(RESEARCH AST, FIELDS AND PARTICLES)
Org Code: 673
NASA/GSFCEmployer: NASA
2018 – Present: Research Astrophysicist, Heliophysics Science Division/NASA GSFC
2014 – 2018: Research Scientist, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy/University of Maryland/GSFC
2006 – 2014: Research associate professor, Research assistant professor, Research Scientist III, Department of Physics and Space Science Center/University of New Hampshire
2002 – 2006: Assistant Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy/University of Iowa
Bessho, N., L.-J. Chen, M. Hesse, et al. J. Ng, L. B. Wilson, and J. E. Stawarz. 2023. Electron Acceleration and Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in the Earth's Quasi-parallel Bow Shock The Astrophysical Journal 954 (1): 25 [10.3847/1538-4357/ace321]
Ng, J., B. M. Walsh, L. Chen, and Y. Omelchenko. 2023. Soft X‐Ray Imaging of Earth's Dayside Magnetosheath and Cusps Using Hybrid Simulations Geophysical Research Letters 50 (10): [10.1029/2023gl103347]
Le, A., L.-J. Chen, B. Wetherton, B. Keenan, and A. Stanier. 2023. Oblique propagation and temperature effects on the resonant right-hand ion beam instability Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9 [10.3389/fspas.2022.1100472]
Burkholder, B. L., L. Chen, S. Fuselier, et al. D. Gershman, C. Schiff, J. Shuster, Y. Zou, B. M. Walsh, P. Reiff, S. Petrinec, and A. Sciola. 2022. MMS Observations of Storm‐Time Magnetopause Boundary Layers in the Vicinity of the Southern Cusp Geophysical Research Letters 49 (24): [10.1029/2022gl101231]
Pollock, C. J., L.-J. Chen, S. J. Schwartz, et al. S. Wang, L. Avanov, J. L. Burch, D. J. Gershman, B. L. Giles, S. Raptis, and C. T. Russell. 2022. Dynamics of Earth's bow shock under near-radial interplanetary magnetic field conditions Physics of Plasmas 29 (11): 112902 [10.1063/5.0089937]
Ng, J., L. Chen, Y. Omelchenko, Y. Zou, and B. Lavraud. 2022. Hybrid Simulations of the Cusp and Dayside Magnetosheath Dynamics Under Quasi‐Radial Interplanetary Magnetic Fields Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 127 (10): [10.1029/2022ja030359]
Ng, J., L. Chen, N. Bessho, et al. J. Shuster, B. Burkholder, and J. Yoo. 2022. Electron‐Scale Reconnection in Three‐Dimensional Shock Turbulence Geophysical Research Letters 49 (15): [10.1029/2022gl099544]
Wang, S., L. Chen, N. Bessho, et al. J. Ng, M. Hesse, D. B. Graham, O. Le Contel, D. Gershman, and B. Giles. 2022. Lower‐Hybrid Wave Structures and Interactions With Electrons Observed in Magnetotail Reconnection Diffusion Regions Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 127 (5): [10.1029/2021ja030109]
Bessho, N., L.-J. Chen, J. E. Stawarz, et al. S. Wang, M. Hesse, L. B. Wilson, and J. Ng. 2022. Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence Physics of Plasmas 29 (4): 042304 [10.1063/5.0077529]
Silva, D., L. J. Chen, S. Fuselier, et al. S. Wang, S. Elkington, J. Dorelli, B. Burkholder, and D. Sibeck. 2022. Automatic Identification and New Observations of Ion Energy Dispersion Events in the Cusp Ionosphere Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 127 (4): [10.1029/2021ja029637]
Collinson, G. A., L.-J. Chen, L. K. Jian, and J. Dorelli. 2022. The Solar Wind at (16) Psyche: Predictions for a Metal World The Astrophysical Journal 927 (2): 202 [10.3847/1538-4357/ac51d7]
Chen, L., J. Halekas, S. Wang, et al. G. A. DiBraccio, N. Romanelli, J. Ng, C. T. Russell, S. J. Schwartz, D. G. Sibeck, W. Farrell, C. Pollock, D. Gershman, B. Giles, and Y. M. Collado-Vega. 2022. Solitary Magnetic Structures Developed From Gyro‐Resonance With Solar Wind Ions at Mars and Earth Geophysical Research Letters 49 (3): [10.1029/2021gl097600]
Zou, Y., B. M. Walsh, L. Chen, et al. J. Ng, X. Shi, C. Wang, L. R. Lyons, J. Liu, V. Angelopoulos, K. A. McWilliams, and J. Michael Ruohoniemi. 2022. Unsteady Magnetopause Reconnection Under Quasi‐Steady Solar Wind Driving Geophysical Research Letters 49 (1): [10.1029/2021gl096583]
Kolstø, H. M., C. Norgren, M. Hesse, et al. L. Chen, P. Tenfjord, S. F. Spinnangr, and N. Kwagala. 2021. Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of an Expanding Oxygen Wave in Magnetic Reconnection Geophysical Research Letters 48 (19): [10.1029/2021gl095065]
Ng, J., L.-J. Chen, and Y. A. Omelchenko. 2021. Bursty magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause triggered by high-speed jets Physics of Plasmas 28 (9): 092902 [10.1063/5.0054394]
Schwartz, S. J., R. Ergun, H. Kucharek, et al. L. Wilson, L. Chen, K. Goodrich, D. Turner, I. Gingell, H. Madanian, D. Gershman, and R. Strangeway. 2021. Evaluating the deHoffmann‐Teller Cross‐Shock Potential at Real Collisionless Shocks Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (8): e2021JA029295 [10.1029/2021ja029295]
Wang, S., L.-J. Chen, J. Ng, et al. N. Bessho, G. Le, S. F. Fung, D. J. Gershman, and B. L. Giles. 2021. A statistical study of three-second foreshock ULF waves observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission Physics of Plasmas 28 (8): 082901 [10.1063/5.0055972]
Shuster, J. R., D. J. Gershman, J. C. Dorelli, et al. B. L. Giles, S. Wang, N. Bessho, L.-J. Chen, P. Cassak, S. Schwartz, R. Denton, V. Uritsky, W. R. Paterson, C. Schiff, A. Vinas, J. Ng, L. A. Avanov, D. da Silva, and R. Torbert. 2021. Structures in the terms of the Vlasov equation observed at Earth’s magnetopause Nature Physics [10.1038/s41567-021-01280-6]
Madanian, H., S. J. Schwartz, S. A. Fuselier, et al. D. Burgess, D. L. Turner, L.-J. Chen, M. I. Desai, and M. J. Starkey. 2021. Direct Evidence for Magnetic Reflection of Heavy Ions from High Mach Number Collisionless Shocks The Astrophysical Journal Letters 915 (1): L19 [10.3847/2041-8213/ac0aee]
Omelchenko, Y. A., L. Chen, and J. Ng. 2021. 3D Space‐Time Adaptive Hybrid Simulations of Magnetosheath High‐Speed Jets Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (7): [10.1029/2020ja029035]
Wang, S., L.-J. Chen, J. Ng, N. Bessho, and M. Hesse. 2021. Lower-hybrid drift waves and their interaction with plasmas in a 3D symmetric reconnection simulation with zero guide field Physics of Plasmas 28 (7): 072102 [10.1063/5.0054626]
Chen, L., J. Ng, Y. Omelchenko, and S. Wang. 2021. Magnetopause Reconnection and Indents Induced by Foreshock Turbulence Geophysical Research Letters 48 (11): [10.1029/2021gl093029]
Lin, Y., X. Y. Wang, M. Fok, et al. N. Buzulukova, J. D. Perez, L. Cheng, and L. Chen. 2021. Magnetotail‐Inner Magnetosphere Transport Associated With Fast Flows Based on Combined Global‐Hybrid and CIMI Simulation Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (3): [10.1029/2020ja028405]
Wilson, L. B., L.-J. Chen, and V. Roytershteyn. 2021. The Discrepancy Between Simulation and Observation of Electric Fields in Collisionless Shocks Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 7 (592634): 14 [10.3389/fspas.2020.592634]
Chen, L., S. Wang, J. Ng, et al. N. Bessho, J. Tang, S. F. Fung, G. Le, D. Gershman, B. Giles, C. T. Russell, R. Torbert, and J. Burch. 2021. Solitary Magnetic Structures at Quasi‐Parallel Collisionless Shocks: Formation Geophysical Research Letters 48 (1): [10.1029/2020gl090800]
Balachandran, R., L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, and M.-C. H. Fok. 2021. Correlating the interplanetary factors to distinguish extreme and major geomagnetic storms Earth and Planetary Physics 5 (2): 1-7 [10.26464/epp2021015]
Ng, J., L. Chen, A. Le, et al. A. Stanier, S. Wang, and N. Bessho. 2020. Lower‐Hybrid‐Drift Vortices in the Electron‐Scale Magnetic Reconnection Layer Geophysical Research Letters 47 (22): [10.1029/2020gl090726]
Wang, S., L. Chen, J. Ng, et al. N. Bessho, G. Le, S. F. Fung, D. J. Gershman, and B. L. Giles. 2020. A Case Study of Nonresonant Mode 3‐s ULF Waves Observed by MMS Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (11): [10.1029/2020ja028557]
Bessho, N., L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, et al. M. Hesse, L. B. Wilson, and J. Ng. 2020. Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock Physics of Plasmas 27 (9): 092901 [10.1063/5.0012443]
Wang, S., L.-J. Chen, N. Bessho, et al. M. Hesse, L. B. Wilson, R. Denton, J. Ng, B. Giles, R. Torbert, and J. Burch. 2020. Ion-scale Current Structures in Short Large-amplitude Magnetic Structures The Astrophysical Journal 898 (121): 13 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab9b8b]
Chen, L.-J., S. Wang, O. Le Contel, et al. A. Rager, M. Hesse, J. Drake, J. Dorelli, J. Ng, N. Bessho, D. Graham, L. B. Wilson, T. Moore, B. Giles, W. Paterson, B. Lavraud, K. Genestreti, R. Nakamura, Y. Khotyaintsev, R. Ergun, R. Torbert, J. Burch, C. Pollock, C. Russell, P.-A. Lindqvist, and L. Avanov. 2020. Lower-Hybrid Drift Waves Driving Electron Nongyrotropic Heating and Vortical Flows in a Magnetic Reconnection Layer Physical Review Letters 125 (2): 025103 [10.1103/physrevlett.125.025103]
Ng, J., L. Chen, A. Hakim, and A. Bhattacharjee. 2020. Reconstruction of Electron and Ion Distribution Functions in a Magnetotail Reconnection Diffusion Region Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (7): [10.1029/2020ja027879]
Wilson, L. B., L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, et al. S. J. Schwartz, D. L. Turner, M. L. Stevens, J. C. Kasper, A. Osmane, D. Caprioli, S. D. Bale, M. P. Pulupa, C. S. Salem, and K. A. Goodrich. 2020. Electron Energy Partition across Interplanetary Shocks. III. Analysis The Astrophysical Journal 893 (22): 21 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d39]
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Bessho, N., L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, M. Hesse, and L. B. Wilson. 2019. Magnetic reconnection in a quasi-parallel shock: two-dimensional local particle-in-cell simulation Geophysical Research Letters 46 (16): 9352-9361 [10.1029/2019GL083397]
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Chen, L., S. Wang, M. Hesse, et al. R. E. Ergun, T. Moore, B. Giles, N. Bessho, C. Russell, J. Burch, R. B. Torbert, K. J. Genestreti, W. Paterson, C. Pollock, B. Lavraud, O. Le Contel, R. Strangeway, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, and P. Lindqvist. 2019. Electron Diffusion Regions in Magnetotail Reconnection Under Varying Guide Fields Geophysical Research Letters 46 (12): 6230-6238 [10.1029/2019gl082393]
Shuster, J. R., D. J. Gershman, L. Chen, et al. S. Wang, N. Bessho, J. C. Dorelli, D. E. Silva, B. L. Giles, W. R. Paterson, R. E. Denton, S. J. Schwartz, C. Norgren, F. D. Wilder, P. A. Cassak, M. Swisdak, V. Uritsky, C. Schiff, A. C. Rager, S. Smith, L. A. Avanov, and A. F. Viñas. 2019. MMS Measurements of the Vlasov Equation: Probing the Electron Pressure Divergence Within Thin Current Sheets Geophysical Research Letters 46 (14): 7862-7872 [10.1029/2019gl083549]
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Dynamics of guide-field Reconnection: MMS measurements, PIC simulations, and MRX experiments
14, 2022
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL
Lower hybrid drift waves driving electron nongyrotropic heating and vortical flows in a magnetic reconnection layer
March 1, 2021
Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia
Magnetic reconnection and turbulence: What we learned from the MMS mission and PIC simulations
December 2020
Division of Plasma Physics meeting, American Physical Society
How MMS transforms our understanding of shocks
May 2020
MMS Science Working Team Meeting
Magnetic field amplification, ion acceleration, and reconnection at collisionless shocks
October 12, 2019
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Conference entitled ”Connecting Micro and Macro Scales: Acceleration, Reconnection, and Dissipation in Astrophysical Plasmas,” University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Suprathermal electrons in Earth’s magnetotail, laboratory, and at the Sun
October 3, 2019
Joint HINODE13-IPELS2019 Conference on ”Fundamental processes in the Sun, interplanetary space, and in the Laboratory”, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Electron diffusion regions under varying guide fields in magnetotail reconnection
March 19, 2019
CommunityWorkshop of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, Yosemite, CA,
Reconnection in the magnetotail and at the bow shock: MMS observations and PIC simulations
October 19, 2018
Second APL Workshop on Magnetotail Reconnection Onset and Dipolarization Fronts, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Collisionless heating in magnetic reconnection: New understanding and open challenges
October 5, 2018
US-Japan Magnetic Reconnection Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton
Electron-scale dynamics in magnetic reconnection observed by the MMS mission
August 14, 2018
Scientific Commission D3.2 on cross-scale coupling and multipoint observations in the magnetosphere, 42nd Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly, Pasadena, CA
Electron Heating across Quasi-Perpendicular Shocks
July 21, 2018
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Magnetic reconnection in the era of Heliophysics Science Observatory
July 17, 2018
NSF Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM
2017 - Present
Career Day Speaker, North Bethesda Middle School, June, 2022
Speaker for the Outdoor Afro group (Where Black People & Nature Meet), Magnetic explosions at our home planet and accreting black holes, U. of Maryland Observatory, November, 2017
Speaker, Magnetic explosions at our home planet and accreting black holes, U. of Maryland Observatory Public Open House, November, 2017
Presenter in a Second-Grade Classroom, All about Aurora, Kensington Parkwood Elementary, 11/17/2017
Live interview, MMS and the magnetosphere, NASA Edge, 2018