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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Understanding the saturation of proton-driven Weibel instabilities and implications for astrophysics
   Physics of Plasmas, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 012901, 2007
2. The evolution of magnetic tower jets in the laboratory
   Physics of Plasmas, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 056501, 2007
3. Magnetic Fields in Stellar Jets
   The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 661, no. 2, pp. 910–918, 2007
4. Toward coupling flow driven and magnetically driven dynamos
   New Journal of Physics, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 309–309, 2007
5. Isolated versus common envelope dynamos in planetary nebula progenitors
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 376, no. 2, pp. 599–608, 2007
6. The shock-reprocessing model of electron acceleration in impulsive solar flares
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 379, no. 1, pp. 43–56, 2007
7. Laboratory plasma dynamos, astrophysical dynamos and magnetic helicity evolution
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 369, no. 4, pp. 1837–1848, 2006
8. Low-mass binary-induced outflows from asymptotic giant branch stars
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 060706024215004–???, 2006
9. Active galactic nuclei jet mass loading and truncation by stellar winds
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 371, no. 4, pp. 1717–1721, 2006
10. Planets Rapidly Create Holes in Young Circumstellar Disks
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 640, no. 2, pp. 1110–1114, 2006
11. Protostellar Jet Collisions Reduce the Efficiency of Outflow-Driven Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 646, no. 2, pp. 1059–1069, 2006
12. Astrophysical Explosions Driven by a Rotating, Magnetized, Gravitating Sphere
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 647, no. 1, pp. L45–L48, 2006
13. Outflow-driven Cavities: Numerical Simulations of Intermediaries of Protostellar Turbulence
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 653, no. 1, pp. 416–424, 2006
14. Distinguishing Propagation vs. Launch Physics of Astrophysical Jets and the Role of Experiments
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 307, no. 1-3, pp. 7–10, 2006
15. 3D MHD Simulations of Laboratory Plasma Jets
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 307, no. 1-3, pp. 17–22, 2006
16. Jet Deflection by a Quasi-Steady-State Side Wind in the Laboratory
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 307, no. 1-3, pp. 29–34, 2006
17. Laboratory Modeling of Standing Shocks and Radiatively Cooled Jets with Angular Momentum
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 307, no. 1-3, pp. 51–56, 2006
18. Extracting rotational energy in supernova progenitors: Transient Poynting flux growth vs. turbulent dissipation
    New Astronomy, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 452–464, 2006
19. Planetesimal growth in turbulent discs before the onset of gravitational instability
    New Astronomy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 246–263, 2006
20. Flux modulation from non-axisymmetric structures in accretion discs
    New Astronomy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 43–51, 2005
21. On the meaning and inapplicability of the Zeldovich relations of magnetohydrodynamics
    Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 326, no. 6, pp. 386–392, 2005
22. A HED Laboratory Astrophysics Testbed Comes of Age: JET Deflection via Cross Winds
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 298, no. 1-2, pp. 107–114, 2005
23. Bihelical magnetic relaxation and large scale magnetic field growth
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 12, no. 1, p. 012304, 2005
24. On particle acceleration and trapping by Poynting flux dominated flows
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1925–1947, 2005
25. Production of radiatively cooled hypersonic plasma jets and links to astrophysical jets
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 47, no. 12B, pp. B465–B479, 2005
26. Turbulence Driven by Outflow-blown Cavities in the Molecular Cloud of NGC 1333
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 632, no. 2, pp. 941–955, 2005
27. Magnetic tower outflows from a radial wire array Z-pinch
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 361, no. 1, pp. 97–108, 2005
28. Star-forming accretion flows and the low-luminosity nuclei of giant elliptical galaxies
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 362, no. 3, pp. 983–994, 2005
29. Stochastic Fermi acceleration of subrelativistic electrons and its role in impulsive solar flares
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 354, no. 3, pp. 870–882, 2004
30. How spectral shapes of magnetic energy and magnetic helicity influence their respective decay timescales
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 423–430, 2004
31. Protostellar Disk Dynamos and Hydromagnetic Outflows in Primordial Star Formation
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 603, no. 2, pp. 401–413, 2004
32. Pulsars with Jets May Harbor Dynamically Important Disks
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 601, no. 1, pp. L71–L74, 2004
33. Application of Magnetohydrodynamic Disk Wind Solutions to Planetary and Protoplanetary Nebulae
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 614, no. 2, pp. 737–744, 2004
34. Jet Deflection via Crosswinds: Laboratory Astrophysical Studies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 616, no. 2, pp. 988–997, 2004
35. On the Planet and the Disk of CoKu TAURI/4
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 612, no. 2, pp. L137–L140, 2004
36. Erratum: “A new approach to turbulent transport of a mean scalar” [Phys. Fluids 15, L73 (2003)]
    Physics of Fluids, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 1830, 2004
37. Dynamical magnetic relaxation: A nonlinear magnetically driven dynamo
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 11, no. 6, p. 3264, 2004
38. Coronae & Outflows from Helical Dynamos, Compatibility with the MRI, and Application to Protostellar Disks
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 292, no. 1-4, pp. 395–406, 2004
39. Temperature response of Earth to the annual solar irradiance cycle
    Physics Letters A, vol. 323, no. 3-4, pp. 315–322, 2004
40. Corrigendum to: “Temperature response of Earth to the annual solar irradiance cycle” [Phys. Lett. A 323 (2004) 315]
    Physics Letters A, vol. 325, no. 2, pp. 175–176, 2004
41. How magnetic helicity ejection helps large scale dynamos
    Advances in Space Research, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1835–1844, 2003
42. MHD Models and Laboratory Experiments of Jets
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 287, no. 1-4, pp. 69–74, 2003
43. A new approach to turbulent transport of a mean scalar
    Physics of Fluids, vol. 15, no. 11, p. L73, 2003
44. Understanding helical magnetic dynamo spectra with a non-linear four-scale theory
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 344, no. 3, pp. 707–714, 2003
45. Fuel-Supply–limited Stellar Relaxation Oscillations: Application to Multiple Rings around Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and Planetary Nebulae
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 585, no. 2, pp. 983–992, 2003
46. Doubly Helical Coronal Ejections from Dynamos and Their Role in Sustaining the Solar Cycle
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 584, no. 2, pp. L99–L102, 2003
47. A Compact X-Ray Source and Possible X-Ray Jets within the Planetary Nebula Menzel 3
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 591, no. 1, pp. L37–L40, 2003
48. X-Ray Emission from the Pre-planetary Nebula Henize 3-1475
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 599, no. 2, pp. L87–L90, 2003
49. Laboratory Astrophysics and Collimated Stellar Outflows: The Production of Radiatively Cooled Hypersonic Plasma Jets
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 564, no. 1, pp. 113–119, 2002
50. High-Resolution [ITAL]CHANDRA[/ITAL][ITAL]Chandra[/ITAL] HETGS and [ITAL]ROSSI X-RAY TIMING EXPLORER[/ITAL][ITAL]Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer[/ITAL] Observations of GRS 1915+105: A Hot Disk Atmosphere and Cold Gas Enriched in Iron and Silicon
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 567, no. 2, pp. 1102–1111, 2002
51. Effect of Fractional Kinetic Helicity on Turbulent Magnetic Dynamo Spectra
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 566, no. 1, pp. L41–L44, 2002
52. Dynamical Quenching of the a[TSUP]2[/TSUP] Dynamo
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 572, no. 1, pp. 685–692, 2002
53. Hydrodynamic Interaction of Strong Shocks with Inhomogeneous Media. I. Adiabatic Case
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 576, no. 2, pp. 832–848, 2002
54. Dynamic Nonlinearity in Large-Scale Dynamos with Shear
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 579, no. 1, pp. 359–373, 2002
55. Iron line profiles from black hole accretion discs with spiral velocity structure
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 332, no. 1, pp. L1–L6, 2002
56. How astrophysical mean field dynamos can circumvent existing quenching constraints
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 8, no. 5, p. 2407, 2001
57. Gamma-ray bursts from unstable Poynting-dominated outflows
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 321, no. 2, pp. 177–186, 2001
58. Implications of mean field accretion disc theory for vorticity and magnetic field growth
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 323, no. 2, pp. 497–505, 2001
59. Reprocessed emission line profiles from dense clouds in geometrically thick accretion engines
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 324, no. 1, pp. 257–266, 2001
60. Dynamos in asymptotic-giant-branch stars as the origin of magnetic fields shaping planetary nebulae
    Nature, vol. 409, no. 6819, Article ID 35054008, 2 pages, 2001
61. Magnetohydrodynamic Stellar and Disk Winds: Application to Planetary Nebulae
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 546, no. 1, pp. 288–298, 2001
62. Mean Magnetic Field Generation in Sheared Rotators
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 529, no. 1, pp. 138–145, 2000
63. Constraints on the Magnitude of a in Dynamo Theory
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 534, no. 2, pp. 984–988, 2000
64. Reprocessed emission from warped accretion discs with application to X-ray iron line profiles
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 317, no. 4, pp. 880–892, 2000
65. Coronal activity from dynamos in astrophysical rotators
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 318, no. 3, pp. 724–732, 2000
66. On particle energization in accretion flows
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 302, no. 4, pp. 723–730, 1999
67. Concave accretion discs and X-ray reprocessing
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 306, no. 3, pp. L25–L30, 1999
68. Nonlinear a-Effect in Dynamo Theory
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 513, no. 2, pp. 638–651, 1999
69. Resolution of an Ambiguity in Dynamo Theory and Its Consequences for Back-Reaction Studies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 521, no. 2, pp. 597–601, 1999
70. An Explanation for the Bimodal Duration Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Millisecond Pulsars from Accretion-induced Collapse
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 494, no. 2, pp. L163–L166, 1998
71. In Situ Origin of Large-Scale Galactic Magnetic Fields without Kinetic Helicity?
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 496, no. 1, pp. L17–L20, 1998
72. On Fueling Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Afterglows with Pulsars
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 498, no. 1, pp. L31–L35, 1998
73. Distinguishing Solar Flare Types by Differences in Reconnection Regions
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 484, no. 1, pp. L79–L82, 1997
74. A Vorticity–Magnetic Field Dynamo Instability
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 489, no. 1, pp. L95–L98, 1997
75. Formation of Millisecond Pulsars from Accretion-induced Collapse and Constraints on Pulsar Gamma-Ray Burst Models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 482, no. 1, pp. 383–399, 1997
76. Relativistic Precessing Jets and Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 473, no. 2, pp. L79–L82, 1996
77. Magnetic Field Diagnostic for Sonoluminescence
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 76, no. 9, pp. 1549–1552, 1996
78. Overcoming the Backreaction on Turbulent Motions in the Presence of Magnetic Fields
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 77, no. 13, pp. 2694–2697, 1996
79. Kinematics of relativistic magnetic reconnection
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 494–497, 1994
80. Nonthermal Acceleration from Reconnection Shocks
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 73, no. 23, pp. 3097–3100, 1994
81. Statistically efficient parallel testing of the Friedmann and chronometric flux-redshift predictions in the radio band
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 430, p. 63, 1994
82. On the origin of obscuring tori in the Galactic nucleus and active Galactic nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 432, p. L31, 1994
83. Ohm’s law for a relativistic pair plasma
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 71, no. 21, pp. 3481–3484, 1993