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Academic Article

Year Title
2019 Forecasting the Structure and Orientation of Earthbound Coronal Mass Ejections.  Space Weather.  17:498-526. 2019
2019 Generic Magnetic Field Intensity Profiles of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections at Mercury, Venus, and Earth From Superposed Epoch Analyses.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  124:812-836. 2019
2019 The Magnetic Morphology of Magnetic Clouds: Multi-spacecraft Investigation of Twisted and Writhed Coronal Mass Ejections.  Astrophysical Journal.  870:100-100. 2019
2018 Forecasting Periods of Strong Southward Magnetic Field Following Interplanetary Shocks.  Space Weather.  16:2004-2021. 2018
2018 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP): A New NASA Mission.  Space Science Reviews.  214:116. 2018
2018 The Magnetic Field Geometry of Small Solar Wind Flux Ropes Inferred from Their Twist Distribution.  Solar Physics.  293:165. 2018
2018 Effects in the Near-Magnetopause Magnetosheath Elicited by Large-Amplitube Alfvenic Fluctuations Terminating in a Field and Flow Discontinuity.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  123:8983-9004. 2018
2018 On the Spatial Coherence of Magnetic Ejecta: Measurements of Coronal Mass Ejections by Multiple Spacecraft Longitudinally Separated by 0.01 au.  Astrophysical Journal Letters.  864:L7-L7. 2018
2018 Fitting and Reconstruction of Thirteen Simple Coronal Mass Ejections.  Solar Physics.  293:73. 2018
2018 Opening a Window on ICME-driven GCR Modulation in the Inner Solar System.  Astrophysical Journal.  856:139-139. 2018
2018 Update on the Worsening Particle Radiation Environment Observed by CRaTER and Implications for Future Human Deep-Space Exploration.  Space Weather.  16:289-303. 2018
2017 The Physical Processes of CME/ICME Evolution.  Space Science Reviews.  212:1159-1219. 2017
2017 Importance of CME Radial Expansion on the Ability of Slow CMEs to Drive Shocks.  Astrophysical Journal.  848:75-75. 2017
2017 MMS Observations of Reconnection at Dayside Magnetopause Crossings During Transitions of the Solar Wind to Sub-Alfvenic Flow.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  122:9934-9951. 2017
2017 Statistical study of ICME effects on Mercury's magnetospheric boundaries and northern cusp region from MESSENGER.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  122:4960-4975. 2017
2017 The Interaction of Successive Coronal Mass Ejections: A Review.  Solar Physics.  292:64. 2017
2017 Inferring the Heliospheric Magnetic Field Back through Maunder Minimum.  Astrophysical Journal.  837:165-165. 2017
2016 Factors Affecting the Geo-effectiveness of Shocks and Sheaths at 1 AU..  Journal of Geophysical Research.  121:10861-10879. 2016
2016 Balloon Launches Introduce Students to Space Science.  Eos.  2016
2016 Earth's magnetosphere and outer radiation belt under sub-Alfvénic solar wind..  Nature Communications.  7:13001. 2016
2016 A small mission concept to the Sun-Earth Lagrangian L5 point for innovative solar, heliospheric and space weather science.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics.  146:171-185. 2016
2016 Longitudinal conjunction between MESSENGER and STEREO A: Development of ICME complexity through stream interactions.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  121:6092-6106. 2016
2016 Small solar wind transients at 1 AU: STEREO observations (2007-2014) and comparison with near-Earth wind results (1995-2014).  Journal of Geophysical Research.  121:5005-5024. 2016
2015 PARTICLE ACCELERATION AT LOW CORONAL COMPRESSION REGIONS AND SHOCKS.  Astrophysical Journal.  810:97-97. 2015
2015 Interplanetary coronal mass ejections from MESSENGER orbital observations at Mercury.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  120:6101-6118. 2015
2015 Extreme geomagnetic disturbances due to shocks within CMEs.  Geophysical Research Letters.  42:4694-4701. 2015
2015 Comparing generic models for interplanetary shocks and magnetic clouds axis configurations at 1 AU.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  120:3328-3349. 2015
2015 Ensemble Modeling of Successive Halo CMEs: A Case Study.  Solar Physics.  290:1207-1229. 2015
2015 Shocks inside CMEs: A survey of properties from 1997 to 2006.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  120:2409-2427. 2015
2015 Broken Power-law Distributions from Low Coronal Compression Regions or Shocks.  Journal of Physics: Conference Series.  642:012025-012025. 2015
2014 An Ensemble Study of a January 2010 Coronal Mass Ejection (CME): Connecting a Non-obvious Solar Source with Its ICME/Magnetic Cloud.  Solar Physics.  289:4173-4208. 2014
2014 SUN-TO-EARTH CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS INTERACTING NEAR 1 AU: FORMATION OF A COMPLEX EJECTA AND GENERATION OF A TWO-STEP GEOMAGNETIC STORM.  Astrophysical Journal Letters.  793:L41-L41. 2014
2014 Deflected propagation of a coronal mass ejection from the corona to interplanetary space.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  119:5117-5132. 2014
2014 CONNECTING SPEEDS, DIRECTIONS AND ARRIVAL TIMES OF 22 CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS FROM THE SUN TO 1 AU.  Astrophysical Journal.  787:119-119. 2014
2014 Synthesis of 3-D Coronal-Solar Wind Energetic Particle Acceleration Modules.  Space Weather.  12:323-328. 2014
2014 Observations of an extreme storm in interplanetary space caused by successive coronal mass ejections..  Nature Communications.  5:3481. 2014
2014 A new class of complex ejecta resulting fromthe interaction of two CMEs and its expected geoeffectiveness.  Geophysical Research Letters.  41:769-776. 2014
2014 A statistical analysis of properties of small transients in the solar wind 2007-2009: STEREO andWind observations.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  119:689-708. 2014
2014 Geo-effectiveness and radial dependence of magnetic cloud erosion by magnetic reconnection.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  119:26-35. 2014
2013 A PLASMA beta TRANSITION WITHIN A PROPAGATING FLUX ROPE.  Astrophysical Journal.  779:142-142. 2013
2013 THE INTERACTION OF TWO CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS: INFLUENCE OF RELATIVE ORIENTATION.  Astrophysical Journal.  778:20-20. 2013
2013 ESTABLISHING A STEREOSCOPIC TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE KINEMATIC PROPERTIES OF SOLAR WIND TRANSIENTS BASED ON A GENERALIZED SELF-SIMILARLY EXPANDING CIRCULAR GEOMETRY.  Astrophysical Journal.  777:167-167. 2013
2013 Effect of Solar Wind Drag on the Determination of the Properties of Coronal Mass Ejections from Heliospheric Images.  Solar Physics.  285:281-294. 2013
2013 Features of the interaction of interplanetary coronal mass ejections/magnetic clouds with the Earth's magnetosphere.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics.  99:14-26. 2013
2013 Observations and Modelling of the Inner Heliosphere: Preface and Tribute to the Late Dr. Andy Breen.  Solar Physics.  285:1-7. 2013
2013 Complex Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Inner Heliosphere as Revealed by Numerical Simulations and STEREO Observations: A Review.  Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union.  8:255-264. 2013
2013 ON SUN-TO-EARTH PROPAGATION OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS.  Astrophysical Journal.  769:45-45. 2013
2013 Assessing the Constrained Harmonic Mean Method for Deriving the Kinematics of ICMEs with a Numerical Simulation.  Solar Physics.  283:541-556. 2013
2013 A Planar, Pressure-Balanced, Reconnecting Structure Embedded in a Small Solar Wind Transient.  AIP Conference Proceedings.  1539:163-166. 2013
2012 A STUDY OF THE HELIOCENTRIC DEPENDENCE OF SHOCK STANDOFF DISTANCE AND GEOMETRY USING 2.5D MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF CORONAL MASS EJECTION DRIVEN SHOCKS.  Astrophysical Journal.  759:103-103. 2012
2012 Explaining fast ejections of plasma and exotic X-ray emission from the solar corona.  Nature Physics.  8:845-849. 2012
2012 THE DEFLECTION OF THE TWO INTERACTING CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS OF 2010 MAY 23-24 AS REVEALED BY COMBINED IN SITU MEASUREMENTS AND HELIOSPHERIC IMAGING.  Astrophysical Journal.  759:68-68. 2012
2012 Heliospheric Observations of STEREO-Directed Coronal Mass Ejections in 2008-2010: Lessons for Future Observations of Earth-Directed CMEs.  Solar Physics.  279:497-515. 2012
2012 UNDERSTANDING SDO/AIA OBSERVATIONS OF THE 2010 JUNE 13EUV WAVE EVENT: DIRECT INSIGHT FROM A GLOBAL THERMODYNAMIC MHD SIMULATION.  Astrophysical Journal.  750:134-134. 2012
2012 A SELF-SIMILAR EXPANSION MODEL FOR USE IN SOLAR WIND TRANSIENT PROPAGATION STUDIES.  Astrophysical Journal.  750:23-23. 2012
2011 ARRIVAL TIME CALCULATION FOR INTERPLANETARY CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS WITH CIRCULAR FRONTS AND APPLICATION TO STEREO OBSERVATIONS OF THE 2009 FEBRUARY 13 ERUPTION.  Astrophysical Journal.  741:34-34. 2011
2011 NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF A CORONAL MASS EJECTION FROM AN ANEMONE ACTIVE REGION: RECONNECTION AND DEFLECTION OF THE 2005 AUGUST 22 ERUPTION.  Astrophysical Journal.  738:127-127. 2011
2011 ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN MAGNETIC CLOUDS AND INTERPLANETARY CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS: WRITHE VERSUS TWIST.  Astrophysical Journal Letters.  738:L18-L18. 2011
2011 Determining CME parameters by fitting heliospheric observations: Numerical investigation of the accuracy of the methods.  Advances in Space Research.  48:292-299. 2011
2011 Numerical modeling of interplanetary coronal mass ejections and comparison with heliospheric images.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics.  73:1187-1200. 2011
2011 STUDYING EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET WAVE TRANSIENTS WITH A DIGITAL LABORATORY: DIRECT COMPARISON OF EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET WAVE OBSERVATIONS TO GLOBAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS.  Astrophysical Journal.  728:2-2. 2011
2010 Accuracy and Limitations of Fitting and Stereoscopic Methods to Determine the Direction of Coronal Mass Ejections from Heliospheric Imagers Observations.  Solar Physics.  267:411-429. 2010
2010 DETERMINING THE AZIMUTHAL PROPERTIES OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS FROM MULTI-SPACECRAFT REMOTE-SENSING OBSERVATIONS WITH STEREO SECCHI.  Astrophysical Journal.  715:493-499. 2010
2010 TOWARD A REALISTIC THERMODYNAMIC MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE GLOBAL SOLAR CORONA.  Astrophysical Journal.  712:1219-1231. 2010
2009 Solar-Terrestrial Simulation in the STEREO Era: The 24-25 January 2007 Eruptions.  Solar Physics.  256:269-284. 2009
2009 THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS: ARE ALL REGULAR MAGNETIC CLOUDS FLUX ROPES?.  Astrophysical Journal Letters.  695:L171-L175. 2009
2009 MAPPING THE STRUCTURE OF THE CORONA USING FOURIER BACKPROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY.  Astrophysical Journal.  690:1119-1129. 2009
2009 Deriving the radial distances of wide coronal mass ejections from elongation measurements in the heliosphere - application to CME-CME interaction.  Annales Geophysicae.  27:3479-3488. 2009
2008 The brightness of density structures at large solar elongation angles: What is being observed by STEREO SECCHI?.  Astrophysical Journal Letters.  684:L111-L114. 2008
2008 Three-dimensional MHD simulation of the 2003 October 28 coronal mass ejection: Comparison with LASCO coronagraph observations.  Astrophysical Journal.  684:1448-1460. 2008
2008 Theoretical modeling for the STEREO mission.  Space Science Reviews.  136:565-604. 2008
2008 Observational evidence of CMEs interacting in the inner heliospher as inferred from MHD simulations.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics.  70:598-604. 2008
2008 Validation of a global 3D heliospheric model with observations for the May 12, 1997 CME event.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics.  70:583-592. 2008
2007 New physical insight on the changes in magnetic topology during coronal mass ejections: Case studies for the 2002 April 21 and August 24 events.  Astrophysical Journal.  668:L87-L90. 2007
2007 Numerical investigation of the homologous coronal mass ejection events from active region 9236.  Astrophysical Journal.  659:788-800. 2007
2005 Numerical simulation of the interaction of two coronal mass ejections from sun to earth.  Astrophysical Journal.  634:651-662. 2005
2005 The evolution of coronal mass ejection density structures.  Astrophysical Journal.  627:1019-1030. 2005
2005 Simultaneous Chandra X ray, Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet, and Ulysses radio observations of Jupiter's aurora.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  110. 2005
2003 Implications of Jovian X-ray emission for magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.  Journal of Geophysical Research.  108. 2003
Heliospheric Observations of STEREO-Directed Coronal Mass Ejections in 2008--2010: Lessons for Future Observations of Earth-Directed CMEs.  Solar Physics.  279:497-515.

Chapter

Year Title
2019 Space Weather at Earth and in Our Solar System.  335-361. 2019
2015 Eruptive Prominences and Their Impact on the Earth and Our Life.  433-453. 2015
2008 Theoretical Modeling for the STEREO Mission.  565-604. 2008

Conference Proceeding

Year Title
2013 Small Solar Wind Transients: Stereo-A Observations in 2009.  AIP Conference Proceedings. 311-314. 2013
2010 Solar-Terrestrial Simulations of CMEs with a Realistic Initiation Mechanism: Case Study for Active Region 10069.  AIP Conference Proceedings. 440-+. 2010
2009 The August 24, 2002 coronal mass ejection: when a western limb event connects to earth.  Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 391-+. 2009
2008 Global MHD modeling of CMEs and related shocks from complex active regions.  AIP Conference Proceedings. 286-+. 2008

Principal Investigator On

  • Successive Coronal Mass Ejections and Associated Solar Energetic Particles  awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2019 - 2022
  • Physical Origins of Suprathermal Ion Populations Throughout the Heliosphere  awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2017 - 2020
  • Successive and Interacting CMEs and Their Geo-Effectiveness: Combined Numerical Investigations and Data Analysis  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2015 - 2020
  • Evolution of the Magnetic Field in Solar Transients Between the Upper Corona and 1 AU  awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2014 - 2019
  • SHINE: Collaborative Research: Data-Constrained Simulations of Coronal Mass Ejection Initiation and Propagation  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2015 - 2019
  • Collaborative Research: Reconciliation Between In-Situ and Remote Sensing Analyses  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2015 - 2019
  • SHINE Workshop Coordination  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 - 2018
  • Numerical Investigation of CME Evolution in the Corona and Inner Heliosphere and How it Determines CME Properties at 1 AU  awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2013 - 2017
  • SHINE Workshop Coordination  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2014 - 2016
  • The Non-Ideal Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections: Numerical Studies  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012 - 2016
  • Numerical Investigation of CME-CME Interaction and its Consequences From the Low Corona to 1AU  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012 - 2015

    • Teaching Activities

  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2018
  • Rsrch Exp/Physics Taught course 2017
  • Space Plasma Physics Taught course 2017
  • Space Plasma Physics Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • M.S. Atmospheric Sci.S&Meteorology, University of Michigan
  • Ph.D. Space Physics, University of Michigan

    • Full Name

  • Noe Lugaz