Publications of Sean Oughton ordered by citations

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Sean Oughton, 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: 0000-0002-2814-7288

362	Anisotropic Scaling of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Horbury, Timothy S., Forman, Miriam & Oughton, Sean, 2008, Physical Review Letters, 101, 175005
337	Coronal Heating by Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Driven by Reflected Low-Frequency Waves Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Mullan, D. J. & Dmitruk, P., 1999, ApJ, 523, L93
297	The influence of a mean magnetic field on three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Oughton, S., Priest, E. R. & Matthaeus, W. H., 1994, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 280, 95
262	Heating of the low-latitude solar wind by dissipation of turbulent magnetic fluctuations Smith, Charles W., Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, Gary P., Ness, Norman F., Oughton, Sean & Richardson, John D., 2001, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 8253
225	MHD-driven Kinetic Dissipation in the Solar Wind and Corona Leamon, R. J., Matthaeus, W. H., Smith, C. W., Zank, G. P., Mullan, D. J. & Oughton, S., 2000, ApJ, 537, 1054
219	Turbulence, Spatial Transport, and Heating of the Solar Wind Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Smith, C. W. & Oughton, S., 1999, Physical Review Letters, 82, 3444
217	Anisotropic three-dimensional MHD turbulence Matthaeus, William H., Ghosh, Sanjoy, Oughton, Sean & Roberts, D. Aaron, 1996, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 7619
198	A Turbulence-Driven Model for Heating and Acceleration of the Fast Wind in Coronal Holes Verdini, A., Velli, M., Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S. & Dmitruk, P., 2010, ApJ, 708, L116
183	Turbulence transport throughout the heliosphere Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Bieber, J. W., Oughton, S., Smith, C. W. & Isenberg, P. A., 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 113, A08105
165	Coronal Heating Distribution Due to Low-Frequency, Wave-driven Turbulence Dmitruk, P., Matthaeus, W. H., Milano, L. J., Oughton, S., Zank, G. P. & Mullan, D. J., 2002, ApJ, 575, 571
161	Phenomenology for the decay of energy-containing eddies in homogeneous MHD turbulence Hossain, Murshed, Gray, Perry C., Pontius, Duane H., Jr., Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, 1995, Physics of Fluids, 7, 2886
157	Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M., Servidio, S., Greco, A., Osman, K. T., Oughton, S. & Dmitruk, P., 2015, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 373, 20140154
153	Relaxation in two dimensions and the ''sinh-Poisson'' equation Montgomery, D., Matthaeus, W. H., Stribling, W. T., Martinez, D. & Oughton, S., 1992, Physics of Fluids A, 4, 3
116	Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean, Pontius, Duane H., Jr. & Zhou, Ye, 1994, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 19267
113	Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M. & Osman, K. T., 2015, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 373, 20140152
102	Selective decay and coherent vortices in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence Matthaeus, William H., Stribling, W. Troy, Martinez, Daniel, Oughton, Sean & Montgomery, David, 1991, Physical Review Letters, 66, 2731
99	Transport of solar wind fluctuations: A two-component model Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Smith, C. W., Breech, B. & Isenberg, P. A., 2011, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 116, A08105
98	Spacecraft observations of solar wind turbulence: an overview Horbury, T. S., Forman, M. A. & Oughton, S., 2005, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 47, B703
97	Electron and proton heating by solar wind turbulence Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Cranmer, S. R., Kasper, J. C. & Oughton, S., 2009, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 114, A09103
93	Decaying, two-dimensional, Navier-Stokes turbulence at very long times Matthaeus, W. H., Stribling, W. T., Martinez, D., Oughton, S. & Montgomery, D., 1991, Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, 51, 531
91	Scaling of Anisotropy in Hydromagnetic Turbulence Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, Sean, Ghosh, Sanjoy & Hossain, Murshed, 1998, Physical Review Letters, 81, 2056
73	Radial evolution of cross helicity in high-latitude solar wind Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Oughton, S., Parhi, S., Bieber, J. W. & Bavassano, B., 2005, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L06103
72	Transport of cross helicity and radial evolution of Alfvénicity in the solar wind Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Breech, B., Parhi, S., Bieber, J. W. & Oughton, S., 2004, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L12803
70	A Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Model of Coronal Heating in Open Magnetic Regions Driven by Reflected Low-Frequency Alfvén Waves Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Dmitruk, P., Milano, L. J., Zank, G. P. & Mullan, D. J., 2001, ApJ, 551, 565
66	von Kármán self-preservation hypothesis for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and its consequences for universality Wan, Minping, Oughton, Sean, Servidio, Sergio & Matthaeus, William H., 2012, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 697, 296
64	A two-component phenomenology for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Oughton, S., Dmitruk, P. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2006, Physics of Plasmas, 13, 042306
60	A Generalized Two-component Model of Solar Wind Turbulence and ab initio Diffusion Mean-Free Paths and Drift Lengthscales of Cosmic Rays Wiengarten, T., Oughton, S., Engelbrecht, N. E., Fichtner, H., Kleimann, J. & Scherer, K., 2016, ApJ, 833, 17
57	Local Anisotropy, Higher Order Statistics, and Turbulence Spectra Matthaeus, W. H., Servidio, S., Dmitruk, P., Carbone, V., Oughton, S., Wan, M. & Osman, K. T., 2012, ApJ, 750, 103
55	Scaling of spectral anisotropy with magnetic field strength in decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Ghosh, Sanjoy, 1998, Physics of Plasmas, 5, 4235
55	Critical Balance and the Physics of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2020, ApJ, 897, 37
53	Nonlinear and Linear Timescales near Kinetic Scales in Solar Wind Turbulence Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S., Osman, K. T., Servidio, S., Wan, M., Gary, S. P., Shay, M. A., Valentini, F., Roytershteyn, V., Karimabadi, H. & Chapman, S. C., 2014, ApJ, 790, 155
53	Reduced magnetohydrodynamics and parallel spectral transfer Oughton, S., Dmitruk, P. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2004, Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2214
46	General second-rank correlation tensors for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Oughton, S., Rädler, K. -H. & Matthaeus, W. H., 1997, Physical Review E, 56, 2875
46	The third-order law for increments in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear Wan, M., Servidio, S., Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2009, Physics of Plasmas, 16, 090703
44	On the accuracy of simulations of turbulence Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2010, Physics of Plasmas, 17, 082308
40	Dynamical age of solar wind turbulence in the outer heliosphere Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W. & Oughton, Sean, 1998, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 6495
39	The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with shear: Numerical investigation Wan, M., Servidio, S., Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2010, Physics of Plasmas, 17, 052307
37	Generation of non-Gaussian statistics and coherent structures in ideal magnetohydrodynamics Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2009, Physics of Plasmas, 16, 080703
35	Investigation of Intermittency in Magnetohydrodynamics and Solar Wind Turbulence: Scale-dependent Kurtosis Wan, Minping, Osman, Kareem T., Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, 2012, ApJ, 744, 171
33	Generation of X-points and secondary islands in 2D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Wan, Minping, Matthaeus, William H., Servidio, Sergio & Oughton, Sean, 2013, Physics of Plasmas, 20, 042307
33	Dissipation and Reconnection in Boundary-driven Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics Wan, Minping, Rappazzo, Antonio Franco, Matthaeus, William H., Servidio, Sergio & Oughton, Sean, 2014, ApJ, 797, 63
32	Linear transport of solar wind fluctuations Oughton, Sean & Matthaeus, William H., 1995, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 14783
31	Power Anisotropy in the Magnetic Field Power Spectral Tensor of Solar Wind Turbulence Wicks, R. T., Forman, M. A., Horbury, T. S. & Oughton, S., 2012, ApJ, 746, 103
29	Conditions for sustainment of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by Alfvén waves Dmitruk, P., Matthaeus, W. H., Milano, L. J. & Oughton, S., 2001, Physics of Plasmas, 8, 2377
29	Impact of Hall effect on energy decay in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Matthaeus, W. H., Dmitruk, P., Smith, D., Ghosh, S. & Oughton, S., 2003, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 2104
28	Directional Alignment and Non-Gaussian Statistics in Solar Wind Turbulence Osman, K. T., Wan, M., Matthaeus, W. H., Breech, B. & Oughton, S., 2011, ApJ, 741, 75
28	Anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic spectral transfer in the diffusion approximation Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S. & Zhou, Y., 2009, Physical Review E, 79, 035401
28	Reduced MHD in Astrophysical Applications: Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional? Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H. & Dmitruk, P., 2017, ApJ, 839, 2
24	Direct comparisons of compressible magnetohydrodynamics and reduced magnetohydrodynamics turbulence Dmitruk, Pablo, Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 112304
23	Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere Fraternale, Federico, Adhikari, Laxman, Fichtner, Horst, Kim, Tae K., Kleimann, Jens, Oughton, Sean, Pogorelov, Nikolai V., Roytershteyn, Vadim, Smith, Charles W., Usmanov, Arcadi V., Zank, Gary P. & Zhao, Lingling, 2022, Space Science Reviews, 218, 50
22	Magnetic Field Line Random Walk in Models and Simulations of Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Snodin, A. P., Ruffolo, D., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2013, ApJ, 779, 56
22	On the Origin of Anisotropy in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: The Role of Higher-order Correlations Oughton, Sean, Wan, Minping, Servidio, Sergio & Matthaeus, William H., 2013, ApJ, 768, 10
20	Transport theory and the WKB approximation for interplanetary MHD fluctuations Matthaeus, William H., Zhou, Ye, Zank, G. P. & Oughton, S., 1994, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 23421
17	Complexity and Diffusion of Magnetic Flux Surfaces in Anisotropic Turbulence Servidio, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M., Ruffolo, D., Rappazzo, A. F. & Oughton, S., 2014, ApJ, 785, 56
16	On the Generation of Compressible Mirror-mode Fluctuations in the Inner Heliosheath Fichtner, Horst, Kleimann, Jens, Yoon, Peter H., Scherer, Klaus, Oughton, Sean & Engelbrecht, N. Eugene, 2020, ApJ, 901, 76
16	Strategies for Determining the Cascade Rate in MHD Turbulence: Isotropy, Anisotropy, and Spacecraft Sampling Wang, Yanwen, Chhiber, Rohit, Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Shay, Michael A., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Cuesta, Manuel E., 2022, ApJ, 937, 76
16	Properties of mass-loading shocks 1. Hydrodynamic considerations Zank, G. P. & Oughton, S., 1991, Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 9439
15	Heating of the solar wind with electron and proton effects Breech, Ben, Cranmer, Steven R., Matthaeus, William H., Kasper, Justin C. & Oughton, Sean, 2010, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 214
14	Variance Anisotropy in Kinetic Plasmas Parashar, Tulasi N., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Wan, Minping, 2016, ApJ, 824, 44
14	Evolution of similarity lengths in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean & Wan, Minping, 2019, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876, 5
13	Propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in stellar atmospheres permeated by isothermal winds Verdini, A., Velli, M. & Oughton, S., 2005, A&A, 444, 233
13	Variance anisotropy in compressible 3-D MHD Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, Minping & Parashar, Tulasi, 2016, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 121, 5041
13	The impact of small-scale turbulence on laminar magnetic reconnection Watson, P. G., Oughton, S. & Craig, I. J. D., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 032301
12	Properties of mass-loading shocks 2. Magnetohydrodynamics Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Neubauer, F. M. & Webb, G. M., 1992, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 17051
12	Magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a mean magnetic field Stribling, Troy, Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, 1995, Physics of Plasmas, 2, 1437
11	Fluctuations, Dissipation and Heating in the Corona Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Leamon, R. J., Smith, C. W., Mullan, D. J. & Oughton, S., 1999, Space Science Reviews, 87, 269
9	Nonlocality and the critical Reynolds numbers of the minimum state magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Zhou, Ye & Oughton, Sean, 2011, Physics of Plasmas, 18, 072304
9	What can we infer about the underlying physics from burst distributions observed in an RMHD simulation? Watkins, N. W., Oughton, S. & Freeman, M. P., 2001, Planetary and Space Science, 49, 1233
8	What is the Reynolds Number of the Solar Wind? Wrench, Daniel, Parashar, Tulasi N., Oughton, Sean, de Lange, Kevin & Frean, Marcus, 2024, ApJ, 961, 182
8	A detailed examination of anisotropy and timescales in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Chhiber, Rohit, Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean & Parashar, Tulasi N., 2020, Physics of Plasmas, 27, 062308
7	Mass-loading and parallel magnetized shocks Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Neubauer, F. M. & Webb, G. M., 1991, Geophysical Research Letters, 18, 1809
6	A Three-dimensional Model for the Evolution of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere Kleimann, Jens, Oughton, Sean, Fichtner, Horst & Scherer, Klaus, 2023, ApJ, 953, 133
6	The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., 2010, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 172
4	Solar Wind Turbulent Heating by Interstellar Pickup Protons: 2-Component Model Isenberg, Philip A., Oughton, Sean, Smith, Charles W. & Matthaeus, William H., 2010, Pickup Ions Throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond (Editors: Le Roux, Jakobus, Zank, Gary P., Coates, Andrew J. & Florinski, Vladimir), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1302, p. 180
3	Kinetic helicity and MHD turbulence Oughton, Sean & Prandi, Rossella, 2000, Journal of Plasma Physics, 64, 179
3	Statistical properties of solar wind discontinuities, intermittent turbulence, and rapid emergence of non-Gaussian distributions Greco, A., Matthaeus, W. H., Servidio, S., Dmitruk, P., Wan, M., Oughton, S. & Chuychai, P., 2010, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 202
3	Reply Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean, Pontius, Duane H. & Zhou, Ye, 1995, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 12329
2	Scaling anisotropy of the power in parallel and perpendicular components of the solar wind magnetic field Forman, Miriam A., Wicks, Robert T., Horbury, Timothy S. & Oughton, Sean, 2013, Solar Wind 13 (Editors: Zank, Gary P., Borovsky, Joe, Bruno, Roberto, Cirtain, Jonathan, Cranmer, Steve, Elliott, Heather, Giacalone, Joe, Gonzalez, Walter, Li, Gang, Marsch, Eckart, Moebius, Ebehard, Pogorelov, Nick, Spann, Jim & Verkhoglyadova, Olga), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, p. 167
2	Energy dynamics in linear MHD with ion parallel viscosity Oughton, Sean, 1997, Journal of Plasma Physics, 58, 571
1	Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Capocci, Damiano, Johnson, Perry L., Oughton, Sean, Biferale, Luca & Linkmann, Moritz, 2025, Journal of Plasma Physics, 91, E11
1	New exact Betchov-like relation for the helicity flux in homogeneous turbulence Capocci, Damiano, Johnson, Perry L., Oughton, Sean, Biferale, Luca & Linkmann, Moritz, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 963, R1
1	A Two-component Transport Model for Solar Wind Fluctuations: Waves plus Quasi-2D Turbulence Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W. & Breech, Ben, 2010, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 210
0	Constraining Solar Wind Transport Model Parameters Using Bayesian Analysis Bishop, Mark A., Oughton, Sean, Parashar, Tulasi N. & Perrott, Yvette C., 2025, ApJ, 979, 211
0	Complexity in astroplasmas Chapman, Sandra, Freeman, Mervyn & Oughton, Sean, 2001, Astronomy and Geophysics, 42, 2.22
0	Solar wind fluctuations and the von Kármán-Howarth equations: The role of fourth-order correlations Oughton, Sean, Wan, Minping, Matthaeus, William H. & Servidio, Sergio, 2013, Solar Wind 13 (Editors: Zank, Gary P., Borovsky, Joe, Bruno, Roberto, Cirtain, Jonathan, Cranmer, Steve, Elliott, Heather, Giacalone, Joe, Gonzalez, Walter, Li, Gang, Marsch, Eckart, Moebius, Ebehard, Pogorelov, Nick, Spann, Jim & Verkhoglyadova, Olga), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, p. 251