Publications of David I. Pontin

A list of publications authored or co-authored by David I. Pontin, 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: 0000-0002-1089-9270

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 88 (refereed: 86)
No. of citations: 2582
First author papers: 26 (refereed: 25)

2026

  1. On the complex nature of coronal heating [0]
    Breu, C. A., Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. & De Moortel, I., MNRAS, 545, staf2180
  2. A magnetic avalanche as the central engine powering a solar flare [8]
    Chitta, L. P., Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R., Berghmans, D., Kraaikamp, E., Rodriguez, L., Verbeeck, C., Zhukov, A. N., Krucker, S., Aznar Cuadrado, R., Calchetti, D., Hirzberger, J., Peter, H., Schühle, U., Solanki, S. K., Teriaca, L., Giunta, A. S., Auchère, F., Harra, L. & Müller, D., A&A, 705, A113

2025

  1. Simulations of Structured Upflows from Plumes and Their Connection to the Solar Wind [1]
    Bora, K., Chitta, L. P., Chen, Yajie, Przybylski, D., Pontin, David I. & Panyam, N., ApJ, 994, L56
  2. Generation of Surface Sausage Oscillations of a Current Sheet and Propagating Magnetoacoustic Waves by Impulsive Reconnection [1]
    Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, A. K., Pontin, David I. & Priest, Eric R., ApJ, 989, 222
  3. Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies. III. Gravity, Generalized Inhomogeneous Quasi-linear Partial Differential Equations, Mode Conversion, and Numerical Implementation [1]
    Raboonik, Axel, Pontin, David I. & Tarr, Lucas A., ApJ, 985, 102
  4. Coriolis force acting on near-surface horizontal flows during simulations of flux emergence produces a tilt angle consistent with Joy's law on the Sun [4]
    Roland-Batty, W., Schunker, H., Cameron, R. H., Przybylski, D., Gizon, L. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 700, A28
  5. Localized Heating and Dynamics of the Solar Corona due to a Symbiosis of Waves and Reconnection [4]
    Srivastava, A. K., Mondal, Sripan, Priest, Eric R., Mishra, Sudheer K., Pontin, David I., Kwon, R. Y., Yuan, Ding, Murawski, K. & Asai, Ayumi, ApJ, 984, 36
  6. The Sun's Open─Closed Flux Boundary and the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind [3]
    Wilkins, Chloe P., Pontin, David I., Yeates, Anthony R., Antiochos, Spiro K., Schunker, Hannah & Lamichhane, Bishnu, ApJ, 985, 190

2024

  1. A New Field Line Tracer for the Study of Coronal Magnetic Topologies [6]
    Aslanyan, Valentin, Scott, Roger B., Wilkins, Chloe P., Meyer, Karen A., Pontin, David I. & Yeates, Anthony R., ApJ, 971, 137
  2. Generation and annihilation of three dimensional magnetic nulls in extrapolated solar coronal magnetic field: data-based Implicit Large Eddy simulation [4]
    Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., Physica Scripta, 99, 075017
  3. Exploring the generation and annihilation of three-dimensional nulls through MHD simulations in initially chaotic magnetic field devoid of nulls [3]
    Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit, Pontin, David I. & Kumar, Sanjay, Physics of Plasmas, 31, 074502
  4. 2.5D Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of the Formation and Evolution of Plasmoids in Coronal Current Sheets [8]
    Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, Abhishek K., Pontin, David I., Yuan, Ding & Priest, Eric R., ApJ, 963, 139
  5. Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Generation by Flux Cancellation Reconnection [15]
    Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R., Chitta, L. P. & Titov, V. S., ApJ, 960, 51
  6. Magnetic reconnection [2]
    Pontin, David I., Wyper, Peter F. & Priest, Eric R., Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in Solar Plasmas (Editors: Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar, Goossens, Marcel & Arregui, Inigo), p.345
  7. Heating in the solar atmosphere at a fin current sheet driven by magnetic flux cancellation [3]
    Priest, Eric R. & Pontin, David I., MNRAS, 534, 3133
  8. Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies [11]
    Raboonik, Axel, Tarr, Lucas A. & Pontin, David I., ApJ, 967, 80
  9. Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies. II. Fully Analytical Equations and Pseudoadvective Eigenenergies [3]
    Raboonik, Axel, Pontin, David I. & Tarr, Lucas A., ApJ, 977, 191

2023

  1. Magnetic reconnections as the underlying cause of spontaneous generation and annihilation of three-dimensional magnetic nulls [4]
    Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., Physics of Plasmas, 30, 022901
  2. Reconnection-generated Plasma Flows in the Quasi-separatrix Layer in Localized Solar Corona [9]
    Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, Abhishek K., Mishra, Sudheer K., Sangal, K., Kayshap, Pradeep, Guo, Yang, Pontin, David I., Uritsky, Vadim M., Ofman, Leon, Wang, Tongjiang & Yuan, Ding, ApJ, 953, 84

2022

  1. The Dynamic Structure of Coronal Hole Boundaries [10]
    Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Scott, R. B., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F. & Antiochos, S. K., ApJ, 931, 96
  2. The Dynamic Coupling of Streamers and Pseudostreamers to the Heliosphere [7]
    Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B. & Antiochos, S. K., ApJ, 929, 185
  3. Parallel Plasma Loops and the Energization of the Solar Corona [7]
    Peter, Hardi, Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep, Chen, Feng, Pontin, David I., Winebarger, Amy R., Golub, Leon, Savage, Sabrina L., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Walsh, Robert W. & Warren, Harry P., ApJ, 933, 153
  4. Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling [121]
    Pontin, David I. & Priest, Eric R., Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 19, 1
  5. The Imprint of Intermittent Interchange Reconnection on the Solar Wind [35]
    Wyper, Peter F., DeVore, C. R., Antiochos, S. K., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, Aleida K., Scott, Roger, Masson, Sophie & Pelegrin-Frachon, Theo, ApJ, 941, L29

2021

  1. Effects of Pseudostreamer Boundary Dynamics on Heliospheric Field and Wind [15]
    Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B., Antiochos, S. K. & DeVore, C. R., ApJ, 909, 10
  2. Topological constraints in the reconnection of vortex braids [3]
    Candelaresi, S., Hornig, G., Podger, B. & Pontin, D. I., Physics of Fluids, 33, 056101
  3. Magnetic reconnection and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the solar corona [13]
    Howson, T. A., De Moortel, I. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 656, A112
  4. Spatially Separated Electron and Proton Beams in a Simulated Solar Coronal Jet [12]
    Pallister, Ross, Wyper, Peter F., Pontin, David I., DeVore, C. Richard & Chiti, Federica, ApJ, 923, 163
  5. The Dynamic Formation of Pseudostreamers [12]
    Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Antiochos, Spiro K., DeVore, C. Richard & Wyper, Peter F., ApJ, 913, 64
  6. Is Flare Ribbon Fine Structure Related to Tearing in the Flare Current Sheet? [23]
    Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., ApJ, 920, 102

2020

  1. A comparison of methods for finding magnetic nulls in simulations and in situ observations of space plasmas [8]
    Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Williams, B., Parnell, C. E., Fu, H. S., Liu, Y., Yao, S. & Khotyaintsev, Y. V., A&A, 644, A150
  2. Non-thermal line broadening due to braiding-induced turbulence in solar coronal loops [14]
    Pontin, D. I., Peter, H. & Chitta, L. P., A&A, 639, A21
  3. The Parker problem: existence of smooth force-free fields and coronal heating [28]
    Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 17, 5

2019

  1. SOTE: A Nonlinear Method for Magnetic Topology Reconstruction in Space Plasmas [31]
    Liu, Y. Y., Fu, H. S., Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Liu, C. M., Wang, Z., Chen, G., Dai, L. & Retino, A., ApJS, 244, 31
  2. Reconnection of vortex tubes with axial flow [15]
    McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., Physical Review Fluids, 4, 024701
  3. Proton acceleration at tearing coronal null-point current sheets [5]
    Pallister, R., Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., A&A, 622, A207
  4. Do Current and Magnetic Helicities Have the Same Sign? [12]
    Russell, A. J. B., Demoulin, P., Hornig, G., Pontin, D. I. & Candelaresi, S., ApJ, 884, 55
  5. Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: A Semi-automated Study of S-Web Morphology [16]
    Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Wyper, Peter F., ApJ, 882, 125
  6. On the periodicity of linear and nonlinear oscillatory reconnection [25]
    Thurgood, J. O., Pontin, D. I. & McLaughlin, J. A., A&A, 621, A106

2018

  1. Estimating the Rate of Field Line Braiding in the Solar Corona by Photospheric Flows [9]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R., Bushby, P. J. & Hornig, G., ApJ, 864, 157
  2. Vortex line topology during vortex tube reconnection [15]
    McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., Physical Review Fluids, 3, 054701
  3. Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: Interpretation of S-Web Arcs [25]
    Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Yeates, Anthony R., Wyper, Peter F. & Higginson, Aleida K., ApJ, 869, 60
  4. Resistively-limited current sheet implosions in planar anti-parallel (1D) and null-point containing (2D) magnetic field geometries [7]
    Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., Physics of Plasmas, 25, 072105
  5. Implosive Collapse about Magnetic Null Points: A Quantitative Comparison between 2D and 3D Nulls [13]
    Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., ApJ, 855, 50

2017

  1. Magnetic field line braiding in the solar atmosphere [0]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere (Editors: Vargas Dominguez, S., Kosovichev, A. G., Antolin, P. & Harra, L.), IAU Symposium, 327, p. 77
  2. Quantifying the tangling of trajectories using the topological entropy [8]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., Chaos, 27, 093102
  3. Observable Signatures of Energy Release in Braided Coronal Loops [46]
    Pontin, D. I., Janvier, M., Tiwari, S. K., Galsgaard, K., Winebarger, A. R. & Cirtain, J. W., ApJ, 837, 108
  4. On the Magnetic Squashing Factor and the Lie Transport of Tangents [22]
    Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, ApJ, 848, 117
  5. Three-dimensional Oscillatory Magnetic Reconnection [78]
    Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., ApJ, 844, 2

2016

  1. Effects of Field-line Topology on Energy Propagation in the Corona [6]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., ApJ, 832, 150
  2. Braided magnetic fields: equilibria, relaxation and heating [24]
    Pontin, D. I., Candelaresi, S., Russell, A. J. B. & Hornig, G., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58, 054008
  3. Why Are Flare Ribbons Associated with the Spines of Magnetic Null Points Generically Elongated? [37]
    Pontin, David, Galsgaard, Klaus & Démoulin, Pascal, Solar Physics, 291, 1739

2015

  1. Magnetic Field Relaxation and Current Sheets in an Ideal Plasma [12]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., ApJ, 808, 134
  2. The Structure of Current Layers and Degree of Field-line Braiding in Coronal Loops [27]
    Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., ApJ, 805, 47
  3. The Effect of Reconnection on the Structure of the Sun's Open-Closed Flux Boundary [30]
    Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., ApJ, 805, 39

2014

  1. Mimetic Methods for Lagrangian Relaxation of Magnetic Fields [14]
    Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. & Hornig, G., SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 36, B952
  2. Current Singularities in Line-tied Three-dimensional Magnetic Fields [19]
    Craig, I. J. D. & Pontin, D. I., ApJ, 788, 177
  3. Dynamic topology and flux rope evolution during non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets [51]
    Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., Physics of Plasmas, 21, 102102
  4. Non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets [59]
    Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., Physics of Plasmas, 21, 082114

2013

  1. On the Nature of Reconnection at a Solar Coronal Null Point above a Separatrix Dome [92]
    Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Galsgaard, K., ApJ, 774, 154
  2. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null [15]
    Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., Physics of Plasmas, 20, 032117

2012

  1. Theory of magnetic reconnection in solar and astrophysical plasmas [41]
    Pontin, D. I., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 370, 3169
  2. On the Formation of Current Sheets in Response to the Compression or Expansion of a Potential Magnetic Field [12]
    Pontin, D. I. & Huang, Y.-M., ApJ, 756, 7
  3. Spine-fan reconnection. The influence of temporal and spatial variation in the driver [12]
    Wyper, P. F., Jain, R. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 545, A78

2011

  1. Current accumulation at an asymmetric 3D null point caused by generic shearing motions [35]
    Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 534, A2
  2. Steady state reconnection at a single 3D magnetic null point [35]
    Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 529, A20
  3. The chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with stellar and QSO dust production [79]
    Pipino, A., Fan, X. L., Matteucci, F., Calura, F., Silva, L., Granato, G. & Maiolino, R., A&A, 525, A61
  4. Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection regimes: A review [141]
    Pontin, D. I., Advances in Space Research, 47, 1508
  5. Generalised models for torsional spine and fan magnetic reconnection [44]
    Pontin, D. I., Al-Hachami, A. K. & Galsgaard, K., A&A, 533, A78
  6. Dynamics of braided coronal loops. II. Cascade to multiple small-scale reconnection events [79]
    Pontin, D. I., Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Galsgaard, K., A&A, 525, A57
  7. Heating of braided coronal loops [39]
    Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R. & Hornig, G., A&A, 536, A67

2010

  1. Magnetic reconnection at 3D null points: effect of magnetic field asymmetry [27]
    Al-Hachami, A. K. & Pontin, D. I., A&A, 512, A84
  2. Dynamics of braided coronal loops. I. Onset of magnetic reconnection [68]
    Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., A&A, 516, A5

2009

  1. Dynamics and waves near multiple magnetic null points in reconnection diffusion region [39]
    Deng, X. H., Zhou, M., Li, S. Y., Baumjohann, W., Andre, M., Cornilleau, N., Santolík, O., Pontin, D. I., Reme, H., Lucek, E., Fazakerley, A. N., Decreau, P., Daly, P., Nakamura, R., Tang, R. X., Hu, Y. H., Pang, Y., Büchner, J., Zhao, H., Vaivads, A., Pickett, J. S., Ng, C. S., Lin, X., Fu, S., Yuan, Z. G., Su, Z. W. & Wang, J. F., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 114, A07216
  2. Lagrangian Relaxation Schemes for Calculating Force-free Magnetic Fields, and Their Limitations [22]
    Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G., Wilmot-Smith, A. L. & Craig, I. J. D., ApJ, 700, 1449
  3. Three-dimensional null point reconnection regimes [135]
    Priest, E. R. & Pontin, D. I., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 122101
  4. Magnetic Braiding and Quasi-Separatrix Layers [51]
    Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., ApJ, 704, 1288
  5. Magnetic Braiding and Parallel Electric Fields [55]
    Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., ApJ, 696, 1339

2007

  1. Current sheets at three-dimensional magnetic nulls: Effect of compressibility [27]
    Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052109
  2. Current sheet formation and nonideal behavior at three-dimensional magnetic null points [90]
    Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052106
  3. Current amplification and magnetic reconnection at a three-dimensional null point: Physical characteristics [81]
    Pontin, D. I. & Galsgaard, K., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A03103

2006

  1. Dynamic Three-dimensional Reconnection in a Separator Geometry with Two Null Points [23]
    Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., ApJ, 642, 568

2005

  1. Current singularities at finitely compressible three-dimensional magnetic null points [45]
    Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., Physics of Plasmas, 12, 072112
  2. A fully magnetohydrodynamic simulation of three-dimensional non-null reconnection [38]
    Pontin, D. I., Galsgaard, K., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052307
  3. Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: fan-aligned current [85]
    Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 99, 77

2004

  1. Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: spine-aligned current [63]
    Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 98, 407

2003

  1. A Framework for Understanding the Topology of Complex Coronal Structures [5]
    Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Longcope, D. W., Solar Physics, 212, 319
  2. On the nature of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection [100]
    Priest, E. R., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 108, 1285

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