Publications of David I. Pontin ordered by citations

A list of publications authored or co-authored by David I. Pontin, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations. Publications above the horizontal line count towards the h-index.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-1089-9270

132	Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection regimes: A review Pontin, D. I., 2011, Advances in Space Research, 47, 1508
128	Three-dimensional null point reconnection regimes Priest, E. R. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, Physics of Plasmas, 16, 122101
98	On the nature of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection Priest, E. R., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2003, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 108, 1285
92	Current sheet formation and nonideal behavior at three-dimensional magnetic null points Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052106
86	Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling Pontin, David I. & Priest, Eric R., 2022, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 19, 1
83	Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: fan-aligned current Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2005, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 99, 77
82	On the Nature of Reconnection at a Solar Coronal Null Point above a Separatrix Dome Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Galsgaard, K., 2013, ApJ, 774, 154
80	Current amplification and magnetic reconnection at a three-dimensional null point: Physical characteristics Pontin, D. I. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A03103
79	Dynamics of braided coronal loops. II. Cascade to multiple small-scale reconnection events Pontin, D. I., Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Galsgaard, K., 2011, A&A, 525, A57
76	The chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with stellar and QSO dust production Pipino, A., Fan, X. L., Matteucci, F., Calura, F., Silva, L., Granato, G. & Maiolino, R., 2011, A&A, 525, A61
71	Three-dimensional Oscillatory Magnetic Reconnection Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2017, ApJ, 844, 2
69	Dynamics of braided coronal loops. I. Onset of magnetic reconnection Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2010, A&A, 516, A5
60	Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: spine-aligned current Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2004, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 98, 407
56	Non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 082114
54	Magnetic Braiding and Parallel Electric Fields Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, ApJ, 696, 1339
47	Magnetic Braiding and Quasi-Separatrix Layers Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, ApJ, 704, 1288
46	Dynamic topology and flux rope evolution during non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 102102
46	Current singularities at finitely compressible three-dimensional magnetic null points Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 072112
43	Observable Signatures of Energy Release in Braided Coronal Loops Pontin, D. I., Janvier, M., Tiwari, S. K., Galsgaard, K., Winebarger, A. R. & Cirtain, J. W., 2017, ApJ, 837, 108
41	Generalised models for torsional spine and fan magnetic reconnection Pontin, D. I., Al-Hachami, A. K. & Galsgaard, K., 2011, A&A, 533, A78
39	Heating of braided coronal loops Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R. & Hornig, G., 2011, A&A, 536, A67
38	Theory of magnetic reconnection in solar and astrophysical plasmas Pontin, D. I., 2012, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 370, 3169
37	Dynamics and waves near multiple magnetic null points in reconnection diffusion region Deng, X. H., Zhou, M., Li, S. Y., Baumjohann, W., Andre, M., Cornilleau, N., Santolík, O., Pontin, D. I., Reme, H., Lucek, E., Fazakerley, A. N., Decreau, P., Daly, P., Nakamura, R., Tang, R. X., Hu, Y. H., Pang, Y., Büchner, J., Zhao, H., Vaivads, A., Pickett, J. S., Ng, C. S., Lin, X., Fu, S., Yuan, Z. G., Su, Z. W. & Wang, J. F., 2009, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 114, A07216
36	A fully magnetohydrodynamic simulation of three-dimensional non-null reconnection Pontin, D. I., Galsgaard, K., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052307
35	Steady state reconnection at a single 3D magnetic null point Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., 2011, A&A, 529, A20
33	Current accumulation at an asymmetric 3D null point caused by generic shearing motions Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., 2011, A&A, 534, A2
32	Why Are Flare Ribbons Associated with the Spines of Magnetic Null Points Generically Elongated? Pontin, David, Galsgaard, Klaus & Démoulin, Pascal, 2016, Solar Physics, 291, 1739
29	SOTE: A Nonlinear Method for Magnetic Topology Reconstruction in Space Plasmas Liu, Y. Y., Fu, H. S., Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Liu, C. M., Wang, Z., Chen, G., Dai, L. & Retino, A., 2019, ApJS, 244, 31
28	The Effect of Reconnection on the Structure of the Sun's Open-Closed Flux Boundary Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., 2015, ApJ, 805, 39
28	Current sheets at three-dimensional magnetic nulls: Effect of compressibility Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052109
26	Magnetic reconnection at 3D null points: effect of magnetic field asymmetry Al-Hachami, A. K. & Pontin, D. I., 2010, A&A, 512, A84
26	The Structure of Current Layers and Degree of Field-line Braiding in Coronal Loops Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2015, ApJ, 805, 47
25	The Imprint of Intermittent Interchange Reconnection on the Solar Wind Wyper, Peter F., DeVore, C. R., Antiochos, S. K., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, Aleida K., Scott, Roger, Masson, Sophie & Pelegrin-Frachon, Theo, 2022, ApJ, 941, L29
23	Braided magnetic fields: equilibria, relaxation and heating Pontin, D. I., Candelaresi, S., Russell, A. J. B. & Hornig, G., 2016, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58, 054008
23	Dynamic Three-dimensional Reconnection in a Separator Geometry with Two Null Points Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., 2006, ApJ, 642, 568
22	On the periodicity of linear and nonlinear oscillatory reconnection Thurgood, J. O., Pontin, D. I. & McLaughlin, J. A., 2019, A&A, 621, A106
21	Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: Interpretation of S-Web Arcs Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Yeates, Anthony R., Wyper, Peter F. & Higginson, Aleida K., 2018, ApJ, 869, 60
20	The Parker problem: existence of smooth force-free fields and coronal heating Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, 2020, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 17, 5
20	Lagrangian Relaxation Schemes for Calculating Force-free Magnetic Fields, and Their Limitations Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G., Wilmot-Smith, A. L. & Craig, I. J. D., 2009, ApJ, 700, 1449
19	On the Magnetic Squashing Factor and the Lie Transport of Tangents Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, 2017, ApJ, 848, 117
16	Current Singularities in Line-tied Three-dimensional Magnetic Fields Craig, I. J. D. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, ApJ, 788, 177
15	Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2013, Physics of Plasmas, 20, 032117
14	Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: A Semi-automated Study of S-Web Morphology Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Wyper, Peter F., 2019, ApJ, 882, 125
14	Reconnection of vortex tubes with axial flow McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., 2019, Physical Review Fluids, 4, 024701
14	Is Flare Ribbon Fine Structure Related to Tearing in the Flare Current Sheet? Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, ApJ, 920, 102
14	Vortex line topology during vortex tube reconnection McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., 2018, Physical Review Fluids, 3, 054701
12	Magnetic Field Relaxation and Current Sheets in an Ideal Plasma Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2015, ApJ, 808, 134
12	Effects of Pseudostreamer Boundary Dynamics on Heliospheric Field and Wind Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B., Antiochos, S. K. & DeVore, C. R., 2021, ApJ, 909, 10
12	Magnetic reconnection and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the solar corona Howson, T. A., De Moortel, I. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, A&A, 656, A112
12	Non-thermal line broadening due to braiding-induced turbulence in solar coronal loops Pontin, D. I., Peter, H. & Chitta, L. P., 2020, A&A, 639, A21
12	On the Formation of Current Sheets in Response to the Compression or Expansion of a Potential Magnetic Field Pontin, D. I. & Huang, Y. -M., 2012, ApJ, 756, 7
12	Spine-fan reconnection. The influence of temporal and spatial variation in the driver Wyper, P. F., Jain, R. & Pontin, D. I., 2012, A&A, 545, A78
11	Implosive Collapse about Magnetic Null Points: A Quantitative Comparison between 2D and 3D Nulls Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2018, ApJ, 855, 50
11	Mimetic Methods for Lagrangian Relaxation of Magnetic Fields Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. & Hornig, G., 2014, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 36, B952
10	Do Current and Magnetic Helicities Have the Same Sign? Russell, A. J. B., Demoulin, P., Hornig, G., Pontin, D. I. & Candelaresi, S., 2019, ApJ, 884, 55
10	The Dynamic Formation of Pseudostreamers Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Antiochos, Spiro K., DeVore, C. Richard & Wyper, Peter F., 2021, ApJ, 913, 64
9	Estimating the Rate of Field Line Braiding in the Solar Corona by Photospheric Flows Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R., Bushby, P. J. & Hornig, G., 2018, ApJ, 864, 157
8	A comparison of methods for finding magnetic nulls in simulations and in situ observations of space plasmas Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Williams, B., Parnell, C. E., Fu, H. S., Liu, Y., Yao, S. & Khotyaintsev, Y. V., 2020, A&A, 644, A150
8	Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Generation by Flux Cancellation Reconnection Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R., Chitta, L. P. & Titov, V. S., 2024, ApJ, 960, 51
8	Spatially Separated Electron and Proton Beams in a Simulated Solar Coronal Jet Pallister, Ross, Wyper, Peter F., Pontin, David I., DeVore, C. Richard & Chiti, Federica, 2021, ApJ, 923, 163
7	Parallel Plasma Loops and the Energization of the Solar Corona Peter, Hardi, Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep, Chen, Feng, Pontin, David I., Winebarger, Amy R., Golub, Leon, Savage, Sabrina L., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Walsh, Robert W. & Warren, Harry P., 2022, ApJ, 933, 153
7	Reconnection-generated Plasma Flows in the Quasi-separatrix Layer in Localized Solar Corona Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, Abhishek K., Mishra, Sudheer K., Sangal, K., Kayshap, Pradeep, Guo, Yang, Pontin, David I., Uritsky, Vadim M., Ofman, Leon, Wang, Tongjiang & Yuan, Ding, 2023, ApJ, 953, 84
7	Resistively-limited current sheet implosions in planar anti-parallel (1D) and null-point containing (2D) magnetic field geometries Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2018, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 072105
7	Quantifying the tangling of trajectories using the topological entropy Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2017, Chaos, 27, 093102
6	Effects of Field-line Topology on Energy Propagation in the Corona Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2016, ApJ, 832, 150
5	The Dynamic Coupling of Streamers and Pseudostreamers to the Heliosphere Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B. & Antiochos, S. K., 2022, ApJ, 929, 185
5	A Framework for Understanding the Topology of Complex Coronal Structures Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Longcope, D. W., 2003, Solar Physics, 212, 319
5	Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies Raboonik, Abbas, Tarr, Lucas A. & Pontin, David I., 2024, ApJ, 967, 80
5	Proton acceleration at tearing coronal null-point current sheets Pallister, R., Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., 2019, A&A, 622, A207
4	The Dynamic Structure of Coronal Hole Boundaries Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Scott, R. B., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F. & Antiochos, S. K., 2022, ApJ, 931, 96
3	Topological constraints in the reconnection of vortex braids Candelaresi, S., Hornig, G., Podger, B. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, Physics of Fluids, 33, 056101
2	Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies. II. Fully Analytical Equations and Pseudoadvective Eigenenergies Raboonik, Abbas, Pontin, David I. & Tarr, Lucas A., 2024, ApJ, 977, 191
2	Magnetic reconnections as the underlying cause of spontaneous generation and annihilation of three-dimensional magnetic nulls Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., 2023, Physics of Plasmas, 30, 022901
2	A New Field Line Tracer for the Study of Coronal Magnetic Topologies Aslanyan, Valentin, Scott, Roger B., Wilkins, Chloe P., Meyer, Karen A., Pontin, David I. & Yeates, Anthony R., 2024, ApJ, 971, 137
1	Magnetic reconnection Pontin, David I., Wyper, Peter F. & Priest, Eric R., 2024, Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in Solar Plasmas (Editors: Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar, Goossens, Marcel & Arregui, Inigo), p.345
1	Generation and annihilation of three dimensional magnetic nulls in extrapolated solar coronal magnetic field: data-based Implicit Large Eddy simulation Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., 2024, Physica Scripta, 99, 075017
0	Exploring the generation and annihilation of three-dimensional nulls through MHD simulations in initially chaotic magnetic field devoid of nulls Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit, Pontin, David I. & Kumar, Sanjay, 2024, Physics of Plasmas, 31, 074502
0	Magnetic field line braiding in the solar atmosphere Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2017, Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere (Editors: Vargas Dominguez, S., Kosovichev, A. G., Antolin, P. & Harra, L.), IAU Symposium, 327, p. 77
0	Heating in the solar atmosphere at a fin current sheet driven by magnetic flux cancellation Priest, Eric R. & Pontin, David I., 2024, MNRAS, 534, 3133