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most citedExoClock project II: A large-scale integrated study with 180 updated exoplanet ephemerides

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18 papers

astro-ph.SR2023★ 26 cited

The Evolution of the 1/f Range Within a Single Fast-Solar-Wind Stream Between 17.4 and 45.7 Solar Radii

Nooshin Davis, B. D. G. Chandran, T. A. Bowen +7

The power spectrum of magnetic-field fluctuations in the fast solar wind ($V_{\rm SW}> 500 \mbox{ km} \mbox{ s}^{-1}$) at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scales is characterized by two d…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 35 cited

New Observations of Solar Wind 1/f Turbulence Spectrum from Parker Solar Probe

Zesen Huang, Nikos Sioulas, Chen Shi +22

The trace magnetic power spectrum in the solar wind is known to be characterized by a double power law at scales much larger than the proton gyro-radius, with flatter spectral expo…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Dispersive and kinetic effects on kinked Alfvén wave packets: a comparative study with fluid and hybrid models

Anna Tenerani, Carlos González, Nikos Sioulas +2

We investigate dispersive and kinetic effects on the evolution of a two-dimensional kinked Alfvén wave packet by comparing results from MHD, Hall-MHD and hybrid simulations of a lo…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 23 cited

Proton and electron temperatures in the solar wind and their correlations with the solar wind speed

Chen Shi, Marco Velli, Roberto Lionello +8

The heating and acceleration of the solar wind remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in heliophysics. It is usually observed that the proton temperature is highly…

physics.space-ph2023★ 25 cited

On the evolution of the Anisotropic Scaling of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere

Nikos Sioulas, Marco Velli, Zesen Huang +19

We analyze a merged Parker Solar Probe () and Solar Orbiter () dataset covering heliocentric distances to investigate…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

Asteroid spin-states of a 4 Gyr collisional family

D. Athanasopoulos, J. Hanus, C. Avdellidou +29

Families of asteroids generated by the collisional fragmentation of a common parent body have been identified using clustering methods of asteroids in their proper orbital element…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 31 cited

Magnetic field spectral evolution in the inner heliosphere

Nikos Sioulas, Zesen Huang, Chen Shi +23

Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter data are used to investigate the radial evolution of magnetic turbulence between au. The spectrum is studied as…

physics.space-ph2022★ 15 cited

Preferential Proton over Electron heating from coherent structures during the first perihelion of Parker Solar Probe

Nikos Sioulas, Chen Shi, Zesen Huang +1

The solar wind undergoes significant heating as it propagates away from the Sun; the exact mechanisms responsible for this heating remain unclear. Using data from the first perihel…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 34 cited

Patches of magnetic switchbacks and their origins

Chen Shi, Olga Panasenco, Marco Velli +18

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has shown that the solar wind in the inner heliosphere is characterized by the quasi omni-presence of magnetic switchbacks ("switchback" hereinafter), loca…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

Conservation of Total Wave Action in the Expanding Solar Wind

Zesen Huang, Chen Shi, Marco Velli +1

The conservation of wave action in moving plasmas has been well-known for over half a century. However, wave action is not conserved when multiple wave modes propagate and coexist…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 29 cited

Magnetic field intermittency in the solar wind: PSP and SolO observations ranging from the Alfven region out to 1 AU

Nikos Sioulas, Zesen Huang, Marco Velli +17

and data are utilized to investigate magnetic field intermittency in the solar wind (SW). Small-scale intermittency is observed to radially strengthen…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 27 cited

Statistical analysis of intermittency and its association with proton heating in the near Sun environment

Nikos Sioulas, Marco Velli, Rohit Chhiber +9

We use data from the first six encounters of Parker Solar Probe and employ the Partial Variance of Increments () method to study the statistical properties of coherent structu…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 56 cited

ExoClock project II: A large-scale integrated study with 180 updated exoplanet ephemerides

A. Kokori, A. Tsiaras, B. Edwards +102

The ExoClock project is an inclusive, integrated, and interactive platform that was developed to monitor the ephemerides of the Ariel targets to increase the mission efficiency. Th…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 56 cited

Evolution of switchbacks in the inner Heliosphere

Anna Tenerani, Nikos Sioulas, Lorenzo Matteini +3

We analyze magnetic field data from the first six encounters of PSP, three Helios fast streams and two Ulysses south polar passes covering heliocentric distances $0.1\lesssim R\les…

astro-ph.SR2021

Are Nanoflares Responsible for Coronal Heating?

Loukas Vlahos, Heinz Isliker, Nikos Sioulas

Parker (1983) suggested a mechanism for the formation of current sheets (CSs) in the solar atmosphere. His main idea was that the tangling of coronal magnetic field lines by photos…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Particle heating and acceleration by reconnecting and non-reconnecting Current Sheets

Nikos Sioulas, Heinz Isliker, Loukas Vlahos

In this article, we study the physics of charged particle energization inside a strongly turbulent plasma, where current sheets naturally appear in evolving large-scale magnetic to…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Stochastic Turbulent Acceleration in a fractal environment

Nikos Sioulas, Heinz Isliker, Loukas Vlahos

We analyze the stochastic acceleration of particles inside a fully developed turbulent plasma. It is well known that large-amplitude magnetic fluctuations and coherent structures i…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 23 cited

Superdiffusive Stochastic Fermi Acceleration in Space and Energy

Nikos Sioulas, Heinz Isliker, Loukas Vlahos +2

We analyze the transport properties of charged particles (ions and electrons) interacting with randomly formed magnetic scatterers (e.g.\ large scale local ``magnetic fluctuations'…