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20192026
most citedThe Link Between Non-Thermal Velocity and Free Magnetic Energy in Solar Flares

7 citations · 15 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Filter and baffle design for the short-wavelength camera on SOLAR-C EUVST

James McKevitt, Duncan Rust, Berend Winter +10

SOLAR-C, which is scheduled to launch in the late 2020s with the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope (EUVST), will deliver EUV spectroscopy of the solar atm…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Pre-flare and active region plasma flows and structure seen by the short wavelength camera on SOLAR-C/EUVST

James McKevitt, Sarah Matthews, David H. Brooks +20

The mechanisms triggering solar flares and driving coronal heating occur across wide temperature ranges on small spatial scales and short timescales, making them difficult to obser…

astro-ph.SR2026

Full-Disk Spectroscopy of the Solar Corona Across a Solar Cycle with Hinode/EIS

James McKevitt, Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, Peter R. Young

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona evolve with the Sun's magnetic cycle, yet how this variability manifests in the disk-integrated, Sun-as-a-star observables used in st…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Coronal Non-Thermal and Doppler Plasma Flows Driven by Photospheric Flux in 28 Active Regions

James McKevitt, Sarah Matthews, Deborah Baker +5

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and/or the braiding of magnetic field lines are largely thought to be responsible for heating the solar corona, both being mechanisms which are driv…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Non-Eruptive Reconfiguration of a Quiescent Filament After a Nearby Active Region Emergence

James McKevitt, Louise Harra, Gherardo Valori +13

The unpredictability of solar filament eruptions presents major challenges for forecasting space weather, as such eruptions frequently drive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that impa…

astro-ph.IM2025

UK White Paper on Magnetic Reconnection

Alexander J. B. Russell, James A. McLaughlin, Philippa Browning +25

Magnetic reconnection powers explosive releases of magnetic energy, heating and particle acceleration throughout the plasma universe. Knowledge of this universal process is vital t…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Near-continuous tracking of solar active region NOAA 13664 over three solar rotations

I. Kontogiannis, Y. Zhu, K. Barczynski +6

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-po…

astro-ph.SR2024

Searching for evidence of subchromospheric magnetic reconnection on the Sun

D. Baker, L. van Driel-Gesztelyi, A. W. James +13

Within the coronae of stars, abundances of those elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) often differ from their photospheric values. The coronae of the Sun and solar-ty…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

The Link Between Non-Thermal Velocity and Free Magnetic Energy in Solar Flares

James McKevitt, Robert Jarolim, Sarah Matthews +5

The cause of excess spectral line broadening (non-thermal velocity) is not definitively known, but given its rise before and during flaring, the causal processes hold clues to unde…

astro-ph.IM2021

The Arcanum Mission: Scientific Objectives and Instruments for Neptune, Triton and KBOs

James McKevitt, Christina Bornberg, Tom Dixon +18

The Arcanum mission is a proposed L-class spacecraft that highlights the revolutionary approach which can now be taken to future space mission design. Using the case of the SpaceX…

astro-ph.IM2021

Optimisation of a Hydrodynamic SPH-FEM Model for a Bioinspired Aerial-aquatic Spacecraft on Titan

James McKevitt

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, supports a dense atmosphere, numerous bodies of liquid on its surface, and as a richly organic world is a primary focus for understanding the processe…

astro-ph.IM2021

An L-class Multirole Observatory and Science Platform for Neptune

James McKevitt, Sophie Bulla, Tom Dixon +17

A coming resurgence of super heavy-lift launch vehicles has precipitated an immense interest in the future of crewed spaceflight and even future colonisation efforts. While it is t…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

ASTrAEUS: An Aerial-Aquatic Titan Mission Profile

James McKevitt

Key questions surrounding the origin and evolution of Titan and the Saturnian system in which it resides remain following the Cassini-Huygens mission. In-situ measurements performe…

physics.space-ph2019★ 2 cited

Enceladus and Titan: Emerging Worlds of the Solar System (ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper)

Ali Sulaiman, Nicholas Achilleos, Sushil Atreya +20

Some of the major discoveries of the recent Cassini-Huygens mission have put Titan and Enceladus firmly on the Solar System map. The mission has revolutionised our view of Solar Sy…