Publications

(Alphabetical by author)
Most Recent Update: 14 September 2007
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Brain, D.A., J.S. Halekas, and J.P. Eastwood, Observation of a Large Core Field Flux Rope near Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., in preparation, 2007.

Brain, D.A., R.J. Lillis, D.L. Mitchell, J.S. Halekas, and R.P. Lin, Electron Pitch Angle Distributions as Indicators of Magnetic Field Topology near Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A09201, doi:10.1029/2007JA012435.
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Brain, D.A., Mars Global Surveyor Measurements of the Martian Solar Wind Interaction, Space Science Reviews, 126, doi:10.1007/s11214-006-9122-x, 77-112, online January 31, 2007.
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Brain, D.A., D.L. Mitchell, J.S. Halekas, The magnetic field draping direction at Mars from April 1999 through August 2004, Icarus, 182(2), pp. 464-473, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.023, June 2006.
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Brain, D.A., J.S. Halekas, L.M. Peticolas, R.P. Lin, J.G. Luhmann, D.L. Mitchell, G.T. Delory, S.W. Bougher, M.H. Acuna, H. Reme, On the origin of aurorae on Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(1), L01201, 10.1029/2005GL024782, 05 January 2005.
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Brain, D.A., J.S. Halekas, R. Lillis, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, Variability of the Altitude of the Martian Sheath, GRL, 32(18), L18203, doi:10.1029/2005GL023126, 24 September 2005.
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Brain, D.A., The bow shock and upstream waves at Venus and Mars, Adv. Space Res., 33(11), 1913--1919, 2004.

Brain, D.A., F. Bagenal, M.H. Acuña, and J.E.P. Connerney, Martian magnetic morphology: Contributions from the solar wind and crust, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12), 1424, doi:10.1029/2002JA009482, 2003.
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Brain, D.A., J.G. Luhmann and C.T. Russell, Contemporary atmospheric escape at Mars: Implications for astrobiology, JPL Tech. Report, 2003.
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Brain, D.A., F. Bagenal, M.H. Acuña, J.E.P. Connerney, D.H. Crider, C. Mazelle, D.L. Mitchell, and N.F. Ness, Observations of low frequency electromagnetic plasma waves upstream from the Martian shock by MGS MAG, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A6), 1076, doi:10.1029/2000JA000416, 2002.
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Brain, D.A., The influences of crustal magnetic sources on the toplogy of the Martian magnetic environment, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002.

Brain, D.A. and B.M. Jakosky, Atmospheric loss since the onset of the Martian geologic record: Combined role of impact erosion and sputtering, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 22689, 1998.

Carlsson, E., D. Brain, J. Luhmann, S. Barabash, A. Grigoriev, H. Nilsson, and R. Lundin, Influence of IMF draping direction and crustal magnetic field location on Martian ion beams, Planetary and Space Science, in press, 2007.

Cloutier, P.A., C.C. Law, D.H. Crider, P.W. Walker, Y. Chen, M.H. Acuña, J.E.P. Connerney, R.P. Lin, K.A. Anderson, D.L. Mitchell, C.W. Carlson, J. McFadden, D.A. Brain, H. Rème, C. Mazelle, J.A. Sauvaud, C. d'Uston, C. D. Vignes, S.J. Bauer, and N.F. Ness, Venus-like interaction of the solar wind with Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2685, 1999.

Coates, A.J., R.A. Frahm, D.R. Linder, D.O. Kataria, Y Soobiah, G. Collinson, J.R. Sharber, J.D. Winningham, S.J. Jeffers, S. Barabash, J.-A. Sauvaud, R. Lundin, M. Holmström, Y. Futaana, M. Yamauchi, A. Grigoriev, H. Andersson, H. Gunell, A. Fedorov, J.-J. Thocaven, T.L. Zhang, W. Baumjohann, E. Kallio, H. Koskinen, J.U. Kozyra, M.W. Liemohn, Y. Ma, A. Galli, P. Wurz, P. Bochsler, D. Brain, E.C. Roelof, P. Brandt, N. Krupp, J. Woch, M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, S. McKenna-Lawlor, S. Orsini, R. Cerulli-Irelli, A. Mura, A. Milillo, M. Maggi, C.C. Curtis, B.R. Sandel, K.C. Hsieh, and K. Szego, A. Asamura, and M. Grande, Ionospheric Photoelectrons at Venus: Initial Observations by ASPERA-4 ELS, Planetary and Space Science, accepted, 2007.

Crider, D.H., J. Espley, D.A. Brain, D.L. Mitchell, J.E.P. Connerney, M.H. Acuña, Mars Global Surveyor observations of the Halloween 2003 solar super-storm's encounter with Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 110(A9), A09S21, doi:10.1029/2004JA010881, 25 August 2005.

Crider, D.H., D.A. Brain, M.H. Acuña, D. Vignes, C. Mazelle, and C. Bertucci, Mars Global Surveyor observations of solar wind magnetic field draping around Mars, Space Sci. Rev., 111(1), 203--221, 2004.

Crider D., M. Acuña, J. Connerney, D. Mitchell, R. Lin, P. Cloutier, H. Reme, C. Mazelle, D. Brain, N. Ness, and S. Bauer, Magnetic field draping around Mars: Mars Global Surveyor results, Adv. Space Res., 27(11), 1831-1836 2001.

Eastwood, J.P., D.A. Brain, J.S. Halekas, J.F. Drake, T.-D. Phan, M. Øieroset, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, and M.H. Acuña, Evidence for Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection at Mars, Science, submitted, 2007.

Ergun, R.E., L. Andersson, W.K. Peterson, D. Brain, G.T. Delory, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, and A.W. Yau, Role of plasma waves in Mars' atmospheric loss, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(14), L14103, doi:10.1029/2006GL025785, 2006.

Espley, J.R., W.M. Farrell, D.A. Brain, D.D. Morgan, B. Cantor, J.J. Plaut, M. H. Acuña, G. Picardi, Absorption of MARSIS radar signals: Solar energetic particles and the daytime ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(9), L09101, doi:10.1029/2007GL028829, 02 May 2007.

Espley, J.R., P.A. Cloutier, D.H. Crider, D.A. Brain, and M.H. Acuña, Low frequency plasma oscillations at Mars during the October 2003 storm, J. Geophys. Res., 110(A9), A09S33, doi:10.1029/2004JA010935, 11 August 2004.

Espley, J.R., P.A. Cloutier, D.A. Brain, D.H. Crider, and M.H. Acuña, Observations of low frequency magnetic oscillations in the Martian magnetosheath, magnetic pileup region, and tail, J. Geophys. Res., 109(A18), 7213, doi:10.1029/2003JA010193, 2004.

Ferguson, B., J.C. Cain, D. Crider, D. Brain, and E. Harnett, External fields on the night-side of Mars at Mars Global Surveyor Mapping Altitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(16), L16105, doi:10.1029/2004GL021964, 26 August 2005.

Fillingim, M., L.M. Peticolas, R.J. Lillis, D.A. Brain, J.S. Halekas, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, D. Lummerzheim, S. Bougher, and D. Kirchner, Model calculations of electron precipitation induced ionization patches on the nightside of Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(12), L12101, doi:10.1029/2007GL029986, 16 June 2007.

Futaana, Y., S. Barabash, M. Yamauchi, S. McKenna-Lawlor, R. Lundin, J.G. Luhmann, D. Brain, E. Carlsson, J.-A. Sauvaud, J.D. Winningham, R.A. Frahm, P.Wurz, M. Holmström, H. Gunell, E. Kallio, W. Baumjohann, H. Lammer, J.R. Sharber (e), K.C. Hsieh, H. Andersson, A. Grigoriev, K. Brinkfeldt, H. Nilsson, K. Asamura, T. L. Zhang, A. J. Coates, D. R. Linder, D. O. Kataria, C. C. Curtis, B. R. Sandel, A. Fedorov, C. Mazelle, J.-J. Thocaven, M. Grande, H.E.J. Koskinen, T. Sales, W. Schmidt, P. Riihela, J. Kozyra, N. Krupp , J. Woch, M. Fränz, E. Dubinin, S. Orsini, R. Cerulli-Irelli, A. Mura, A. Milillo, M. Maggi, E. Roelof, P. Brandt, K. Szego, J. Scherrer, and P. Bochsler, Mars Express and Venus Express multi-point observations of geoeffective solar flare events in December 2006, Planetary and Space Science, submitted, 2007.

Halekas, J.S., D.A. Brain, R.P. Lin, D.L. Mitchell, Solar Wind Interaction with Lunar Crustal Magnetic Anomalies, Adv. Space Res., in press, 2007.

Halekas, J.S., G.T. Delory, D.A. Brain, R.P. Lin1, M.O. Fillingim, C.O. Lee, R.A. Mewaldt, T.J. Stubbs, W.M. Farrell, M.K. Hudson, Extreme Lunar Surface Charging During Solar Energetic Particle Events, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(2), L02111, doi:10.1029/2006GL028517, 30 January 2007.

Halekas, J.S., D.A. Brain, R.P. Lin, J.G. Luhmann, D.L. Mitchell, Distribution and Variability of Accelerated Electrons at Mars, Adv. Space Res., doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.034, JASR 8614, online 23 January 2007.

Halekas, J.S., D.A. Brain, D.L. Mitchell, and R.P. Lin, Whistler waves observed near lunar crustal magnetic sources, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(22), L22104, doi:10.1029/2006GL027684, 27 November 2006.

Halekas, J.S., D.A. Brain, R.J. Lillis, M. Fillingim, D.L. Mitchell, and R.P. Lin, Current Sheets at Low Altitudes in the Martian Magnetotail, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13101, doi:10.1029/2006GL026229, 2006.

Halekas, J.S., D.A. Brain, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, L. Harrison, On the occurrence of magnetic enhancements caused by solar wind interaction with lunar crustal fields, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(8), L08106, 10.1029/2006GL025931, 27 April 2006.

Leblanc, F. O. Witasse, J. Lilensten, R.A. Frahm, A. Safaenili, D.A. Brain, J. Mouginot, J.L. Bertaux, J.D. Winningham, W. Kofman, R. Lundin, J. Halekas, and M. Holmstrom, Mutli-instrument observations of an aurora-type event by Mars Express, Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted, 2007.

Leblanc F., O. Witasse O., J. Winningham, D. Brain, J. Lilensten, P.-L. Blelly, R.A. Frahm, J.S. Halekas, and J.L. Bertaux, Origins of the Martian aurora observed by Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM) on board Mars Express, J. Geophys. Res., 111(A9), A09313, 10.1029/2006JA011763, 22 September 2006.

Liemohn, R.A. Frahm, J.D. Winningham, Y. Ma, S. Barabash, R. Lundin, J.U. Kozyra, A.F. Nagy, S.M. Bougher, J. Bell, D. Brain et al., Numerical interpretation of high-altitude photoelectron observations, Icarus, 182(2), doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.10.036, p. 383-395, June 2006.

Lillis, R.J., S.W. Bougher, D.L. Mitchell, D.A. Brain, R.P. Lin and M.H. Acuna, Continuous monitoring of nightside upper thermospheric mass densities in the Martian southern hemisphere over 4 Martian years using electron reflectometry, Icarus, submitted, 2007.

Lillis, R.J., J.H. Engel, D.L. Mitchell, D.A. Brain, R.P. Lin, S.W. Bougher, M.H. Acuña, Probing upper thermospheric neutral densities at Mars using electron reflectometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(23), L23204, 10.1029/2005GL024337, 15 December 2005.

Luhmann, J.G., D.A. Brain, G.T. Delory, R. Turner, C.J. Zeitlin, J.G. Lyon, Solar Energetic Particles in Near-Mars Space, Planetary and Space Science, submitted, 2006.

Lundin, R., D. Winningham, S. Barabash, R. Frahm, D. Brain, H. Nilsson, M. Holmström, M. Yamauchi, J.R. Sharber, J.-A. Sauvaud, A. Fedorov, K. Asamura, H. Hayakawa, A.J. Coates, Y. Soobiah, C. Curtis, K.C. Hsieh, M. Grande, H. Koskinen, E. Kallio, J. Kozyra, J. Woch, M. Fraenz, J. Luhmann, S. McKenna-Lawler, R. S. Orsini, P. Brandt, and P. Wurz, Auroral Plasma Acceleration Above Martian Magnetic Anomalies, Space Science Reviews, doi:10.1007/s11214-006-9086-x, online January 26, 2007.

Lundin, R., D. Winningham, S. Barabash, R. Frahm, M. Holmström, J.-A. Sauvaud, A. Fedorov, K. Asamura, A. J. Coates, Y. Soobiah, K. C. Hsieh, M. Grande, H. Koskinen, E. Kallio, J. Kozyra, J. Woch, M. Fraenz, D. Brain, J. Luhmann, S. McKenna-Lawler, R. S. Orsini, P. Brandt, and P. Wurz, Plasma Acceleration Above Martian Magnetic Anomalies, Science, 311(5763), pp. 980-983, doi:10.1126/science.1122071, 17 February 2006.

Mazelle, C., D. Winterhalter, K. Sauer, J.-G. Trotignon, M.H. Acuña, K. Baumgartel, C. Bertucci, D.A. Brain, S.H. Brecht, M. Delva, E. Dubinin, M. Oieroset, and J. Slavin, Bow shock and upstream phenomena at Mars, Space Sci. Rev., 111(1), 115--181, 2004.

Morgan, D.D., D.A. Gurnett, D.L. Kirchner, J.D. Winningham, D.A. Brain, E. Nielsen, M.H. Acuña, J.J. Plaut, and G. Picardi, A Radar Absorption Event Detected by the MARSIS Active Ionospheric Sounder, Geophys. Res. Lett., to be submitted, 2006.

Morgan, D.D., D.A. Gurnett, D.L. Kirchner, R.L. Huff, D.A. Brain, W.V. Boynton, M. H. Acuña, J. J. Plaut, and G. Picardi, Solar control of radar wave absorption by the Martian ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13202, doi:10.1029/2006GL026637, 2006..

Rousselot, P., S.M. Hill, M.H. Burger, D.A. Brain, C. Laffont, and G. Moreels, Theoretical modeling of the C2 flourescence spectrum in comet Hale-Bopp, Icarus, 146, 263-269, 2000.