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Licia Ray supervises 4 postgraduate research students. If these students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:

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Leah Clare
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Sam Farr
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Wayne Gould
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Hannah Joyce
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Dr Licia Ray FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Space and Planetary Physics

Physics

Physics Building

LA1 4YB

Lancaster

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ORCID: 0000-0003-3727-602X

Research overview

Planets are connected to their surrounding plasma environment by their planetary magnetic fields, which threads the atmosphere and generates the magnetosphere. This interaction generates bright auroral signatures. Each planetary system has different local conditions. Jupiter and Saturn are rotationally dominated gas giants with strong magnetic fields and geologically active moons within their magnetospheres. The Earth rotates more slowly and has a relatively empty magnetosphere. By comparing these systems, we can understand which physical processes dominate under different regimes. I am interested in the auroral acceleration region, auroral current systems, and the effect of the upper atmosphere on the magnetosphere.

PhD supervision

PhD projects are available in various aspects of modelling magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling and auroral physics at Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth.

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Publications & Outputs

Published
In situ evidence of the magnetospheric cusp of Jupiter from Juno spacecraft measurements
Xu, Y., Arridge, C. S., Yao, Z. H., Zhang, B., Ray, L. C., Badman, S. V., Dunn, W. R., Ebert, R. W., Chen, J. J., Allegrini, F., Kurth, W. S., Qin, T. S., Connerney, J. E. P., McComas, D. J., Bolton, S. J. & Wei, Y., 18/07/2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 6062.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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The Colocation of Magnetic Reconnection and Current Disruption in Jovian Middle Magnetosphere
Pan, D.-X., Yao, Z.-H., Guo, R.-L., Arridge, C. S., Ray, L. C., Zhao, Y., Clark, G., Rae, I. J., Lui, A. T. Y., Zhang, B.-Z., Wei, Y., Zhou, X.-Z., Fu, H.-S., Connerney, J. E. P. & Bolton, S. J., 9/07/2024, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 969, 2, L35.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Revealing the Local Time Structure of the Alfvén Radius in Jupiter's Magnetosphere Through High‐Resolution Simulations
Xu, Y., Ray, L., Yao, Z., Zhang, B., Bonfond, B., Badman, S., Grodent, D., Feng, E., Qin, T. & Wei, Y., 1/06/2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 129, 6, e2024JE008368.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review