Publications of Michael S. F. Kirk ordered by citations

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Michael S. F. Kirk, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-9874-1429

443	The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package SunPy Community, Barnes, Will T., Bobra, Monica G., Christe, Steven D., Freij, Nabil, Hayes, Laura A., Ireland, Jack, Mumford, Stuart, Perez-Suarez, David, Ryan, Daniel F., Shih, Albert Y., Chanda, Prateek, Glogowski, Kolja, Hewett, Russell, Hughitt, V. Keith, Hill, Andrew, Hiware, Kaustubh, Inglis, Andrew, Kirk, Michael S. F., Konge, Sudarshan, Mason, James Paul, Maloney, Shane Anthony, Murray, Sophie A., Panda, Asish, Park, Jongyeob, Pereira, Tiago M. D., Reardon, Kevin, Savage, Sabrina, Sipőcz, Brigitta M., Stansby, David, Jain, Yash, Taylor, Garrison, Yadav, Tannmay, Rajul & Dang, Trung Kien, 2020, ApJ, 890, 68
124	SunPy—Python for solar physics SunPy Community, The, Mumford, Stuart J., Christe, Steven, Pérez-Suárez, David, Ireland, Jack, Shih, Albert Y., Inglis, Andrew R., Liedtke, Simon, Hewett, Russell J., Mayer, Florian, Hughitt, Keith, Freij, Nabil, Meszaros, Tomas, Bennett, Samuel M., Malocha, Michael, Evans, John, Agrawal, Ankit, Leonard, Andrew J., Robitaille, Thomas P., Mampaey, Benjamin, Iván Campos-Rozo, Jose & Kirk, Michael S., 2015, Computational Science and Discovery, 8, 014009
76	Automated detection of EUV Polar Coronal Holes during Solar Cycle 23 Kirk, M. S., Pesnell, W. D., Young, C. A. & Hess Webber, S. A., 2009, Solar Physics, 257, 99
45	SunPy: A Python package for Solar Physics Mumford, Stuart, Freij, Nabil, Christe, Steven, Ireland, Jack, Mayer, Florian, Hughitt, V., Shih, Albert, Ryan, Daniel, Liedtke, Simon, Pérez-Suárez, David, Chakraborty, Pritish, K, Vishnunarayan, Inglis, Andrew, Pattnaik, Punyaslok, Sipőcz, Brigitta, Sharma, Rishabh, Leonard, Andrew, Stansby, David, Hewett, Russell, Hamilton, Alex, Hayes, Laura, Panda, Asish, Earnshaw, Matt, Choudhary, Nitin, Kumar, Ankit, Chanda, Prateek, Haque, Md, Kirk, Michael, Mueller, Michael, Konge, Sudarshan, Srivastava, Rajul, Jain, Yash, Bennett, Samuel, Baruah, Ankit, Barnes, Will, Charlton, Michael, Maloney, Shane, Chorley, Nicky, Himanshu, Modi, Sanskar, Mason, James, Naman, Campos Rozo, Jose Ivan, Manley, Larry, Chatterjee, Agneet, Evans, John, Malocha, Michael, Bobra, Monica, Ghosh, Sourav, Airmansmith, Stańczak, Dominik, De Visscher, Ruben, Verma, Shresth, Agrawal, Ankit, Buddhika, Dumindu, Sharma, Swapnil, Park, Jongyeob, Bates, Matt, Goel, Dhruv, Taylor, Garrison, Cetusic, Goran, Jacob, Inchaurrandieta, Mateo, Dacie, Sally, Dubey, Sanjeev, Sharma, Deepankar, Bray, Erik, Rideout, Jai, Zahniy, Serge, Meszaros, Tomas, Bose, Abhigyan, Chicrala, André, Ankit, Guennou, Chloé, D'Avella, Daniel, Williams, Daniel, Ballew, Jordan, Murphy, Nick, Lodha, Priyank, Robitaille, Thomas, Krishan, Yash, Hill, Andrew, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Mampaey, Benjamin, Wiedemann, Bernhard, Molina, Carlos, Keșkek, Duygu, Habib, Ishtyaq, Letts, Joseph, Bazán, Juanjo, Arbolante, Quinn, Gomillion, Reid, Kothari, Yash, Sharma, Yash, Stevens, Abigail, Price-Whelan, Adrian, Mehrotra, Ambar, Kustov, Arseniy, Stone, Brandon, Dang, Trung, Arias, Emmanuel, Dover, Fionnlagh, Verstringe, Freek, Kumar, Gulshan, Mathur, Harsh, Babuschkin, Igor, Wimbish, Jaylen, Buitrago-Casas, Juan, Krishna, Kalpesh, Hiware, Kaustubh, Mangaonkar, Manas, Mendero, Matthew, Schoentgen, Mickaël, Gyenge, Norbert, Streicher, Ole, Mekala, Rajasekhar, Mishra, Rishabh, Srikanth, Shashank, Jain, Sarthak, Yadav, Tannmay, Wilkinson, Tessa, Pereira, Tiago, Agrawal, Yudhik, Jamescalixto, Yasintoda & Murray, Sophie, 2020, The Journal of Open Source Software, 5, 1832
31	Areas of Polar Coronal Holes from 1996 Through 2010 Hess Webber, S. A., Karna, N., Pesnell, W. D. & Kirk, M. S., 2014, Solar Physics, 289, 4047
27	Statistical Signatures of Nanoflare Activity. I. Monte Carlo Simulations and Parameter-space Exploration Jess, D. B., Dillon, C. J., Kirk, M. S., Reale, F., Mathioudakis, M., Grant, S. D. T., Christian, D. J., Keys, P. H., Krishna Prasad, S. & Houston, S. J., 2019, ApJ, 871, 133
27	SunCET: The Sun Coronal Ejection Tracker Concept Mason, James Paul, Chamberlin, Phillip C., Seaton, Daniel, Burkepile, Joan, Colaninno, Robin, Dissauer, Karin, Eparvier, Francis G., Fan, Yuhong, Gibson, Sarah, Jones, Andrew R., Kay, Christina, Kirk, Michael, Kohnert, Richard, Pesnell, W. Dean, Thompson, Barbara J., Veronig, Astrid M., West, Matthew J., Windt, David & Woods, Thomas N., 2021, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 11, 20
26	The Observational Uncertainty of Coronal Hole Boundaries in Automated Detection Schemes Reiss, Martin A., Muglach, Karin, Möstl, Christian, Arge, Charles N., Bailey, Rachel, Delouille, Véronique, Garton, Tadhg M., Hamada, Amr, Hofmeister, Stefan, Illarionov, Egor, Jarolim, Robert, Kirk, Michael S. F., Kosovichev, Alexander, Krista, Larisza, Lee, Sangwoo, Lowder, Chris, MacNeice, Peter J., Veronig, Astrid & Cospar Iswat Coronal Hole Boundary Working Team, 2021, ApJ, 913, 28
20	Identifying Flux Rope Signatures Using a Deep Neural Network dos Santos, Luiz F. G., Narock, Ayris, Nieves-Chinchilla, Teresa, Nuñez, Marlon & Kirk, Michael, 2020, Solar Physics, 295, 131
17	A Community Data Set for Comparing Automated Coronal Hole Detection Schemes Reiss, Martin A., Muglach, Karin, Mason, Emily, Davies, Emma E., Chakraborty, Shibaji, Delouille, Veronique, Downs, Cooper, Garton, Tadhg M., Grajeda, Jeremy A., Hamada, Amr, Heinemann, Stephan G., Hofmeister, Stefan, Illarionov, Egor, Jarolim, Robert, Krista, Larisza, Lowder, Chris, Verwichte, Erwin, Arge, Charles N., Boucheron, Laura E., Foullon, Claire, Kirk, Michael S., Kosovichev, Alexander, Leisner, Andrew, Möstl, Christian, Turtle, James & Veronig, Astrid, 2024, ApJS, 271, 6
13	Precursors of Magnetic Flux Emergence in the Moat Flows of Active Region AR12673 Attie, R., Kirk, M. S., Thompson, B. J., Muglach, K. & Norton, A. A., 2018, Space Weather, 16, 1143
10	An Automated Algorithm to Distinguish and Characterize Solar Flares and Associated Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings Kirk, M. S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, J., McNamara, B. J. & McAteer, R. T. J., 2013, Solar Physics, 283, 97
9	Properties of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings and Associated Flare Ribbons Kirk, Michael S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, Jason, McAteer, R. T. James & Milligan, Ryan O., 2012, ApJ, 750, 145
7	Quantifying the Consistency and Characterizing the Confidence of Coronal Holes Detected by Active Contours Without Edges (ACWE) Grajeda, Jeremy A., Boucheron, Laura E., Kirk, Michael S., Leisner, Andrew & Arge, C. Nick, 2023, Solar Physics, 298, 133
6	An Analysis of Spikes in Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) Data Young, Peter R., Viall, Nicholeen M., Kirk, Michael S., Mason, Emily I. & Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep, 2021, Solar Physics, 296, 181
5	Relationships Between Sequential Chromospheric Brightening and the Corona Kirk, M. S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, J. & Gilbert, H. R., 2017, Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere (Editors: Vargas Dominguez, S., Kosovichev, A. G., Antolin, P. & Harra, L.), IAU Symposium, 327, p. 117
4	Neural-Based Compression Scheme for Solar Image Data Zafari, Ali, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Grajeda, Jeremy A., Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Boucheron, Laura E., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & da Silva, Daniel E., 2024, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 60, 918
3	The Origin of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings Kirk, M. S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, J. & Gilbert, H. R., 2017, Solar Physics, 292, 72
3	Attention-Based Generative Neural Image Compression on Solar Dynamics Observatory Zafari, Ali, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Da Silva, Daniel & Kirk, Michael S. F., 2022, 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), p. 36
3	Characteristics of Ephemeral Coronal Holes Inglis, A. R., O'Connor, R. E., Pesnell, W. D., Kirk, M. S. & Karna, N., 2019, ApJ, 880, 98
3	Qualities of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings Observed in Hα and UV Images Kirk, Michael S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, Jason & McAteer, R. T. James, 2014, ApJ, 796, 78
2	Sequential Chomospheric Brightening: An Automated Approach to Extracting Physics from Ephemeral Brightening Kirk, M. S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, J., McAteer, R. T. J. & McNamara, B. J., 2012, Second ATST-EAST Meeting: Magnetic Fields from the Photosphere to the Corona. (Editors: Rimmele, T. R., Tritschler, A., Wöger, F., Collados Vera, M., Socas-Navarro, H., Schlichenmaier, R., Carlsson, M., Berger, T., Cadavid, A., Gilbert, P. R., Goode, P. R. & Knölker, M.), Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 463, p. 267
2	Deep Learning for Space Weather Prediction: Bridging the Gap between Heliophysics Data and Theory Dorelli, John C., Bard, Chris, Chen, Thomas Y., Da Silva, Daniel, Guides dos Santos, Luiz Fernando, Ireland, Jack, Kirk, Michael, McGranaghan, Ryan, Narock, Ayris, Nieves-Chinchilla, Teresa, Samara, Marilia, Sarantos, Menelaos, Schuck, Pete & Thompson, Barbara, 2022, arXiv:2212.13328
1	Context-Aware Neural Video Compression on Solar Dynamics Observatory Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Zafari, Ali, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & Da Silva, Daniel, 2023, 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), p. 98
1	Data mining for science of the sun-earth connection as a single system Alzate, Nathalia, Di Matteo, Simone, Morgan, Huw, Seaton, Daniel B., Miralles, Mari Paz, Balmaceda, Laura, Kirk, Michael S., West, Matthew, DeForest, Craig & Vourlidas, Angelos, 2023, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, 1151785
1	Three Solar Irradiance Proxies for Aperture Photoelectron Detections in Top-Hat ESAs Coated With Ebonol-C da Silva, D., Gershman, D., Barrie, A., Elkington, S., Li, X., Kirk, M., Giles, B., Avanov, L., Shuster, J., Paterson, B., Schiff, C. & Chen, L. J., 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 126, e28960
1	Magnetic Field-Constrained Ensemble Image Segmentation of Coronal Holes in Chromospheric Observations Landeros, Jaime A., Kirk, Michael S., Arge, C. Nick, Boucheron, Laura E., Zhang, Jie, Uritsky, Vadim M., Grajeda, Jeremy A. & Dupertuis, Matthew, 2025, Solar Physics, 300, 10
1	Attention-Based Generative Neural Image Compression on Solar Dynamics Observatory Zafari, Ali, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., da Silva, Daniel & Kirk, Michael S. F., 2022, arXiv:2210.06478
0	Multi-spectral Entropy Constrained Neural Compression of Solar Imagery Zafari, Ali, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & da Silva, Daniel, 2023, arXiv:2309.10791
0	Multi-Spectral Entropy Constrained Neural Compression of Solar Imagery Zafari, Ali, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & Da Silva, Daniel, 2023, 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), p. 178
0	Neural-Based Video Compression on Solar Dynamics Observatory Images Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Zafari, Ali, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & da Silva, Daniel E., 2024, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 60, 6685
0	STRIDE-CH: Sub-Transition Region Identification of Ensemble Coronal Holes Landeros, Jaime, Kirk, Michael S., Arge, Charles Nickolos, Boucheron, Laura, Zhang, Jie, Uritsky, Vadim M., Dupertuis, Matthew & Grajeda, Jeremy, 2024, 171288623.31778488
0	Getting Something from Nothing: Polar Coronal Holes in Cycles 22 and 23 Hess Webber, Shea A., Kirk, Michael S. & Pesnell, W. Dean, 2007, From the Sun towards the Earth: A Living With a Star science meeting, p. 38
0	An Update of the Automatic Detection of Polar Coronal Holes in the EUV Hess Webber, Shea A., Karna, Nishu, Pesnell, W. Dean & Kirk, Michael S., 2010, Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Sun-Climate Research, p. 1
0	Solar Polar Coronal Hole Areas Through the Past Solar Minimum Hess Webber, Shea A., Karna, Nishu, Pesnell, W. Dean & Kirk, Michael S., 2011, LWS/SDO Workshop 2011, p. 1
0	A Comparison of Solar Polar Coronal Hole Areas Between Solar Cycles 23 and 24 Hess Webber, Shea A., Karna, Nishu, Pesnell, W. Dean & Kirk, Michael S., 2011, 2nd ATST-EAST Workshop in Solar Physics: Magnetic Fields from the Photosphere to the Corona, p. 1
0	Space Oddities: The Search For Ephemeral Coronal Holes O'Connor, Rachel E., Pesnell, W. Dean, Kirk, Michael S. & Karna, Nishu, 2016, SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun's Complexity (Editors: Pesnell, W. Dean & Thompson, Barbara), p. 9
0	Estimating and Separating Noise from AIA Images Kirk, Michael S., Ireland, Jack, Young, C. Alex & Pesnell, W. Dean, 2016, SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun's Complexity (Editors: Pesnell, W. Dean & Thompson, Barbara), p. 26
0	Dynamic Mapping of Prominence Activity Thompson, Barbara J., Gilbert, Holly R., Kirk, Michael S., Mays, M. Leila., Ofman, Leon, Uritsky, Vadim, Wyper, Peter & Hovis-Afflerbach, Beryl, 2016, SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun's Complexity (Editors: Pesnell, W. Dean & Thompson, Barbara), p. 82
0	Precursors of magnetic flux emergence in the moat flows of active region AR12673 Attie, Raphael, Kirk, Michael, Thompson, Barbara, Muglach, Karin & Norton, Aimee, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 34
0	Driving Scientific Discovery with Machine Learning and AI at the NASA GSFC Center for HelioAnalytics Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. & Sarantos, Menelaos, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 81
0	Extracting Solar Physics from 151 Million EUV Images Kirk, Michael S., Thompson, Barbara, Attie, Raphael, Viall-Kepko, Nicki & Young, Peter, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 88
0	Characteristics of ephemeral coronal holes Inglis, Andrew, O'Connor, Rachel, Pesnell, Dean, Kirk, Michael & Karna, Nishu, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 106
0	Multi-wavelength Observations of Flare-Induced Acoustic Waves Around Active Regions with SDO AIA Monsue, Teresa, Pesnell, W. Dean, Hill, Frank & Kirk, Michael, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 111
0	Power spectrum power-law indices as a diagnostic of coronal heating Ireland, Jack, Viall, Nicholeen, Bradshaw, Stephen & Kirk, Michael, 2018, Catalyzing Solar Connections, p. 119
0	Oscillations and Asymmetries in Polar Coronal Holes Kirk, Michael S. & Pesnell, William Dean, 2018, 2018 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) (Editors: Brousseau, Donna), p. 309.121
0	Tracking Flows and Disturbances in Coronagraph Data Thompson, Barbara J., Attie, Raphael, DeForest, Craig E., Gibson, Sarah E., Hess Webber, Shea A., Inglis, Anfew R., Ireland, Jack, Kirk, Michael S., Kwon, RyunYoung & Viall, Nicholeen M., 2018, 2018 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) (Editors: Brousseau, Donna), p. 309.122
0	Evaluating the WSA Model's Predictive Performance Arge, Charles Nickolos, Henney, Carl J., Shurkin, Kathleen, Kirk, Michael S. & Wallace, Samantha, 2018, 2018 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) (Editors: Brousseau, Donna), p. 414.04
0	Using Deep Learning to Segment Features in Solar EUV Images Kirk, Michael, 2019, 2019 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Machine Learning in High Performance Computing Environments (MLHPC), p. 15
0	Extracting Science from the AIA Trash Pile with Machine Learning Kirk, Michael, 2019, 2019 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Machine Learning in High Performance Computing Environments (MLHPC), p. 43
0	CME Acceleration as a Probe of the Coronal Magnetic Field Mason, James Paul, Chamberlin, Phillip C., Woods, Thomas N., Jones, Andrew, Veronig, Astrid M., Dissauer, Karin, Kirk, Michael & SunCET Team, 2020, arXiv:2009.05625
0	SEARCH: SEgmentation of polAR Coronal Holes Tiwari, Ajay Kumar, Tremblay, Benoit, Hu, Andong, Wolniewicz, Linnea M., Kirk, Michael, Guidoni, Silvina, Smith, Brent, Penn, Matthew & Samanta, Tanmoy, 2021, The 20.5th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS20.5), Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, p. 211
0	Comparing the Sun Watcher Using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing Instrument to the Atmosphere Imaging Assembly Instrument Through Measurements of Polar Coronal Holes Kirk, Michael S. F., Pesnell, W. Dean, Arge, C. Nickolos, West, Matthew J. & Attié, Raphael, 2022, Solar Physics, 297, 42
0	Heliophysics Discovery Tools for the 21st Century: Data Science and Machine Learning Structures and Recommendations for 2020-2050 McGranaghan, R. M., Thompson, B., Camporeale, E., Bortnik, J., Bobra, M., Lapenta, G., Wing, S., Poduval, B., Lotz, S., Murray, S., Kirk, M., Chen, T. Y., Bain, H. M., Riley, P., Tremblay, B., Cheung, M. & Delouille, V., 2022, arXiv:2212.13325
0	The Center for HelioAnalytics Kirk, Michael S., 2022, Proceedings of the 2nd Machine Learning in Heliophysics, p. 9
0	Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches for Detecting Coronal Mass Ejections in Images Thomas, Brian, Alzate, Nathalia & Kirk, Michael, 2022, Third Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), 54, p. 2022n7i131p01
0	An Analysis of Spikes in Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) Data Young, Peter, Viall, Nicholeen, Kirk, Michael, Mason, Emily & Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep, 2022, Third Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), 54, p. 2022n7i406p06
0	The impact of dimensionality reduction of ion counts distributions on preserving moments, with applications to data compression da Silva, D., Bard, C., Dorelli, J., Kirk, M., Thompson, B. & Shuster, J., 2023, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9, 431
0	Science Platforms for Heliophysics Data Analysis Bobra, Monica G., Barnes, Will T., Chen, Thomas Y., Cheung, Mark C. M., Hayes, Laura A., Ireland, Jack, Janvier, Miho, Kirk, Michael S. F., Mason, James P., Mumford, Stuart J. & Wright, Paul J., 2023, arXiv:2301.00878
0	Context-Aware Neural Video Compression on Solar Dynamics Observatory Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Zafari, Ali, Mehta, Piyush M., Nasrabadi, Nasser M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & da Silva, Daniel, 2023, arXiv:2309.10784
0	Incorporating Magnetic-Field Characteristics into EUV-Based Automated Segmentation of Coronal Holes Grajeda, Jeremy A., Boucheron, Laura E., Kirk, Michael S., Leisner, Andrew, Landeros, Jaime A. & Arge, C. Nick, 2025, Solar Physics, 300, 126
0	Diffusion Modeling of the Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field in the Sun's Corona da Silva, Daniel E., Kirk, Michael, Mathews, Nat & Muñoz-Jaramillo, Andrés, 2025, arXiv:2510.01441
0	Spectral and Spatial Graph Learning for Multispectral Solar Image Compression Siwakoti, Prasiddha, Khoshkhahtinat, Atefeh, Mehta, Piyush M., Thompson, Barbara J., Kirk, Michael S. F. & da Silva, Daniel, 2025, arXiv:2512.24463
0	A Curated Database for Discovering Micro-Events Using AIA Data Kirk, Michael, Attie, Raphael & Chakraborty, Srija, 2025, SDO 2025 Science Workshop: A Gathering of the Helio-hive!, p. 172