Publications of David I. Pontin ordered by citations

A list of publications authored or co-authored by David I. Pontin, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-1089-9270

141	Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection regimes: A review Pontin, D. I., 2011, Advances in Space Research, 47, 1508
135	Three-dimensional null point reconnection regimes Priest, E. R. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, Physics of Plasmas, 16, 122101
121	Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling Pontin, David I. & Priest, Eric R., 2022, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 19, 1
100	On the nature of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection Priest, E. R., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2003, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 108, 1285
92	On the Nature of Reconnection at a Solar Coronal Null Point above a Separatrix Dome Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Galsgaard, K., 2013, ApJ, 774, 154
90	Current sheet formation and nonideal behavior at three-dimensional magnetic null points Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052106
85	Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: fan-aligned current Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2005, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 99, 77
81	Current amplification and magnetic reconnection at a three-dimensional null point: Physical characteristics Pontin, D. I. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A03103
79	Dynamics of braided coronal loops. II. Cascade to multiple small-scale reconnection events Pontin, D. I., Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Galsgaard, K., 2011, A&A, 525, A57
79	The chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with stellar and QSO dust production Pipino, A., Fan, X. L., Matteucci, F., Calura, F., Silva, L., Granato, G. & Maiolino, R., 2011, A&A, 525, A61
78	Three-dimensional Oscillatory Magnetic Reconnection Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2017, ApJ, 844, 2
68	Dynamics of braided coronal loops. I. Onset of magnetic reconnection Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2010, A&A, 516, A5
63	Kinematic reconnection at a magnetic null point: spine-aligned current Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2004, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 98, 407
59	Non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 082114
55	Magnetic Braiding and Parallel Electric Fields Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, ApJ, 696, 1339
51	Dynamic topology and flux rope evolution during non-linear tearing of 3D null point current sheets Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 102102
51	Magnetic Braiding and Quasi-Separatrix Layers Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Hornig, G. & Pontin, D. I., 2009, ApJ, 704, 1288
46	Observable Signatures of Energy Release in Braided Coronal Loops Pontin, D. I., Janvier, M., Tiwari, S. K., Galsgaard, K., Winebarger, A. R. & Cirtain, J. W., 2017, ApJ, 837, 108
45	Current singularities at finitely compressible three-dimensional magnetic null points Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 072112
44	Generalised models for torsional spine and fan magnetic reconnection Pontin, D. I., Al-Hachami, A. K. & Galsgaard, K., 2011, A&A, 533, A78
41	Theory of magnetic reconnection in solar and astrophysical plasmas Pontin, D. I., 2012, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 370, 3169
39	Heating of braided coronal loops Wilmot-Smith, A. L., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R. & Hornig, G., 2011, A&A, 536, A67
39	Dynamics and waves near multiple magnetic null points in reconnection diffusion region 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., 2009, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 114, A07216
38	A fully magnetohydrodynamic simulation of three-dimensional non-null reconnection Pontin, D. I., Galsgaard, K., Hornig, G. & Priest, E. R., 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052307
37	Why Are Flare Ribbons Associated with the Spines of Magnetic Null Points Generically Elongated? Pontin, David, Galsgaard, Klaus & Démoulin, Pascal, 2016, Solar Physics, 291, 1739
35	Steady state reconnection at a single 3D magnetic null point Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., 2011, A&A, 529, A20
35	The Imprint of Intermittent Interchange Reconnection on the Solar Wind Wyper, Peter F., DeVore, C. R., Antiochos, S. K., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, Aleida K., Scott, Roger, Masson, Sophie & Pelegrin-Frachon, Theo, 2022, ApJ, 941, L29
35	Current accumulation at an asymmetric 3D null point caused by generic shearing motions Galsgaard, K. & Pontin, D. I., 2011, A&A, 534, A2
31	SOTE: A Nonlinear Method for Magnetic Topology Reconstruction in Space Plasmas Liu, Y. Y., Fu, H. S., Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Liu, C. M., Wang, Z., Chen, G., Dai, L. & Retino, A., 2019, ApJS, 244, 31
30	The Effect of Reconnection on the Structure of the Sun's Open-Closed Flux Boundary Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., 2015, ApJ, 805, 39
28	The Parker problem: existence of smooth force-free fields and coronal heating Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, 2020, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 17, 5
27	Current sheets at three-dimensional magnetic nulls: Effect of compressibility Pontin, D. I., Bhattacharjee, A. & Galsgaard, K., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 052109
27	The Structure of Current Layers and Degree of Field-line Braiding in Coronal Loops Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2015, ApJ, 805, 47
27	Magnetic reconnection at 3D null points: effect of magnetic field asymmetry Al-Hachami, A. K. & Pontin, D. I., 2010, A&A, 512, A84
25	Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: Interpretation of S-Web Arcs Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Yeates, Anthony R., Wyper, Peter F. & Higginson, Aleida K., 2018, ApJ, 869, 60
25	On the periodicity of linear and nonlinear oscillatory reconnection Thurgood, J. O., Pontin, D. I. & McLaughlin, J. A., 2019, A&A, 621, A106
24	Braided magnetic fields: equilibria, relaxation and heating Pontin, D. I., Candelaresi, S., Russell, A. J. B. & Hornig, G., 2016, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58, 054008
23	Dynamic Three-dimensional Reconnection in a Separator Geometry with Two Null Points Pontin, D. I. & Craig, I. J. D., 2006, ApJ, 642, 568
23	Is Flare Ribbon Fine Structure Related to Tearing in the Flare Current Sheet? Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, ApJ, 920, 102
22	On the Magnetic Squashing Factor and the Lie Transport of Tangents Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Hornig, Gunnar, 2017, ApJ, 848, 117
22	Lagrangian Relaxation Schemes for Calculating Force-free Magnetic Fields, and Their Limitations Pontin, D. I., Hornig, G., Wilmot-Smith, A. L. & Craig, I. J. D., 2009, ApJ, 700, 1449
19	Current Singularities in Line-tied Three-dimensional Magnetic Fields Craig, I. J. D. & Pontin, D. I., 2014, ApJ, 788, 177
16	Magnetic Structures at the Boundary of the Closed Corona: A Semi-automated Study of S-Web Morphology Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I. & Wyper, Peter F., 2019, ApJ, 882, 125
15	Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Generation by Flux Cancellation Reconnection Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R., Chitta, L. P. & Titov, V. S., 2024, ApJ, 960, 51
15	Reconnection of vortex tubes with axial flow McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., 2019, Physical Review Fluids, 4, 024701
15	Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null Wyper, P. F. & Pontin, D. I., 2013, Physics of Plasmas, 20, 032117
15	Vortex line topology during vortex tube reconnection McGavin, P. & Pontin, D. I., 2018, Physical Review Fluids, 3, 054701
15	Effects of Pseudostreamer Boundary Dynamics on Heliospheric Field and Wind Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B., Antiochos, S. K. & DeVore, C. R., 2021, ApJ, 909, 10
14	Non-thermal line broadening due to braiding-induced turbulence in solar coronal loops Pontin, D. I., Peter, H. & Chitta, L. P., 2020, A&A, 639, A21
14	Mimetic Methods for Lagrangian Relaxation of Magnetic Fields Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. & Hornig, G., 2014, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 36, B952
13	Magnetic reconnection and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the solar corona Howson, T. A., De Moortel, I. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, A&A, 656, A112
13	Implosive Collapse about Magnetic Null Points: A Quantitative Comparison between 2D and 3D Nulls Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2018, ApJ, 855, 50
12	The Dynamic Formation of Pseudostreamers Scott, Roger B., Pontin, David I., Antiochos, Spiro K., DeVore, C. Richard & Wyper, Peter F., 2021, ApJ, 913, 64
12	On the Formation of Current Sheets in Response to the Compression or Expansion of a Potential Magnetic Field Pontin, D. I. & Huang, Y.-M., 2012, ApJ, 756, 7
12	Do Current and Magnetic Helicities Have the Same Sign? Russell, A. J. B., Demoulin, P., Hornig, G., Pontin, D. I. & Candelaresi, S., 2019, ApJ, 884, 55
12	Spine-fan reconnection. The influence of temporal and spatial variation in the driver Wyper, P. F., Jain, R. & Pontin, D. I., 2012, A&A, 545, A78
12	Magnetic Field Relaxation and Current Sheets in an Ideal Plasma Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2015, ApJ, 808, 134
12	Spatially Separated Electron and Proton Beams in a Simulated Solar Coronal Jet Pallister, Ross, Wyper, Peter F., Pontin, David I., DeVore, C. Richard & Chiti, Federica, 2021, ApJ, 923, 163
11	Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies Raboonik, Axel, Tarr, Lucas A. & Pontin, David I., 2024, ApJ, 967, 80
10	The Dynamic Structure of Coronal Hole Boundaries Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Scott, R. B., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F. & Antiochos, S. K., 2022, ApJ, 931, 96
9	Reconnection-generated Plasma Flows in the Quasi-separatrix Layer in Localized Solar Corona 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, 2023, ApJ, 953, 84
9	Estimating the Rate of Field Line Braiding in the Solar Corona by Photospheric Flows Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I., Yeates, A. R., Bushby, P. J. & Hornig, G., 2018, ApJ, 864, 157
8	A comparison of methods for finding magnetic nulls in simulations and in situ observations of space plasmas Olshevsky, V., Pontin, D. I., Williams, B., Parnell, C. E., Fu, H. S., Liu, Y., Yao, S. & Khotyaintsev, Y. V., 2020, A&A, 644, A150
8	2.5D Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of the Formation and Evolution of Plasmoids in Coronal Current Sheets Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, Abhishek K., Pontin, David I., Yuan, Ding & Priest, Eric R., 2024, ApJ, 963, 139
8	A magnetic avalanche as the central engine powering a solar flare 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., 2026, A&A, 705, A113
8	Quantifying the tangling of trajectories using the topological entropy Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2017, Chaos, 27, 093102
7	The Dynamic Coupling of Streamers and Pseudostreamers to the Heliosphere Aslanyan, V., Pontin, D. I., Higginson, A. K., Wyper, P. F., Scott, R. B. & Antiochos, S. K., 2022, ApJ, 929, 185
7	Parallel Plasma Loops and the Energization of the Solar Corona 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., 2022, ApJ, 933, 153
7	Resistively-limited current sheet implosions in planar anti-parallel (1D) and null-point containing (2D) magnetic field geometries Thurgood, Jonathan O., Pontin, David I. & McLaughlin, James A., 2018, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 072105
6	Effects of Field-line Topology on Energy Propagation in the Corona Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2016, ApJ, 832, 150
6	A New Field Line Tracer for the Study of Coronal Magnetic Topologies Aslanyan, Valentin, Scott, Roger B., Wilkins, Chloe P., Meyer, Karen A., Pontin, David I. & Yeates, Anthony R., 2024, ApJ, 971, 137
5	A Framework for Understanding the Topology of Complex Coronal Structures Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. R. & Longcope, D. W., 2003, Solar Physics, 212, 319
5	Proton acceleration at tearing coronal null-point current sheets Pallister, R., Pontin, D. I. & Wyper, P. F., 2019, A&A, 622, A207
4	Generation and annihilation of three dimensional magnetic nulls in extrapolated solar coronal magnetic field: data-based Implicit Large Eddy simulation Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., 2024, Physica Scripta, 99, 075017
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 Roland-Batty, W., Schunker, H., Cameron, R. H., Przybylski, D., Gizon, L. & Pontin, D. I., 2025, A&A, 700, A28
4	Localized Heating and Dynamics of the Solar Corona due to a Symbiosis of Waves and Reconnection Srivastava, A. K., Mondal, Sripan, Priest, Eric R., Mishra, Sudheer K., Pontin, David I., Kwon, R. Y., Yuan, Ding, Murawski, K. & Asai, Ayumi, 2025, ApJ, 984, 36
4	Magnetic reconnections as the underlying cause of spontaneous generation and annihilation of three-dimensional magnetic nulls Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit & Pontin, David I., 2023, Physics of Plasmas, 30, 022901
3	Heating in the solar atmosphere at a fin current sheet driven by magnetic flux cancellation Priest, Eric R. & Pontin, David I., 2024, MNRAS, 534, 3133
3	The Sun's Open─Closed Flux Boundary and the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind Wilkins, Chloe P., Pontin, David I., Yeates, Anthony R., Antiochos, Spiro K., Schunker, Hannah & Lamichhane, Bishnu, 2025, ApJ, 985, 190
3	Topological constraints in the reconnection of vortex braids Candelaresi, S., Hornig, G., Podger, B. & Pontin, D. I., 2021, Physics of Fluids, 33, 056101
3	Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies. II. Fully Analytical Equations and Pseudoadvective Eigenenergies Raboonik, Axel, Pontin, David I. & Tarr, Lucas A., 2024, ApJ, 977, 191
3	Exploring the generation and annihilation of three-dimensional nulls through MHD simulations in initially chaotic magnetic field devoid of nulls Maurya, Yogesh Kumar, Bhattacharyya, Ramit, Pontin, David I. & Kumar, Sanjay, 2024, Physics of Plasmas, 31, 074502
2	Magnetic reconnection Pontin, David I., Wyper, Peter F. & Priest, Eric R., 2024, Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in Solar Plasmas (Editors: Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar, Goossens, Marcel & Arregui, Inigo), p.345
1	Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies. III. Gravity, Generalized Inhomogeneous Quasi-linear Partial Differential Equations, Mode Conversion, and Numerical Implementation Raboonik, Axel, Pontin, David I. & Tarr, Lucas A., 2025, ApJ, 985, 102
1	Generation of Surface Sausage Oscillations of a Current Sheet and Propagating Magnetoacoustic Waves by Impulsive Reconnection Mondal, Sripan, Srivastava, A. K., Pontin, David I. & Priest, Eric R., 2025, ApJ, 989, 222
1	Simulations of Structured Upflows from Plumes and Their Connection to the Solar Wind Bora, K., Chitta, L. P., Chen, Yajie, Przybylski, D., Pontin, David I. & Panyam, N., 2025, ApJ, 994, L56
0	On the complex nature of coronal heating Breu, C. A., Pontin, D. I., Priest, E. & De Moortel, I., 2026, MNRAS, 545, staf2180
0	Magnetic field line braiding in the solar atmosphere Candelaresi, S., Pontin, D. I. & Hornig, G., 2017, Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere (Editors: Vargas Dominguez, S., Kosovichev, A. G., Antolin, P. & Harra, L.), IAU Symposium, 327, p. 77