Publications of Romana Ratkiewicz

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Romana Ratkiewicz, 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: 0000-0002-0029-5836

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 65 (refereed: 45)
No. of citations: 1008
First author papers: 36 (refereed: 19)

2023

  1. Influence of the interstellar magnetic field and 11-year cycle of solar activity on the heliopause nose location [0]
    Bladek, Piotr & Ratkiewicz, Romana, A&A, 678, A81

2016

  1. Does the Interstellar Bow Shock Exist around the Heliosphere? [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Kotlarz, Jan, Transactions of the Institute of Aviation No.4 (245), 4, 178
  2. The Local Interstellar Magnetic Field and the IBEX Ribbon [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Strumik, Marek, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 767, p. 012022

2015

  1. Low Ram Pressure of the Solar Wind and the Heliosphere: Comparison of Global Modeling Results with Voyager and IBEX Observations [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Strumik, Marek, Transactions of the Institute of Aviation No.2 (239), 2, 42

2014

  1. Interstellar Magnetic Field in the Nearest Surroundings of the Sun [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Strumik, M., Grygorczuk, J. & Ben-Jaffel, L., Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics: From Coronal Heating to the Edge of the Heliosphere (Editors: Hu, Q. & Zank, G. P.), Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 484, p. 182
  2. Advective Transport of Interstellar Plasma into the Heliosphere across the Reconnecting Heliopause [19]
    Strumik, M., Grzedzielski, S., Czechowski, A., Macek, W. M. & Ratkiewicz, R., ApJ, 782, L7

2013

  1. The Existence and Nature of the Interstellar Bow Shock [26]
    Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, Strumik, M., Ratkiewicz, R. & Grygorczuk, J., ApJ, 779, 130
  2. Small-scale Local Phenomena Related to the Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence in the Proximity of the Heliopause [22]
    Strumik, M., Czechowski, A., Grzedzielski, S., Macek, W. M. & Ratkiewicz, R., ApJ, 773, L23

2012

  1. Uncovering the magnetic environment of our solar system [16]
    Ben-Jaffel, L. & Ratkiewicz, R., A&A, 546, A78
  2. The Effects of Local Interstellar Magnetic Field on Energetic Neutral Atom Sky Maps [34]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Strumik, M. & Grygorczuk, J., ApJ, 756, 3

2011

  1. IBEX Ribbon: What Could it Tell About the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field? [32]
    Grygorczuk, J., Ratkiewicz, R., Strumik, M. & Grzedzielski, S., ApJ, 727, L48
  2. Comparison of Heliospheric Models with Observations of the Voyager and IBEX Spacecraft [22]
    Strumik, M., Ben-Jaffel, L., Ratkiewicz, R. & Grygorczuk, J., ApJ, 741, L6
  3. Alfvén simple waves [7]
    Webb, G. M., Zank, G. P., Burrows, R. H. & Ratkiewicz, R. E., Journal of Plasma Physics, 77, 51

2010

  1. Structure of the heliospheric current sheet from plasma convection in time-dependent heliospheric models [30]
    Czechowski, A., Strumik, M., Grygorczuk, J., Grzedzielski, S., Ratkiewicz, R. & Scherer, K., A&A, 516, A17
  2. Time variations of the 3D heliosphere over a solar cycle [3]
    Grygorczuk, J., Czechowski, A., Ratkiewicz, R. & Strumik, M., Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 695
  3. The SW-LISM Interaction: Modeling and Observations [1]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Grygorczuk, J. & Strumik, M., Pickup Ions Throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond (Editors: Le Roux, Jakobus, Zank, Gary P., Coates, Andrew J. & Florinski, Vladimir), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1302, p. 13
  4. The local interstellar magnetic field predictions from the MHD model and VOYAGERS' data [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Grygorczuk, Jolanta, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 580

2009

  1. The Interstellar Heliopause Probe: Heliospheric Boundary Explorer Mission to the Interstellar Medium [6]
    Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F., McNutt, Ralph & IHP/HEX Team, Earth Moon and Planets, 104, 17

2008

  1. Orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field inferred from Voyagers' positions [38]
    Ratkiewicz, R. & Grygorczuk, J., Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L23105
  2. What Do We Know about the Orientation of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field? [23]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Ben-Jaffel, L. & Grygorczuk, J., Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (Editors: Pogorelov, N. V., Audit, E. & Zank, G. P.), Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 385, p. 189

2007

  1. MHD action principles and wave interactions in non-uniform flows [0]
    Webb, G. M., Zank, G. P., Kaghashvili, E. Kh. & Ratkiewicz, R. E., Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas (Editors: Shaikh, Dastgeer & Zank, Gary P.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 932, p. 400

2006

  1. MHD modeling of the Heliosphere: a critical evaluation of different models [6]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions, 2, 11
  2. The interaction between the heliospheric and interstellar magnetic fields at the heliopause [4]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana, Grygorczuk, Jolanta & Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, Physics of the Inner Heliosheath (Editors: Heerikhuisen, Jacob, Florinski, Vladimir, Zank, Gary P. & Pogorelov, Nikolai V.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 858, p. 27

2005

  1. The Termination Shock and Beyond: MHD Modeling [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana, Grygorczuk, Jolanta & Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, The Physics of Collisionless Shocks: 4th Annual IGPP International Astrophysics Conference (Editors: Li, Gang, Zank, Gary P. & Russell, C. T.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 781, p. 294
  2. Magnetohydrodynamic waves in non-uniform flows II: stress-energy tensors, conservation laws and Lie symmetries [29]
    Webb, G. M., Zank, G. P., Kaghashvili, E. Kh. & Ratkiewicz, R. E., Journal of Plasma Physics, 71, 811
  3. Magnetohydrodynamic waves in non-uniform flows I: a variational approach [22]
    Webb, G. M., Zank, G. P., Kaghashvili, E. Kh. & Ratkiewicz, R. E., Journal of Plasma Physics, 71, 785

2004

  1. Reply to ``Comment on ``On the interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium: Field aligned MHD flow'' by R. Ratkiewicz and G. M. Webb'' by N. V. Pogorelov and T. Matsuda [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Webb, Gary M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 109, A02111
  2. Questions about effects of interplanetary and interstellar magnetic fields on the heliospheric interface [5]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana, Grygorczuk, Jolanta & Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, Physics of the Outer Heliosphere (Editors: Florinski, Vladimir, Pogorelov, Nikolai V. & Zank, Gary P.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 719, p. 93

2003

  1. Interstellar magnetic field effects on the termination shock, heliopause, and bow shock: Aligned MHD flow [7]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & McKenzie, James F., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 108, 1071
  2. Interstellar magnetic field effects on the heliosphere [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana, Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, McKenzie, James F. & Webb, Gary M., Solar Wind Ten (Editors: Velli, Marco, Bruno, Roberto, Malara, Francesco & Bucci, B.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 679, p. 745

2002

  1. Modeling the heliosphere: Influence of the interstellar magnetic field in the presence of LISM neutral hydrogen [12]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A., Müller, H.-R., Zank, G. P. & Webb, G. M., Advances in Space Research, 29, 433
  2. On the interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium: Field aligned MHD flow [7]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Webb, Gary M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 107, 1484
  3. Effects of interstellar magnetic field B and constant flux of neutral H on the heliosphere [15]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 107, 1007

2001

  1. A new diagnosis tool to map the outer heliosphere regions [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R. & Ben-Jaffel, L., The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers (Editors: Scherer, K., Fichtner, Horst, Fahr, Hans Jörg & Marsch, Eckart), p. 285
  2. A new diagnosis tool to map the outer heliosphere regions [0]
    Ratkiewicz, Romana & Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi, Cospar, 11, 285

2000

  1. Far-Ultraviolet Echoes from the Frontier between the Solar Wind and the Local Interstellar Cloud [27]
    Ben-Jaffel, L., Puyoo, O. & Ratkiewicz, R., ApJ, 533, 924
  2. Local interstellar medium and modeling the heliosphere [27]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A. & Spreiter, J. R., Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 25021

1999

  1. Acceleration of the High Speed Solar Wind in Coronal Holes [72]
    Axford, W. I., McKenzie, J. F., Sukhorukova, G. V., Banaszkiewicz, M., Czechowski, A. & Ratkiewicz, R., Space Science Reviews, 87, 25

1998

  1. Heating and acceleration of minor ions in the solar wind [27]
    Czechowski, A., Ratkiewicz, R., McKenzie, J. F. & Axford, W. I., A&A, 335, 303
  2. Effect of varying strength and orientation of local interstellar magnetic field on configuration of exterior heliosphere: 3D MHD simulations [139]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A., Molvik, G. A., Spreiter, J. R., Stahara, S. S., Vinokur, M. & Venkateswaran, S., A&A, 335, 363
  3. Multidimensional simple waves in gas dynamics [12]
    Webb, G. M., Ratkiewicz, R., Brio, M. & Zank, G. P., Journal of Plasma Physics, 59, 417

1997

  1. Generalized sonic points and acceleration of multi-ion solar wind [2]
    Czechowski, A., Ratkiewicz, R., McKenzie, J. F. & Axford, W. I., Advances in Space Research, 20, 43
  2. Heliospheric termination shock motion in response to LISM variations: Spherically symmetric model [3]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A. & Spreiter, J. R., Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 1659

1996

  1. Heliospheric termination shock motion due to fluctuations in the solar wind upstream conditions: Spherically symmetric model [13]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A., Molvik, G. A., Spreiter, J. R. & Stahara, S. S., Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 27483
  2. Global aspects of the motion of the heliospheric termination shock: A gasdynamic spherically symmetric model [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A. & Molvik, G. A., Proceedings of the eigth International solar wind Conference: Solar wind eight (Editors: Winterhalter, D., Gosling, J. T., Habbal, S. R., Kurth, W. S. & Neugebauer, M.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 382, p. 646
  3. Multi-dimensional MHD simple waves [6]
    Webb, G. M., Ratkiewicz, R., Brio, M. & Zank, G. P., Proceedings of the eigth International solar wind Conference: Solar wind eight (Editors: Winterhalter, D., Gosling, J. T., Habbal, S. R., Kurth, W. S. & Neugebauer, M.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 382, p. 335

1995

  1. Global aspects of the motion of the heliospheric termination shock: A gasdynamic model [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Barnes, A. & Molvik, G. A., Solar Wind Eight, p. 108

1994

  1. Characteristics and Riemann invariants for multi-ion plasmas in the presence of Alfvén waves [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Innes, D. E. & McKenzie, J. F., Journal of Plasma Physics, 52, 297
  2. Similarity solutions for synchrotron emission from a supernova blast wave. [8]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Axford, W. I. & McKenzie, J. F., A&A, 291, 935
  3. A stellar-interstellar counterflow configuration with transversal plasma compressibility. [9]
    Scherer, Klaus, Fahr, Hans J. & Ratkiewicz, Roma, A&A, 287, 219

1993

  1. Constraints in modelling the heliospheric interface [6]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Advances in Space Research, 13, 179

1992

  1. MHD modelling of the heliospheric interface [1]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Solar Wind Seven Colloquium (Editors: Marsch, E. & Schwenn, R.), p. 251
  2. An analytical solution for the heliopause boundary and its comparison with numerical solutions [12]
    Ratkiewicz, R., A&A, 255, 383
  3. Global structure of the oncoming local interstellar plasma flow about a simplified heliopause interface [0]
    Stahara, S. S., Ratkiewicz, R. & Spreiter, J. R., Solar Wind Seven Colloquium (Editors: Marsch, E. & Schwenn, R.), p. 277

1990

  1. MHD solar wind - interstellar plasma interaction: 3D formulation by the projected characteristics method and the stability analysis. [1]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Physics of the Outer Heliosphere (Editors: Grzedzielski, S. & Page, D. E.), p. 313
  2. MHD Solar Wind-Interstellar Plasma Interaction: 3D Formulation by the Projected Characteristics Method and the Stability Analysis [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Cospar, 1, 313
  3. Estimates of the fluxes of new-born He ions due to ionization of the interstellar helium gas [14]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Rucinski, D. & Ip, W.-H., A&A, 230, 227

1989

  1. Possible configurations of the heliosphere under the influence of the outer magnetic field [7]
    Banaszkiewicz, M. & Ratkiewicz, R., Advances in Space Research, 9, 251

1988

  1. Magnetohydrodynamic modeling of the 3-dimensional heliopause using the Newtonian approximation. [85]
    Fahr, H. J., Grzedzielski, S. & Ratkiewicz, R., Annales Geophysicae, 6, 337

1986

  1. Plasma Transport across the Heliopause [120]
    Fahr, H. J., Neutsch, W., Grzedzielski, S., Macek, W. & Ratkiewicz-Landowska, R., Space Science Reviews, 43, 329
  2. The heliopause as a pressure equilibrium surface separating two counterflowing magnetized plasmas [16]
    Fahr, H. J., Ratkiewicz-Landowska, R. & Grzedzielski, S., Advances in Space Research, 6, 389

1984

  1. The Rayleigh-Taylor and the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities at the Heliopause [0]
    Ratkiewicz-Landowska, R. & Grzedzielski, S., Artificial Satellites, 4, 29

1982

  1. Asymmetry of the solar wind in a two-shock model of the heliosphere [0]
    Ermakov, M. K., Lebedev, M. G. & Ratkiewicz-Landowska, R., Acta Astronomica, 32, 303

1977

  1. Nonstationary interaction between solar wind and interstellar matter. [0]
    Ratkiewicz, R., Postepy Astronomii Krakow, 25, 257

1975

  1. Asymmetric distant solar wind. [15]
    Grzedzielski, S. & Ratkiewicz, R., Acta Astronomica, 25, 177

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