11207-011-9865-8},
  pages     = {73 -- 97},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {We study the flux emergence process in NOAA active region 11024, between 29 June and 7 July 2009, by means of multi-wavelength observations and nonlinear force-free extrapolation. The main aim is to extend previous investigations by combining, as much as possible, high spatial resolution observations to test our present understanding of small-scale (undulatory) flux emergence, whilst putting these small-scale events in the context of the global evolution of the active region. The combination of these techniques allows us to follow the whole process, from the first appearance of the bipolar axial field on the east limb, until the buoyancy instability could set in and raise the main body of the twisted flux tube through the photosphere, forming magnetic tongues and signatures of serpentine field, until the simplification of the magnetic structure into a main bipole by the time the active region reaches the west limb. At the crucial time of the main emergence phase high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric measurements of the photospheric field are employed to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the nonlinear force-free coronal field, which is then used to test the current understanding of flux emergence processes. In particular, knowledge of the coronal connectivity confirms the identity of the magnetic tongues as seen in their photospheric signatures, and it exemplifies how the twisted flux, which is emerging on small scales in the form of a sea-serpent, is subsequently rearranged by reconnection into the large-scale field of the active region. In this way, the multi-wavelength observations combined with a nonlinear force-free extrapolation provide a coherent picture of the emergence process of small-scale magnetic bipoles, which subsequently reconnect to form a large-scale structure in the corona.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BoydSpenceHuangetal.2016,
  author    = {Boyd, A. J. and Spence, Harlan E. and Huang, Chia-Lin and Reeves, Geoffrey D. and Baker, Daniel N. and Turner, D. L. and Claudepierre, Seth G. and Fennell, Joseph F. and Blake, J. Bernard and Shprits, Yuri Y.},
  title     = {Statistical properties of the radiation belt seed population},
  series = {Journal of geophysical research : Space physics},
  volume    = {121},
  journal   = {Journal of geophysical research : Space physics},
  publisher = {American Geophysical Union},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {2169-9380},
  doi       = {10.1002/2016JA022652},
  pages     = {7636 -- 7646},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {We present a statistical analysis of phase space density data from the first 26 months of the Van Allen Probes mission. In particular, we investigate the relationship between the tens and hundreds of keV seed electrons and >1 MeV core radiation belt electron population. Using a cross-correlation analysis, we find that the seed and core populations are well correlated with a coefficient of approximate to 0.73 with a time lag of 10-15 h. We present evidence of a seed population threshold that is necessary for subsequent acceleration. The depth of penetration of the seed population determines the inner boundary of the acceleration process. However, we show that an enhanced seed population alone is not enough to produce acceleration in the higher energies, implying that the seed population of hundreds of keV electrons is only one of several conditions required for MeV electron radiation belt acceleration.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ShpritsDrozdovSpasojevicetal.2016,
  author    = {Shprits, Yuri Y. and Drozdov, Alexander Y. and Spasojevic, Maria and Kellerman, Adam C. and Usanova, Maria E. and Engebretson, Mark J. and Agapitov, Oleksiy V. and Zhelavskaya, Irina S. and Raita, Tero J. and Spence, Harlan E. and Baker, Daniel N. and Zhu, Hui and Aseev, Nikita A.},
  title     = {Wave-induced loss of ultra-relativistic electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts},
  series = {Nature Communications},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Nature Communications},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2041-1723},
  doi       = {10.1038/ncomms12883},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}