Toshifumi Mukai
Commendation
For outstanding contributions to the development of space-borne plasma analyzers and the progress in magnetosphere and space plasma physics
A list of five major papers
Mukai, T., and K. Hirao; Rocket measurement of the differential energy spectrum of the photoelectrons, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 8395-8398, 1973.
Mukai, T., W. Miyake, T. Terasawa, M. kitayama, and K. Hirao; Plasma observation by Suisei of solar wind interaction with comet Halley, Nature, 321, 299-303, 1986.
Mukai, T., S. Machida, Y. Saito, et al.; The Low Energy Particle (LEP) experiment onboard the GEOTAIL satellite, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 669-692, 1994.
Mukai, T., M. Hirahara, S. Machida, et al.; GEOTAIL observation of cold ion streams in the medium distance magnetotail lobe in the course of a substorm, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 1023-1026, 1994.
Asano, Y., T. Mukai, M. Hoshino, et al.; Evolution of the thin current sheet in a substorm observed by Geotail, J. Geophys. Res., 108, A5, 1189, doi:10.1029/2002JA009785, 2003.
Nominator
Atsuhiro Nishida