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
Yao, Z. H., et al. (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), e2021JA029894
Yao, Z., W. R. Dunn et al. (2021), Revealing the source of Jupiter’s x-ray auroral flares, Science Advances, 7(28), eabf0851,
Bonfond, B., Z. Yao 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. Yao, 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., Z. Yao, Y. Wei, L. C. Ray, I. Rae, C. S. Arridge, A. Coates, P. Delamere, N. Sergis, and P. Kollmann (2018), Rotationally driven magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s dayside, Nature Astronomy, 2, 640-645, doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0461-9.