First-authored, refereed papers of Richard Morton

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of Richard Morton, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-5678-9002

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 28
No. of citations: 1243

2026

  1. Evidence for small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the solar corona [2]
    Morton, R. J., Gao, Y., Tajfirouze, E., Tian, H., Van Doorsselaere, T. & Schad, T. A., Nature Astronomy, 10, 42

2025

  1. Estimating the Poynting Flux of Alfvénic Waves in Polar Coronal Holes across Solar Cycle 24 [5]
    Morton, R. J., Weberg, M. J., Balodhi, N. & McLaughlin, J. A., ApJ, 985, 13
  2. On the Origins of Coronal Alfvénic Waves [7]
    Morton, Richard J. & Soler, Roberto, ApJ, 986, L6
  3. High-frequency Coronal Alfvénic Waves Observed with DKIST/Cryo-NIRSP [13]
    Morton, Richard J., Molnar, Momchil, Cranmer, Steven R. & Schad, Thomas A., ApJ, 982, 104

2023

  1. Alfvénic waves in the inhomogeneous solar atmosphere [43]
    Morton, R. J., Sharma, R., Tajfirouze, E. & Miriyala, H., Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 7, 17
  2. The Fine-scale Structure of Polar Coronal Holes [12]
    Morton, R. J. & Cunningham, R., ApJ, 954, 90

2021

  1. Transverse motions in sunspot super-penumbral fibrils [26]
    Morton, R. J., Mooroogen, K. & Henriques, V. M. J., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 379, 20200183
  2. Weak Damping of Propagating MHD Kink Waves in the Quiescent Corona [26]
    Morton, Richard J., Tiwari, Ajay K., Van Doorsselaere, Tom & McLaughlin, James A., ApJ, 923, 225

2019

  1. A basal contribution from p-modes to the Alfvénic wave flux in the Sun's corona [89]
    Morton, R. J., Weberg, M. J. & McLaughlin, J. A., Nature Astronomy, 3, 223

2016

  1. A Global View of Velocity Fluctuations in the Corona below 1.3 R ☉ with CoMP [88]
    Morton, R. J., Tomczyk, S. & Pinto, R. F., ApJ, 828, 89
  2. Model fitting of kink waves in the solar atmosphere: Gaussian damping and time-dependence [9]
    Morton, R. J. & Mooroogen, K., A&A, 593, A59

2015

  1. Investigating Alfvénic wave propagation in coronal open-field regions [141]
    Morton, R. J., Tomczyk, S. & Pinto, R., Nature Communications, 6, 7813

2014

  1. High-resolution Observations of Active Region Moss and its Dynamics [15]
    Morton, R. J. & McLaughlin, J. A., ApJ, 789, 105
  2. The Generation and Damping of Propagating MHD Kink Waves in the Solar Atmosphere [54]
    Morton, R. J., Verth, G., Hillier, A. & Erdélyi, R., ApJ, 784, 29
  3. Magneto-seismological insights into the penumbral chromosphere and evidence for wave damping in spicules [18]
    Morton, R. J., A&A, 566, A90

2013

  1. Evidence for the Photospheric Excitation of Incompressible Chromospheric Waves [88]
    Morton, R. J., Verth, G., Fedun, V., Shelyag, S. & Erdélyi, R., ApJ, 768, 17
  2. Hi-C and AIA observations of transverse magnetohydrodynamic waves in active regions [49]
    Morton, R. J. & McLaughlin, J. A., A&A, 553, L10

2012

  1. Determination of Sub-resolution Structure of a Jet by Solar Magnetoseismology [30]
    Morton, R. J., Verth, G., McLaughlin, J. A. & Erdélyi, R., ApJ, 744, 5
  2. Chromospheric jets around the edges of sunspots [25]
    Morton, R. J., A&A, 543, A6
  3. Observations of quasi-periodic phenomena associated with a large blowout solar jet [37]
    Morton, R. J., Srivastava, A. K. & Erdélyi, R., A&A, 542, A70
  4. Observations of ubiquitous compressive waves in the Sun's chromosphere [168]
    Morton, Richard J., Verth, Gary, Jess, David B., Kuridze, David, Ruderman, Michael S., Mathioudakis, Mihalis & Erdélyi, Robertus, Nature Communications, 3, 1315

2011

  1. Observations of Sausage Modes in Magnetic Pores [86]
    Morton, R. J., Erdélyi, R., Jess, D. B. & Mathioudakis, M., ApJ, 729, L18
  2. Torsional Alfvén waves: magneto-seismology in static and dynamic coronal plasmas [19]
    Morton, R. J., Ruderman, M. S. & Erdélyi, R., A&A, 534, A27
  3. Kink and fluting modes of stratified coronal magnetic loops with elliptical cross-sections [24]
    Morton, R. J. & Ruderman, M. S., A&A, 527, A53

2010

  1. Application of the theory of damping of kink oscillations by radiative cooling of coronal loop plasma [33]
    Morton, R. J. & Erdélyi, R., A&A, 519, A43
  2. Propagating magneto-hydrodynamic waves in a cooling homogenous coronal plasma [35]
    Morton, R. J., Hood, A. W. & Erdélyi, R., A&A, 512, A23

2009

  1. Transverse Oscillations of a Cooling Coronal Loop [74]
    Morton, R. J. & Erdélyi, R., ApJ, 707, 750
  2. The effect of elliptic shape on the period ratio P1/P2 of emerging coronal loops [27]
    Morton, R. J. & Erdélyi, R., A&A, 502, 315

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