Raluca Ilie

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Contact information

Space Science and Applications, ISR-1
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663, MS D466
Los Alamos, NM 87545

Phone: 505.665.4118

Email: rilie@lanl.gov

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Research Interests

My primary research interest is to gain better understanding of the controlling mechanisms for the solar wind-magnetospheric interactions, storm time inner magnetosphere (ring current, plasma sheet) dynamics and morphology and the physics of geomagnetic storms.

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Publication List

• R. Ilie, R. Skoug, H. Funsten, M. W. Liemohn, J. Bailey, M. Gruntman (2011), The impact of geocoronal density on ring current development, submitted to JASTP.
• R. Ilie, M. W. Liemohn, G. Toth, R. Skoug (2011), Kinetic model of the inner magnetosphere with arbitrary magnetic field, Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.
• C. Cattell, J. Dombeck, A. Preiwisch, S. Thaller, P. Vo, L. B. Wilson, J. Wygant, S. B. Mende, H. U. Frey, Ilie, R., G. Lu (2011), Observations of a high-latitude stable electron auroral emission at 16 MLT during a large substorm, Journal of Geophysical Research.
• M. W. Liemohn, R. Ilie, N. Y. Ganushkina, A. J. Ridley, J. U. Kozyra, M. F. Thomsen, J. E. Borovsky, Testing the necessity of transient spikes in the storm time ring current drivers, Journal of Geophysical Research.
• R. Ilie, M. W. Liemohn, J. U. Kozyra, J.Borovsky (2010), An investigation of the magnetosphere-ionosphere response to real and idealized CIR events through global MHD simulations, Pro- ceedings of the Royal Society A.
• Ganushkina N. Yu, M. W. Liemohn, M. V. Kubyshkina, R. Ilie, H. J. Singer (2010), Distortions of the magnetic field by storm time current systems in Earth's magnetosphere, Annales Geophysicae, Volume 28, Issue 1, pp.123-140.
• R. Ilie, M. W. Liemohn, A. J. Ridley (2010), Effect of smoothed solar wind inputs on global modeling results, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A1.
• M. W. Liemohn, J.C. Zhang, M. F. Thomsen, J. E. Borovsky, J. U. Kozyra, and R. Ilie (2008), Plasma properties of superstorms at geosynchronous orbit: How different are they?, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06S06, doi:10.1029/2007GL031717.
• R. Ilie, M. W. Liemohn, M. F. Thomsen, J. E. Borovsky, and J. Zhang (2008), Influence of epoch time selection on the results of superposed epoch analysis using ACE and MPA data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, A00A14, doi:10.1029/2008JA013241.
• R. Ilie, G. B. Thompson, D. D. Reid, A numerical study of the correspondence between paths in a causal set and geodesics in the continuum (2006), Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 3275-3285.