Yash Sarkango, Ph.D.

Yash Sarkganko
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email
[email protected]
Education
  • 2021, PhD in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
  • 2016, MSE in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
  • 2015, BTech in Aeronautical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology

Biography

Yash Sarkango is a postdoctoral researcher studying Jupiter's magnetosphere and its interaction with the Galilean satellites - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto- by analyzing NASA's Juno spacecraft data; current research interest is to study plasma distributions in Jupiter's magnetosphere, mainly using data from the JADE plasma instrument. Yash has broad experience in scientific computing, ranging from large-scale numerical models to processing and analyzing plasma and field data from space-borne instruments.

Yash left Princeton in February 2025 to take a position at the University of Minnesota.

Selected Publications
  1. Sarkango, Y., Szalay, J. R., Sulaiman, A. H., Damiano, P. A., McComas, D. J., Rabia, J., et al. (2024). Resonant plasma acceleration at Jupiter driven by satellite-magnetosphere interactions. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107431. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107431
  2. Sarkango, Y.,  Szalay, J. R.,  Poppe, A. R.,  Nénon, Q.,  Kollmann, P.,  Clark, G., &  McComas, D. J. (2023). Proton equatorial pitch angle distributions in Jupiter's inner magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters,  50, e2023GL104374. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104374
  3. Sarkango, Y.,  Slavin, J. A.,  Jia, X.,  DiBraccio, G. A.,  Clark, G. B.,  Sun, W., et al. (2022).  Properties of ion-inertial scale plasmoids observed by the Juno spacecraft in the Jovian magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  127, e2021JA030181. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030181
  4. Sarkango, Y.,  Slavin, J. A.,  Jia, X.,  DiBraccio, G. A.,  Gershman, D. J.,  Connerney, J. E. P., et al. (2021).  Juno observations of ion-inertial scale flux ropes in the Jovian magnetotail. Geophysical Research Letters,  48, e2020GL089721. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089721
  5. Sarkango, Y.,  Jia, X., &  Toth, G. (2019).  Global MHD simulations of the response of Jupiter's magnetosphere and ionosphere to changes in the solar wind and IMF. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  124,  5317–5341. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026787