Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

By year: 2007 2006 2005 2004

2007

Magnetically-dominated jets inside collapsing stars as a model for gamma-ray bursts and supernova explosions,Dmitri A. Uzdensky & Andrew I. MacFadyen, accepted to Physics of Plasmas (to appear in May 2007)

Star-disk coupling by a time varying magnetic field, E.G. Zweibel, K.T. Hole, R.D. Mathieu, ApJ, 649, 879

The weak-field limit of the magnetorotational instability,J.H. Krolik, E.G. Zweibel, ApJ, 644, 651

Does the Milky Way Launch a Large-Scale Wind?,Everett, J.E., Zweibel, E.G., Benjamin, R.A., McCammon, D., Rocks, L., Cox, D.P., & Gallager, J.S. 2007, to appear in a special edition of the journal Astrophysics & Space Science, "Fifth Stromlo Symposium: Jets, Winds, and Disks -from Planets to Quasars, ed. G. Bicknell,

Comparison between experimental measurements and numerical simulations of spheromak formation in SSPX, M. Dopita, C. Lineweaver and R. Sambruna. C. A. Romero Talamas, E. B. Hooper, D. N. Hill, B. I. Cohen, H. S. McLean, R. D. Wood, and J. M. Moller, Innovative Confinement Concepts (Austin, Texas, USA, February 2006); J. Fusion Energy 26, 169 (2007)

Does the Milky Way launch a large-scale wind?, Everett, J.E., Zweibel, E.G., Benjamin, R.A., McCammon, D., Rocks, L.,Cox, D.P., & Gallager, J.S. 2007,to appear in a special edition of the journal Astrophysics & Space Science, "Fifth Stromlo Symposium: Jets, Winds, and Disks from Planets to Quasars, ed. G. Bicknell, M. Dopita, C. Lineweaver & R. Sambruna.

Fast collisionless reconnection in electron-positron plasmas, N. Bessho and A. Bhattacharjee, Physics of Plasmas 14, 056503 (2007)

Numerical measurements of the Spectrum of MHD Turbulence,J. Mason, F. Cattaneo, S. Boldyrev, to be submitted to PRL in May (2007)

Structure and growth rate of magnetic fields in helical turbulence,J. Mason, F. Cattaneo, S. Boldyrev , to be submitted to Astrophys. J Letters in May (2007)

Statistics of Velocity Centroids, Esquivel, A., Lazarian, A., Horibe, S., Cho, J., Ossenkopf, V., & Stutzki, J, MNRAS, submitted (2007)

A Comparative Study of Velocity Statistics of Hydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics,Hall, N., Kowal, G., Lazarian, A. & Cho, J., submitted (2007)

Grain Alignment and Polarized Emission from Magnetized T-Tauri Disks, Cho, J., & Lazarian, A., ApJ, submitted (2007)

Progress in understanding magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space astrophysical plasmas,M. Yamada Phys. Plasmas Vol. 14, 058102, (2007)

Polarization of Dust Emission in Clumpy Molecular Clouds and Cores, Bethell, T., Chepurnov, A., Lazarian, A. & Kim, J, ApJ, in press. (2007)

Radiative Torques: Analytical Model and Basic Properties, Lazarian, A., & Hoang, T, MNRAS, in press, (2007)

Compressible Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: Physics and Stochastic Particle Acceleration, Brunetti, G., & Lazarian, A., MNRAS, in press (2007)

Cascading of Fast-Mode Balanced and Imbalanced Turbulence, Suzuki, T., Lazarian, A., & Beresnyak, A, ApJ, in press. (2007)

Tracing Magnetic Fields with Aligned Grains,Lazarian, A, JQSRT, 106/1-3, 225-256. (2007)

Density Fluctuations in MHD Turbulence: Spectra,Intermittency, and Topology,Kowal, G., Lazarian, A., & Beresnyak, A, ApJ, 658, 423-445, (2007)

Polarization from Aligned Atoms as a Diagnostic of Circumstellar, ActiveGalactic Nuclei, and Interstellar Magnetic Fields. II. Atoms with Hyperfine Structure,Kowal, G., Lazarian, A., & Beresnyak, A, ApJ, 657, 618-640, (2007)

The role of resistivity on line-tied modes in cylindrical geometry, G. L. Delzanno, E. G. Evstatiev, and J. M. Finn submitted to Phys. Plasmas (Mar. 2007)

Line-tied Kink Modes in Cylindrical Equilibria with Magnetic Shear, G. L. Delzanno, E. G. Evstatiev, and J. M. Finn, submitted to Phys. Plasmas (Mar. 2007)

Magnetic Field Eigenmodes Driven by Helical Turbulent Velocities, Leonid Malyshkin & Stanislav Boldyrev, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters (2007)

Fast Collisionless Reconnection Condition and Self-Organization of Solar Coronal Heating, Dmitri A. Uzdensky submitted to Astrophysical Journal, (2007)

Separator reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause under generic northward IMF conditions, Dmitri A. Uzdensky Journal of Geophysical Research 112, A02202, doi: 10.1029/2006JA011877 (2007)

Intermediate nonlinear evolution of a line-tied g-mode" P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, C. Sovinec, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, (Invited Paper at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, October 30-November 3, 2006), Physics of Plasmas 14, 055903 (2007)

Nonlinear ballooning instability in the near-Earth magnetotail: growth, structure, and possible role in substorms, P. Zhu, C. Sovinec, C. Hegna, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, to appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research (2007)

Current sheet formation and non-ideal behavior at three-dimensional magnetic null points, D. I. Pontin, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Galsgaard,to appear in the Physics of Plasmas (2007)

Current sheets at three-dimensional magnetic nulls: effect of compressibility,D. I. Pontin, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Galsgaard, to appear in the Physics of Plasmas, (2007)

X-ray Emission from Magnetically torqued Disks of Oe/Be Stars,Q. Li, J.P. Cassinelli, W.L. Waldron, N. A. Miller, J.C. Brown, Revised and submitted to Astrophysical Journal (2007)

High throughput spectrometer for fast localized Doppler measurements,, D. Craig, D.J. Den Hartog, D.A. Ennis, S. Gangadhara, and D. Holly, Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 013103 (2007)

Spatially resolved measurements of ion heating during impulsive reconnection in the Madison Symmetric Torus, S. Gangadhara, D. Craig, D.A. Ennis, D.J. Den Hartog, G. Fiksel, and S.C. Prager, Physical Review Letters 98, 075001 (2007)

Chair summaries from the 2006 Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) Workshop, D. Craig, R. Goldston, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson, C.R. Sovinec, S. Woodruff, and G. Wurden, Journal of Fusion Energy 26, 3 (2007)

Non-ambipolar Magnetic fluctuation induced particle transport and plasma flow in the MST reversed field pinch, W.Ding et al., to submitted to Physical review Letters, (2007)

The role of resistivity on line-tied modes in cylindrical geometry, G. L. Delzanno, E. G. Evstatiev, and J. M. Finn, submitted to Phys. Plasmas (Mar. 2007)

Line-tied Kink Modes in Cylindrical Equilibria with Magnetic Shear,G. L. Delzanno, E. G. Evstatiev, and J. M. Finn, submitted to Phys. Plasmas (Mar. 2007)

Stability Properties of Magnetic Tower Jets,Nakamura, M., Li, H., & Li, S. 2007, Astrophysical Journal, 656, 721

Production of magnetic energy by macroscopic turbulence in GRB afterglows,L. Sironi & J. Goodman, be submitted to Astrophys. J.

On the two-dimensional magnetic reconnection with nonuniform resistivity, Leonid Malyshkin and Russell Kulsrud , submitted to Physics of Plasmas summer of 2007.

Achieving high flux amplification in a gun-driven flux-core spheromak,E. B. Hooper, D. N. Hill, H. S. McLean, C. A. Romero-Talam‡s, R. D. Wood, Submitted to Nuclear Fusion (2007)

Finite electron Temperature Effects on Interferometric Measurments in Fusion Plasmas, V.V.Mirnov, W.X.Ding, D.L.Brower, M. VanZeeland, and T.Carlstrom, submitted to Physics of Plasmas, May 2007

A Magnetic Dynamo in AGN Disks. I. The Hydrodynamics of Star-Disk Collisions and Keplerian Flow, Pariev, V.I., Colgate, S.A., 2007, Astrophysical Journal, v. 658, pp. 114-128

A Magnetic Dynamo in AGN Disks. II. Magnetic Field Generation, Theories, and Simulations,Pariev, V.I., Colgate, S.A., Finn, J.M., 2007, Astrophysical Journal, v.658, pp. 129 160.

The Hall dynamo effect and nonlinear mode coupling during sawtooth magnetic reconnection, W. X. Ding, D.L. Brower, B.H. Deng, A.F. Almagri, D. Craig, G. Fiksel, V. Mirnov, S.C. Prager, J.S. Sarff and V. Svidzinski, Physics of Plasmas 13, 112306 (2006)

Advances in neutral-beam-based diagnostics on the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch, D.J. Den Hartog, D. Craig, D.A. Ennis, G. Fiksel, S. Gangadhara, D.J. Holly, J.C. Reardon, V.I. Davydenko, A.A. Ivanov, A.A. Lizunov, M.G. O'Mullane, and H.P.Summers, Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F122 (2006)

Modeling fast charge exchange recombination spectroscopy measurements from the Madison Symmetric Torus,S. Gangadhara, D. Craig, D.A. Ennis, and D.J. Den Hartog,Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F109 (2006)

Local measurements of plasma ion dynamics with optical probes, A. Kuritsyn, D. Craig, G. Fiksel, M. Miller, D. Cylinder, and M. Yamada, Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F112 (2006)

Modeling the large scale structures of astrophysical jets in the magnetically dominated limit,H. Li, G. Lapenta, J. M. Finn, S. Li and S. A. Colgate, Astrophys. J. 643, 92 (2006)

Structure of Magnetic Tower Jets in Stratified Atmospheres, Nakamura, M., Li, H., & Li, S. 2006, Astrophysical Journal, 652, 1059

Spectral Energy Transfer and Dissipation of Magnetic Energy from Fluid to Kinetic Scales, Bowers, K., & Li, H. 2007, Phys. Rev. Lett, 98, 03500

CosmoMHD: A Cosmological Magnetohydrodynamics Code, Li, S., Li, H., & Cen, R. 2007, Astrophysical J. Suppl., in press

2006

A new method for analyzing line-tied kink modes in cylindrical geometry,E. Evstatiev, G. L. Delzanno and J. M. Finn Phys. Plasmas 13, 072902 (2006)

Magnetic Reconnection: Null Point, J. M. Finn,Nature Physics 2, 445 (2006)

Two dimensional time resolved measurements of the electron temperature in MST,P. Franz, F. Bonomo, L. Marrelli, P. Martin, P. Pioveson, G. Spizzo, B.E. Chapman, D. Craig,D.J. Den Hartog, J.A. Goetz, R.O'Connell, S.C. Prager, M. Reyfman, and J.S. Sarff, Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F318 (2006)

Development of fast helium emission spectroscopy on MST, J.-W. Ahn, D. Craig, G. Fiksel, D.J. Den Hartog, J.K. Anderson, and M.G. O'Mullane, Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F114 (2006)

Cause of Sudden Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma, S.H. Choi, D. Craig, S.C. Prager, Physical Review Letters 96, 145004 (2006)

Tomographic imaging of resistive mode dynamics in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch, P. Franz, L. Marrelli, P. Piovesan, I. Predebon, F. Bonomo, L. Frassinetti, P. Martin, G. Spizzo, B.E. Chapman, D. Craig, and J.S. Sarff, Physics of Plasmas 13, 012510 (2006)

A Kiloparsec Scale Wind in the Milky Way, Everett, J.E., Zweibel, E.G., Benjamin, R.A., McCammon, D., Rocks, L., Cox, D.P., & Gallager, J.S. To be Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal.

Onset and Saturation of the Kink Instability in a Current-Carrying Line-Tied Plasma, W. F. Bergerson, C. B. Forest, G. Fiksel, D. A. Hannum, R. Kendrick, J. S. Sarff, and S.Stambler Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015004 (2006)

Modeling the large scale structures of astrophysical jets in the magnetically dominated limit, H. Li, G. Lapenta, J. M. Finn, S. Li and S. A. Colgate, Astrophys. J. 643, 92 (2006)

A new method for analyzing line-tied kink modes in cylindrical geometry, E. Evstatiev, G. L. Delzanno and J. M. Finn, Phys. Plasmas 13, 072902 (2006)

Magnetic Reconnection: Null Point, J. M. Finn, Nature Physics 2, 445 (2006)

Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow,W. Liu, J. Goodman, & H. Ji, Phys Rev E, 74, 056302 (2006)

Traveling waves in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow,W. Liu, J. Goodman, & H. Ji, submitted Phys Rev E; astro-ph/0703525.

Reduction of Ekman Circulation within Circular Couette Flow, M. J. Burin, H. Ji, E. Schartman, R. Cutler, P. Heitzenroeder, W. Liu, L. Morris, S. Raftopolous, Exp. Fluids (2006),DOI 10.1007/s00348-006-0132-y.

Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow,W. Liu, J. Goodman, I. Herron, and H. Ji, Phys. Rev. E 74 (2006) 056302.

Experimental study of two-fluid effects on magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma with variable collisionality,M. Yamada, Y. Ren, H. Ji, J. Breslau, S. Gerhardt, R. Kulsrud, and A. Kuritsyn, Physics of Plasmas 13, 052119 (2006)

Coupling between Global Geometry and the Local Hall Effect Leading to Reconnection-Layer Symmetry Breaking, M. Inomoto, S. Gerhardt, M. Yamada, H. Ji, E. Belova, A. Kuritsyn, and Y. Ren, Physical Review Letters 97, 135002 (2006)

Hydrodynamic Turbulence Cannot Transport Angular Momentum Effectively in Astrophysical Disks, H. Ji, M. Burin, E. Schartman, and J. Goodman, Nature 444 (2006) 343.

Equilibrium and stability studies of oblate field-reversed configurations in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment,S. P. Gerhardt, E. Belova, M. Inomoto, M. Yamada, H. Ji, Y. Ren, and A. Kuritsyn,Phys. Plasmas 13, 112508 (2006)

Transport and fluctuations in high temperature spheromak plasmas,H. S. McLean, R. D. Wood, B. I. Cohen, E. B. Hooper, D. N. Hill, J. M. Moller, C. Romero-Talamas, and S. Woodruff, Phys. Plasmas 13, 056105 (2006)

Confinement Studies in High Temperature Spheromak Plasmas,D.N Hill, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, T.A. Casper, B.I. Cohen, E.B. Hooper, L.L. LoDestro, L.D. Pearlstein, and C. Romero-Talamas, submitted to Nuclear Fusion (October, 2006)

Momentum transport from current-driven reconnection in flowing plasmas, F.Ebrahimi, V.V.Mirnov, S.C.Prager, and C.R.Sovinec. Submitted to Physical Review Letters, 2006

Magnetar-Driven Magnetic Tower as a Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Asymmetric Supernovae, Dmitri A. Uzdensky & Andrew I. MacFadyen, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal (2006)

Dynamic Alignment and exact scaling laws in MHD turbulence,S. Boldyrev, J. Mason, F. Cattaneo, submitted to PRL. (2006)

m=1 ideal internal kink modes in a line-tied screw pinch, Yi-Min Huang, Ellen G. Zweibel, and Carl R. Sovinec Physics of Plasmas 13 (9) Art. No. 092102 SEP 2006

Polarization of Absorption Lines as a Diagnostics of Circumstellar,Interstellar, and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields: Fine-Structure Atoms,Yan, H., Lazarian, A, ApJ, 653,1292-1313, (2006)

Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulent Mixing Layers: Equilibrium Cooling Models, Esquivel, A., Bejamin R., Lazarian, A., Cho, J., & Leitner, S., ApJ, 648, 1043-1051, (2006)

Coherence and Intermittency of Electron Density in Small-Scale Interstellar Turbulence, P.W. Terry and K.W. Smith, Astrophys. J., accepted (arXiv:astro-ph/0702177v2)

Physical origin of the quadrupole out-of-plane magnetic field in Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (Hall-MHD) reconnection, Dmitri A. Uzdensky and Russell M. Kulsrud, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 13, 062305 (2006)

Dipole Trapped Spheromak in a Prolate Flux Conserver,M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, J. Fung, M. Chang, J. Horwitz, M. J. Schaffer, J. Leuer, E. V. Belova, Physics of Plasmas 13, 102503 (2006)

Fast, High Resolution Echelle Spectroscopy of a Laboratory Plasma, M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, J. Fung, M. Chang, J. Horwitz, M. J. Schaffer, J. Leuer, E. V. Belova, `` Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 063504 (2006)

Two Fluid Effects on 3D Reconnection in the SSX Experiment with Comparisons to Space Data, M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, and J. Fung, Physics of Plasmas 13, 056503 (2006)

Stellar Explosions by Magnetic Towers, Dmitri A. Uzdensky & Andrew I. MacFadyen, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 647, p. 1192 (2006)

Polarization Intermittency in MHD and its Influence on MHD Turbulent Cascade, Beresnyak, A. & Lazarian, A, Ap JL, 640, L175-L178 (2006)

MHD Turbulent Mixing Layers: Equilibrium Cooling Models, Esquivel, A., Bejamin R., Lazarian, A., Cho, J., & Leitner, S. Ap J, in press (2006)

Damping of MHD Turbulence in Solar Flares, Petrosian, V., Yan, H., & Lazarian, A., ApJ, 644, 603-612, (2006)

Interstellar Cloud Structure: The Statistics of Centroids of Velocities, Ossenkopf, V., Esquivel, A., Lazarian, A., & Stutzki, J. A&A, 452, 223-236, (2006)

Collisionless Damping of Fast MHD Waves in Magneto-rotational Winds, Suzuki, T., Yan, H., Lazarian, A., & Cassinelli, J. Ap J, 640, 1005-1017 (2006)

Particle Acceleration by MHD Turbulence, Cho, J. & Lazarian, A., Ap J, 638, 811-826 (2006)

Grain Alignment by Radiation in Dark Clouds and Cores, Cho, ƒppJ., & Lazarian, A. Ap J, 631, 361-370 (2006)

Enhancement and Suppression of Heat Transfer by MHD Turbulence, Lazarian A., Ap J,, ApJ, L25L28 (2006)

Modification of MHD turbulent cascade by cosmic rays, Lazarian A. & Beresnyak, A., MNRAS, 373, 1195-1202 (2006)

Fluctuations along Velocity Coordinate: Statistics and Effects of Absorption, Lazarian, A. & Pogosyan, D., Ap J, submitted (2006)

Density Fluctuations in MHD Turbulence: Spectra, Intermittency and Topology, Kowal, G., Lazarian, A., Beresnyak, A., submitted

What is a flux tube? On the magnetic field topology of buoyant flux structures, Cattaneo, F., Brummell, N.H. and Cline, K.S., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 365, 727-734 (2006)

Dynamo action in a rotating convective layer, Cattaneo, F. and Hughes, D.W., J. Fluid Mech., 553, 401-418 (2006).

Interaction between dynamos at different scales, Cattaneo, F. and Tobias, S.M., Phys. Fluids, in print (2006).

The α-effect in turbulent convection size matters, Hughes, D.W. and Cattaneo, F., J. Fluid Mech. Submitted (2006).

Turbulent dynamos: the quick and the fast, Tobias, S.M. and Cattaneo, F., J. Fluid Mech. Submitted (2006).

Simulations of Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Couette Flow, W. Liu, J. Goodman, and H. Ji,, Astrophys. J. 643 (2006) 306.

Measurements of the parallel and transverse Spitzer resistivities during collisional magnetic reconnection, A. Kuritsyn, M. Yamada, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji and R. Kulsrud Phys. Plasmas 13 (2006) 055703.

Reduction of Ekman circulation within Taylor-Couette flow, M. J. Burin, H. Ji, E. Schartman, R. Cutler, P. Heitzenroeder, W. Liu, L. Morris, S. Raftopolous, Exp. Fluids (2006), DOI 10.1007/s00348-006-0132-y.

A fully implicit, nonlinear adaptive grid strategy, L. Chacon, G. Lapenta, Journal of Computational Physics, 212, 703-717, 2006.

Modeling the Large Scale Structures of Astrophysical Jets in the Magnetically Dominated Limit, H. Li, G. Lapenta, J.M. Finn, S. Li, S.A. Colgate, Astrophysical Journal, to appear, 2006.

Kinetic Approach to microscopic-macroscopic coupling in space and laboratory plasmas, G. Lapenta, J.U. Brackbill, P. Ricci, Physics of Plasmas, to appear, 2006.

Kinetic Simulations of X-line Propagation in 3D Reconnection, G. Lapenta, D. Krauss-Varban, H. Karimabadi, J.D. Huba, L.I. Rudakov, P. Ricci, Geophysical Research Letters, to appear.

Cost-effectiveness of fully implicit moving mesh adaptation: a practical investigation in 1D,G. Lapenta, L. Chacon, Journal of Computational Physics, to appear.

Predictor-Corrector Preconditioners for Newton-Krylov Solvers, G. Lapenta, J. Ju,, Journal of Computational Physics, submitted.

In Situ Measurement of Thermal Electrons on the SIERRA Nightside Auroral Sounding Rocket; Part I - Instrument Response, E.A. MacDonald, K.A. Lynch, M. Widholm, R. Arnoldy, G. Lapenta, E.M. Klatt, P.M. Kintner, Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted.

Current driven rotating kink mode in a plasma column with a non-line-tied free end, I. Furno, T.P. Intrator, D.D. Ryutov, S. Abbate, T. Madziwa-Nussinov, A. Light, L. Dorf, G. Lapenta Physical Review Letters, submitted.

Computational Modeling of Fully Ionized Plasmas using the Fluid Approximation, D. D. Schnack, D. C. Barnes, D. P. Brennan, C. C. Hegna, E. Held, C. C. Kim, S. E. Kruger, A. Y. Pankin, and C. R. Sovinec, Phys. Plasmas 13 (2006) (to appear)

Terry: Numerical Simulations of Current Generation and Dynamo Excitation in a Mechanically-Forced, Turbulent Flow, R.A. Bayliss, M.D. Nornberg, P.W. Terry, and C.B. Forest, arXiv:physics/0602126v1, submitted to Phys. Rev., 2006.

Turbulent Origin of the Galactic-Center Magnetic Field: Nonthermal Radio Filaments, S. Boldyrev, F. Yusef-Zadeh, Astrophy.J. 637 (2006) L101-L104.

Physical origin of the quadrupole out-of-plane magnetic field in Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (Hall-MHD) reconnection, Dmitri A. Uzdensky and Russell M. Kulsrud, submitted to Physics of Plasmas (2006).

Numerical Study of the Formation, Ion Spin-up, and Nonlinear Stability Properties of Field Reversed Configurations, E. V. Belova, R. C. Davidson, H. Ji, M. Yamada, C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, and M. J. Schaffer, Nuclear Fusion 46, 162 (2006).

A High Throughput Spectrometer for Fast Localized Doppler Measurements, D. Craig, D.J. Den Hartog, D.A. Ennis, S. Gangadhara, D. Holly, in preparation for RSI

Spatially resolved measurements of ion heating during impulsive reconnection in the Madison Symmetric Torus, S. Gangadhara, et al., in preparation for PRL

Cause of Sudden Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma,S.H. Choi, D. Craig, S.C. Prager, Physical Review Letters 96, 145004 (2006).

Tomographic imaging of resistive mode dynamics in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch, P. Franz, L. Marrelli, P. Piovesan, I. Predebon, F. Bonomo, L. Frassinetti, P. Martin, G. Spizzo, B.E. Chapman, D. Craig, and J.S. Sarff, Phys Plasmas 13, 012510 (2006).

Simulations of Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Couette Flow, W. Liu, J. Goodman, and H. Ji, Astrophysical Journal, accepted (2006)

Reduction of Ekman circulation within Taylor-Couette flow, M. J. Burin, H. Ji, E. Schartman, R. Cutler, P. Heitzenroeder, W. Liu, L. Morris, S. Raftopolous, Experiments in Fluids, Apr 2006, pp.1 – 5.

The small magnetic Prandtl number approximation suppresses magnetorotational instability, I. Herron and J. Goodman, Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik ZAMP, 57, 1-8 (2006)

Stellar Explosions by Magnetic Towers, D.A. Uzdensky and A.I. MacFadyen, submitted to Astrophysical Journal, astro-ph/0602419 (2006).

Intermittency and asymmetry in fully developed turbulence, Vainshtein, S. (2006) J. Fluid Mech. 558, 243-252

Dynamic alignment and exact scaling laws in MHD turbulence, Boldyrev, S., Mason, J. and Cattaneo, F. (2006) Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted

Polarization alignment in driven magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Mason, J., Cattaneo, F. and Boldyrev, S. (2006) Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted.

Laboratory Plasma Dynamos, Astrophysical Dynamos, and Magnetic Helicity Evolution, E. Blackman and H. Ji,, in press, MNRAS (2006).

Modeling the Large-Scale Structures of Astrophysical Jets in the Magnetically Dominated Limit, Li, H. et al. Astrophysical Journal, 643, 92 (2006)

Structure of Magnetic Tower Jets, Nakamura, M., Li, H., & Li, S., Ap J, 2006 (submitted)

Stability of Magnetic Tower Jets, Nakamura, M., Li, H., & Li, S., Ap J, 2006 (submitted)

Experimental Measurements of the Transverse and Parallel Spitzer Resistivity During Magnetic Reconnection , A. Kuritsyn, M. Yamada, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, and Y. Ren, Phys. Plasmsa (to appear May 2006)

Symmetry Breaking of a Magnetic Reconnection Layer due to the Hall Effect, Y. M. Inomoto, S. Gerhardt, M. Yamada, H. Ji, E. Belova, A. Kuritsyn, Y. Ren,submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006)

Experimental Study of Two-fluid Effects on Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory Plasma with Variable Collisionality, M. Yamada, Y. Ren, H. Ji, S. Gerhardt, R. Kulsrud, A. Kuritsyn, and J. Breslau, To be published in Phys. Plasmas. (May, 2006)

Dissipation and Spectral Energy Transfer in 3D Force-Free Magnetic Reconnection with Multiple Layers, Bowers, K.J., & Li, H., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006 (submitted)

Polarization alignment in driven magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, J. Mason, F. Cattaneo, and S. Boldyrev, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., astro-ph/002382.

Dynamic alignment and exact scaling laws in MHD turbulence, S. Boldyrev, J. Mason, and F. Cattaneo, submitted to PRL, astro-ph/005233

Spectrum of magnetohydrodnamic turbulence, S. Boldyrev, Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 115002.

Spheromak Formation and Sustainment Studies at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment Using High-speed Imaging and Magnetic Diagnostics, C.A. Romero- Talamás, P.M. Bellan, C. Holcomb, D. N. Hill, Phys. Plasmas 13, 022502 (2006).

A new method for analyzing line-tied kink modes in cylindrical geometry, E. G. Evstatiev, G. L. Delzanno, and J. M. Finn, submitted to Phys. Plasmas (Apr. 2006)

Onset and saturation of the kink instability in a current-carrying line-tied plasma, W.F. Bergerson, C.B. Forest, G. Fiksel, D.A. Hannum, R. Kendrick, J.S. Sarff, S. Stambler, PRL 96, 015004 (2006).

X-ray Emission from Magnetically Torqued Disks of Oe/Be Star sQ. Li, J.P. Cassinelli, W.L. Waldron, N.A. Miller, J.C. Brown (2006) submitted to Ap J,

Numerical Study of the Formation, Ion Spin-up, and Nonlinear Stability Properties of Field Reversed Configurations, E. V. Belova, R. C. Davidson, H. Ji, M. Yamada, C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, and M. J. Schaffer; Nucl. Fusion, 46, 162-170 (2006).

Spectrum of MHD Turbulence, S. Boldyrev, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

Non-Gaussian Radio-Wave Scattering in the Interstellar Medium, S. Boldyrev and A. Konigl; accepted to ApJ.

Two Fluid Effects on 3D Reconnection in the SSX Experiment with Comparisons to Space Data, M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, J. Fung; Physics of Plasmas 13, 056503 (2006)

Turbulent Origin of the Galactic-Center Magnetic Field: Nonthermal Radio Filaments, S. Boldyrev and F. Yusef-Zadeh; ApJ Letters, 637, L101(2006).

Dynamo Action in a Rotating Convective Layer, F. Cattaneo and D.H. Hughes; accepted to J. Fluid Mech.

What is a Flux Tube? On the Magnetic Field Topology of Buoyant Flux Structures, F. Cattaneo, N.H Brummell, and K.S. Cline; Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 365, 727-734 (2006).

Experimental Measurements of the Transverse and Parallel Spitzer Resistivity During Magnetic Reconnection, A. Kuritsyn, M. Yamada, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, and Y. Ren, Phys. Plasmas (to appear May 2006).

Modeling the Large Scale Structures of Astrophysical Jets in the Magnetically Dominated Limit, H. Li, G. Lapenta, J.M. Finn, S. Li, S.A. Colgate; accepted to ApJ.

Interstellar Cloud Structure: The Statistics of Centroids Velocities, V. Ossenkopf, A. Esquivel, A. Lazarian, and J. Stutzki; accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics.

2005

An Electromagnetic Drift Instability in the Lower Hybrid Frequency Range , H. Ji, R. Kulsrud and M. Yamada J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 110, A08212 (2005)

Magnetic-Field generation in helical turbulence, S. Boldyrev, F. Cattaneo, R. Rosner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 255001.

Measurement of parallel and perpendicular Spitzer resistivity during collisional reconnection, A. Kuritsyn, M. Yamada, H. Ji, S. Gerahardt and Y. Ren To be published in Phys. Plasmas, (May 2005)

Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes in a three-dimensional plasma, C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee, Physical Review Letters 95, 245004 (2005).

Anisotropic wave turbulence in electron MHD, S. Galtier and A. Bhattacharjee (Invited paper at the 32^nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics), Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 47, B691 (2005).

Fast, High Resolution Echelle Spectroscopy of a Laboratory Plasma,C. D. Cothran, J. Fung, M. R. Brown, and M. J. Schaffer Review of Scientific Instruments Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 063504 (2006)

An electromagnetic drift instability in the magnetic reconnection experiment and its importance for magnetic reconnection, H. Ji, R.M. Kulsrud, W. Fox, and M. Yamada, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 82301 (2005)

Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma, Y. Ren, M. Yamada, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, and A. Kuritsyn, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 055003 (2005)

Magnetic reconnection during flux conversion in a driven spheromak , E.B. Hooper, T.A. Kopriva, B.I. Cohen, D.N. Hill, et al., Phys. Plasmas 12 , 092503 (2005).

Implementation and Performance of a Particle In Cell Code Written in Java, S. Markidis, G. Lapenta, W.B. VanderHeyden, Z. Budimlic Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 17, 821, 2005.

Effect of a Converging Flow at the Streamer Cusp on the Genesis of the Slow Solar Wind, G. Lapenta, D.A. Knoll, Astrophysical Journal, 624, 1049, 2005.

Simulation of astrophysics jets: collimation and expansion into radio lobes, G. Lapenta, P.P. Kronberg, Astrophysical Journal, 625, 37, 2005.

The new role of the lower hybrid drift instability in magnetic reconnection, P. Ricci, J.U. Brackbill, W. Daughton, G. Lapenta, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 055901, 2005.

Magnetic reconnection with anomalous resistivity in two-and-a-half dimensions. I: Quasi-stationary case, L. Malyshkin, T. Linde, and R.M. Kulsrud, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 031510 (2005)

Role of magnetic reconnection during coalescence of two magnetic flux ropes, I. Furno, T. Intrator, E.W. Hemsing, S.C. Hsu, P. Ricci, G. Lapenta, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 055702, 2005.

Forced Magnetic Reconnection, J. Birn, K. Galsgaard, M. Hesse, M. Hoshino, J. Huba, G. Lapenta, P. L. Pritchett, K. Schindler, L. Yin, J. Buchner, T. Neukirch, E. R. Priest, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L06105, doi:10.1029/2004GL022058, 2005.

Modified Jeans Instability for Dust Grains in a Plasma, G.L. Delzanno, G. Lapenta, Physical Review Letters, 94, 175005, 2005.

Predictor-Corrector Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Method For Cavity Flow, J. Ju, G. Lapenta, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3514, 82, 2005.

Plug and Play approach to Validation and Verification of Particle-based Algorithms, G. Lapenta, S. Markidis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3516, 88, 2005.

Model of bifurcated current sheets in the Earth's magnetotail: equilibrium and stability” E. Camporeale, G. Lapenta, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, A7, A07206, 10.1029/2004JA010779, 2005

Exact Orbital Motion Theory of the Shielding Potential Around an Emitting, Spherical Body, G.L. Delzanno, A. Bruno, G. Sorasio, G. Lapenta, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 062102, 2005.

Collisionless Damping of Fast MHD Waves in Magneto-rotational Winds,T.K. Suzuki, H. Yan, A. Lazarian, and J.P. Cassinelli. (2006) Ap J 640, 2005

Collisionless reconnection in an electron-positron plasma, N. Bessho and A. Bhattacharjee, Physical Review Letters 95, 245001 (2005).

Magnetic field generation in helical turbulence, Boldyrev, S. Cattaneo, F. and Rosner, R. (2005) Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255001-255004.

Magnetic reconnection with anomalous resistivity in two-and-a-half dimensions I: Quasi-stationary case, Malyshkin, L., Linde, T. and Kulsrud, R. (2005) Phys. Plasmas 12(10), 102902, 1-14.

Dynamo-free Plasma in the Reversed-Field Pinch: Advances in Understanding the Reversed-Field Pinch Improved Confinement Mode, J. K. Anderson, J. Adney, A. Almagri, A. Blair, D. L. Brower, M. Cengher, B. E. Chapman, S. Choi, D. Craig, D. R.Demers, D. J. Den Hartog, B. Deng, W. X. Ding, F. Ebrahimi, D. Ennis, G. Fiksel, C. B. Forest, P. Franz, J. Goetz, R. W. Harvey, D. Holly, B. Hudson, M. Kaufman, T. Lovell, L. Marrelli, P.Martin, K. McCollam, V. V. Mirnov, P. Nonn, R. O'Connell, S. Oliva, P. Piovesan, S. C. Prager, I.Predebon, J. S. Sarff, G. Spizzo, V. Svidzinski, M. Thomas, and M. D. Wyman; Phys. Plasmas 12, 056118 (2005)

Magnetic Field Generation in Helical Turbulence, S. Boldyrev, F. Cattaneo, and R. Rosner; Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255001 (2005).

Radio-Wave Propagation in the Non-Gaussian Interstellar Medium, S. Boldyrev and C.R. Gwinn; ApJ, 624 (2005) 213-231.

On the Spectrum of MHD Turbulence, S. Boldyrev, ApJ, 626, L37 (2005).
Grain Alignment by Radiation in Dark Clouds and Cores, J. Cho and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 631, 361-370 (2005).

Basis Function Multifield Bispectral Deconvolution Analysis, D.A. Baver and P.W. Terry; Phys. Plasmas 12, 042303 (2005).

Density Scaling and Anisotropy in Supersonic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, A. Beresnyak, A. Lazarian, and J. Cho; ApJ, 624, L93-L96, (2005).

Generalized Ohms Law in a 3D Reconnection Experiment, C. D. Cothran, M. Landreman, W. H. Matthaeus, and M. R. Brown; Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L03105 (2005).

Fluid and Kinetic Structure of Magnetic Merging in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment, W. H. Matthaeus, C. D. Cothran, M. Landreman, and M. R. Brown; Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23104 (2005).

Velocity Centroids as Tracers of the Turbulent Velocity Statistics, A. Esquivel and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 631, 320-350 (2005).

Observation of Weak Impact of a Stochastic Magnetic Field on Fast-Ion Confinement, G. Fiksel, B. Hudson, D. Den Hartog, R. Magee, R. O’Connell, S.C. Prager, A.D. Beklemishev, V. I. Davydenko, A. A. Ivanaov. Yu. A. Tsidulko; Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 125001 (2005).

Hyper-Resistivity Due to Viscous Tearing Mode Turbulence, J.M. Finn; Phys. Plasmas, 12, 092313 (2005).

An Electromagnetic Drift Instability in the MRX and its Importance for Magnetic Reconnection, R. Kulsrud, H. Ji, W. Fox and M. Yamada; Phys. Plasmas, 12, 082301 (2005).

An Obliquely Propagating Electromagnetic Drift Instability in the Lower Hybrid Frequency Range, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, W. Fox and M. Yamada; J. Geophys. Res., 110, A08212 (2005).

Generation of Compressible Modes in MHD Turbulence, A. Lazarian, and J. Cho; Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 19, 127-157 (2005).

Scaling, Intermittency and Decay of MHD Turbulence, A. Lazarian, and J. Cho; Physica Scripta, T116, 32-37 (2005).

Polarization and Structure of Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei, M. Lyutikov, V.I. Pariev, D.C. Gabuzda; Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 360, 869-891 (2005).

Polarization and Energy Content of Parsec-Scale AGN Jets, M. Lyutikov, V.I. Pariev, D.C. Gabuzda; Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 76, pp. 114-117 (2005).

Magnetic Reconnection with Anomalous Resistivity in Two-and-a-half Dimensions I: Quasi Stationary Case, L. Malyshkin, T. Linde, R. Kulsrud; Phys. Plas. 12, 102902 (2005).

Reduced Intermittency in the Magnetic Turbulence of Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas, L. Marrelli, L. Frassinetti, P. Martin, D. Craig, and J.S. Sarff; Phys. Plasmas 12, 030701 (2005).

Limitations of the Hamiltonian Treatment for Colllisionless Astrophysical Accretion Flows, V.I. Pariev, E.G. Blackman; Baltic Astronomy, 14, 265-275 (2005).

Overview of Results in the MST Reversed Field Pinch Experiment, S.C. Prager , J. Adney, A. Almagri , J. Anderson, A. Blair , D.L. Brower , M. Cengher, B.E. Chapman, S. Choi, D. Craig, S. Combs, D.R. Demers, D.J. Den Hartog, B. Deng, W.X. Ding, F. Ebrahimi, D.Ennis, G. Fiksel, R. Fitzpatrick, C. Foust, C.B. Forest, P. Franz, L. Frassinetti, J. Goetz, D.Holly, B. Hudson, M. Kaufman, T. Lovell, L. Marrelli , P. Martin, K. McCollam , V.V. Mirnov, P. Nonn, R. O’Connell, S. Oliva, P. Piovesan, I. Predebon, J.S. Sarff, G. Spizzo, V. Svidzinski, M.Thomas, E Uchimoto, R. White, M. Wyman; Nucl. Fusion 45, No 10 (2005).

Magnetically Limited X-Ray Filaments in Young SNR, M. Pohl, H. Yan, and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 626, L101-L104 (2005).

Experimental Verification of the Hall Effects During Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma, Y. Ren, M. Yamada, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji, R Kulsrud, A. Kuritsyn; Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 055003 (2005).

Magnetic Flux Captured by an Accretion Disk, H. C. Spruit and D. A. Uzdensky;
ApJ, 629, 960-968 (2005).

Plasma Instabilities and Magnetic-Field Growth in Clusters of Galaxies, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, R. M. Kulsrud, G. W. Hammett, and P. Sharma; ApJ, 629, 139-142 (2005).

Spurious Contribution to Cosmic Ray Scattering Calculations, A. Shalchi, H. Yan, and A. Lazarian; Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society, 356, 1064-1070, (2005).

2004

Dynamo-free Plasma in the Reversed Field Pinch, J.K. Anderson, T.M. Biewer, C.B. Forest, R.O. O’Connell, S.C. Prager, and J.S. Sarff; Phys. Plasmas, 11, L9 (2004).

Development of Magnetic Field Mapping via Heavy Ion Beam Spectral Imaging, D. R. Demers, K. A. Connor, P. M. Schoch, R. J. Radke, J. K. Anderson, D. Craig, and D. J. Den Hartog; Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 4187 (2004).

Magnetic Field Generation in Kolmogorov Turbulence, S. Boldyrev and F. Cattaneo; Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144501 (2004).

Velocity and Velocity-Difference Distributions in Burgers Turbulence, S. Boldyrev, T. Linde, and A. Polyakov; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184503 (2004).

Fizeau Interferometer for Measurement of Plasma Electron Current, D.L. Brower, W.X. Ding, B.H. Deng, M.A. Mahdavi, V. Mirnov, S.C. Prager; Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 3091 (2004).

The Effect of Rotational Gravity Darkening on Magnetically Torqued Be Star Disks, J.C. Brown, D. Telfer, Q. Li, R. Hanuschick, J. P. Cassinelli, and A. Khotygin; Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 352, 1061 (2004).

Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Star Crusts Due to the Hall Effect and Ohmic Decay, A. Cumming, P. Arras, and E.G. Zweibel; ApJ, 609, 999-1017 (2004).

The Anisotropy of Electron MHD Turbulence, J. Cho and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 615 (2004) L41.

Measurement of the Hall Dynamo Effect During Magnetic Reconnection in a High Temperature Plasma, W.X Ding, D.L. Brower, D. Craig, B.H. Deng, G. Fiksel, V. Mirnov, S.C. Prager, J.S. Sarff, and V. Svidzinski; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(4):045002 (2004).

Wave-Driven Magnetic Reconnection in the Taylor Problem, R. Fitzpatrick, A. Bhattacharjee, Z.-W. Ma, and T. Linde; Phys. Plasmas 10, 4284 (2003).

Turbulent Ambipolar Diffusion: Numerical Studies in 2D, F. Heitsch, E.G. Zweibel, A. Slyz, and J.E.G. Devriendt; ApJ, 603, 165 (2004).

The Hanle Effect as a Diagnostic of Magnetic Fields in Stellar Envelopes IV: Application to Polarized P-Cygni Wind Lines, R. Ignace, K.H. Nordsieck, and J. P. Cassinelli; ApJ, 609, 1018-1034 (2004).

Electromagnetic Fluctuations during Fast Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma, H. Ji, S. Terry, M. Yamada, R. Kulsrud, A. Kuritsyn, and Y. Ren; Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115001 (2004).

Mini-conference and Related Sessions on Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics, H. Ji, M. R. Brown, S. C. Hsu, H. Li, and R. P. Drake; Phys. Plasmas 11, 2976 (2004).

Basic Properties of Compressible MHD Turbulence: Implications for Molecular Clouds, A. Lazarian, J. Cho; ApSS, 292, 29-43 (2004).

Turbulence Statistics from Spectral Line Observations A. Lazarian; Journal of Korean Astronomical Society 37, 563-570 (2004).

Velocity Modification of the Power Spectrum of an Absorbing Medium, A. Lazarian, and D. Pogosyan; ApJ, 616, 943-965 (2004).

Magnetic Field Structure and Stochastic Reconnection in a Partially Ionized Gas, A. Lazarian, E. Vishniac, and J. Cho; ApJ, 603, 180 (2004).

Magnetoelliptic Instabilities, N.R. Lebovitz and E.G. Zweibel; ApJ, 609, 301-312 (2004).

Two-fluid Tearing Instability in Force-free Magnetic Configuration, V.V. Mirnov, C.C. Hegna, S.C. Prager; Phys. Plasmas, 11, 4468 (2004)

Measurements of the MHD Dynamo in the Quasi-Single Helicity Reversed-Field, Pinch, P. Piovesan, D. Craig, L. Marrelli, S. Cappello, and P. Martin; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 235001 (2004).

Effects of Particles with Large Gyroradii on Resistive MHD Stability, V. Svidzinski and S.C. Prager; Phys. Plasmas, 11, 980 (2004).

Inverse Energy Transfer by Near-Resonant Interactions with a Damped-Wave Spectrum, P.W. Terry; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 235004 (2004).

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a Weakly Ionized Medium, C. Watson, E.G. Zweibel, F. Heitsch, and E. Churhwell; ApJ, 608, 274-281 (2004).

Cosmic Ray Scattering and Streaming in Compressible MHD Turbulence, H. Yan and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 614, 757-769 (2004).

Grain Dynamics in Magnetized Compressible Interstellar Medium, H. Yan, A. Lazarian, and B. Draine; ApJ, 616, 895-911 (2004).

The Anisotropy of Electron MHD Turbulence, H. Yan and A. Lazarian; ApJ, 615, L41-L44 (2004).