Robert J. Leamon

Scientific Publications

  1. Magnetic nulls in the outer magnetosphere of Jupiter: Detections by Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft, RJL, Dougherty, M. K., Southwood, D. J., and Haynes, P. L., Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 1829-1935 (1995).

  2. Origin and dynamics of field nulls detected in the Jovian magnetospheres, Southwood, D. J., Dougherty, M. K., RJL, and Haynes, P. L., Advances in Space Research, 16, 177-181 (1995).

  3. Observational constraints on the dynamics of the interplanetary magnetic field dissipation range, RJL, Smith, Charles W., Ness, Norman F., Matthaeus, William H., and Wong, Hung K., Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 4775-4787 (1998).

  4. Contribution of cyclotron-resonant damping to kinetic dissipation of interplanetary turbulence, RJL, Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W., and Wong, Hung K., Astrophysical Journal, 587, L181-L184 (1998).
    • AAS/ApJ Reprint in PDF format.

  5. Characteristics of magnetic fluctuations within coronal mass ejections: The January 1997 event, RJL, Smith, Charles W., and Ness, Norman F., Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 2508-2511 (1998).

  6. Considerations limiting cyclotron-resonant damping of cascading interplanetary turbulence and why the `slab' approximation fails, RJL, Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W., and Wong, Hung K., Proceedings, Solar Wind Nine Conference, AIP, New York, 465-468 (1999).

  7. Dynamics of the dissipation range for solar wind magnetic fluctuations, RJL, Ness, Norman F., Smith, Charles W., and Wong, Hung K., Proceedings, Solar Wind Nine Conference, AIP, New York, 469-472 (1999).

  8. Dissipation range dynamics: Kinetic Alfvén waves and the importance of electron beta, RJL, Smith, Charles W., Ness, Norman F., and Wong, Hung K., Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 22,331-22,344 (1999).

  9. Dissipation of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, Newark (1999).
    • UD thesis in PDF format. (complete; 2.4 MB)

  10. Fluctuations, dissipation and heating in the Corona, Matthaeus, William H., Zank, Gary P., RJL, Smith, Charles W., Mullan, Dermott J., and Oughton, Sean, Space Science Reviews, 87, 269-275 (1999).
    • Kluwer Reprint in PDF format.

  11. MHD-driven kinetic dissipation in the solar wind and corona, RJL, Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W., Zank, Gary P., Mullan, Dermott J., and Oughton, Sean, Astrophysical Journal, 537, 1054-1062 (2000).
    • AAS/ApJ Reprint in PDF format.

  12. Properties of magnetic clouds and geomagnetic storms associated with eruption of coronal sigmoids, RJL, Canfield, Richard C., and Pevtsov, Alexei A., Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 1234-1243 (2002).
    • AGU/JGR Reprint in PDF format.
    • MSU Preprint in PostScript format.

  13. What is the role of the kink instability in eruption of X-ray sigmoids?, RJL, Canfield, Richard C., Blehm, Zachary and Pevtsov, Alexei A., Astrophysical Journal Letters, submitted, (2002).
    • AAS Preprint in PDF format.

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