Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
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Room 405, James Lee Sciences Building, The University of Hong Kong
Research Interest
Planetary Space Sciences and Explorations
Publications
Xu, Y., Yao, Z. H.(correspondence), Arridge, C. S., Zhang, B., Chen, J. J., Badman, S. V., ... & Wei, Y. (2026). Dawn-dusk Asymmetrical Distribution of Saturn’s Cusp. Nature Communications. 17(1), 1861.
Tian, S., Yao, Z.(correspondence), Wygant, J.R. et al. (2026). Evidence for Alfvén waves powering auroral arc via a static electric potential drop. Nature Communications. 17, 297.
Xu, Y., Arridge, C. S., Yao, Z. H. (correspondence), Zhang, B., Ray, L. C., Badman, S. V., ... & Wei, Y. (2024). In situ evidence of the magnetospheric cusp of Jupiter from Juno spacecraft measurements. Nature Communications. 15(1), 6062.
Zhang, B., Yao, Z. (correspondence), Brambles, O. J., Delamere, P. A., Lotko, W., Grodent, D., ... & Lyon, J. G. (2024). A unified framework for global auroral morphologies of different planets. Nature Astronomy, 1-9
Yao, Z. H., Dunn, W. R. et al., (2021) Revealing the source of Jupiter’s x-ray auroral flares. Science Advances, 7, eabf0851.
Bonfond, B., Z. Yao(correspondence) et al. (2021), Are Dawn Storms Jupiter's Auroral Substorms?, AGU Advances, 2(1), e2020AV000275, doi:10.1029/2020AV000275.
Zhang, B., P. A. Delamere, Z. H. Yao(correspondence), B. Bonfond, D. Lin, K. A. Sorathia, O. J. Brambles, W. Lotko, J. S. Garretson, and V. G. Merkin (2021), How Jupiter's Unusual Magnetospheric Topology Structures Its Aurora, Science Advances, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd1204.
Guo, R. L., Z. H. Yao(correspondence) et al. (2018), Rotationally driven magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s dayside, Nature Astronomy, doi: 10.1038/s41550-018-0461-9
Wei, Y., Yao, Z. (correspondence), & Wan, W. (2018). China’s roadmap for planetary exploration. Nature Astronomy, 2(5), 346-348.
