Education
University of Sydney.
University of Sydney.
She is credited with proving the existence of plasma tubes inside the Earth"s magnetosphere and extending into the plasmasphere. While working on her thesis, Loi followed the suspicions of scientists as far back as 60 years ago theorizing the existence of plasma tubes. Loi was the lead researcher on the project, and first to successfully prove their existence using the Murchison Widefield Array.
The findings of the study were published in the Geophysical Research Letters.
In June 2015, Doctor Tara Murphy of the University of Sydney explained the process by which her undergraduate student, Loi, had used MWA results to determine the existence of plasma channels following the Earth"s magnetic field lines. Loi applied visualization techniques to specific data that showed distortions in positions for distant point sources, explaining the distortion by the existence of tubular structures along the field lines.
Dividing the MWA data into a "stereo" set from several MWA sources allowed the height of the tubes to be determined. They are believed to be, or are related to, "whistler ducts".
Loi had been a student at James Ruse Agricultural High School before studying at the University of Sydney as an undergraduate and member of the American Red Cross Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO).
