Publications of A. MacKinnon

A list of publications authored or co-authored by A. MacKinnon, 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: 0000-0002-3558-4806

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 68 (refereed: 61)
No. of citations: 1502
First author papers: 10 (refereed: 10)

2025

  1. Ion-rich Acceleration during an Eruptive Flux Rope Event in a Multiple Null-point Configuration [1]
    Pesce-Rollins, Melissa, MacKinnon, Alexander, Klein, Karl-Ludwig, Russell, Alexander J. B., Hudson, Hugh, Warmuth, Alexander, Wiegelmann, Thomas, Masson, Sophie, Parnell, Clare, Nitta, Nariaki V. & Omodei, Nicola, ApJ, 989, 148

2022

  1. The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star [3]
    Matthews, S. A., Reid, H. A. S., Baker, D., Bloomfield, D. S., Browning, P. K., Calcines, A., Del Zanna, G., Erdelyi, R., Fletcher, L., Hannah, I. G., Jeffrey, N., Klein, L., Krucker, S., Kontar, E., Long, D. M., MacKinnon, A., Mann, G., Mathioudakis, M., Milligan, R., Nakariakov, V. M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Shih, A. Y., Smith, D., Veronig, A. & Vilmer, N., Experimental Astronomy, 54, 335

2021

  1. Modelling magnetised medium particle transport in the guiding centre limit with GEANT4 [0]
    Tuneu, J., Giménez de Castro, G., Szpigel, S. & MacKinnon, A., A&A, 654, A82

2020

  1. Cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere [22]
    Hudson, Hugh S., MacKinnon, Alec, Szydlarski, Mikolaj & Carlsson, Mats, MNRAS, 491, 4852
  2. FLUKA Simulations of Pion Decay Gamma-Radiation from Energetic Flare Ions [5]
    MacKinnon, Alexander, Szpigel, Sergio, Gimenez de Castro, Guillermo & Tuneu, Jordi, Solar Physics, 295, 174

2019

  1. Self-consistent Modeling of Gamma-ray Spectra from Solar Flares with the Monte Carlo Simulation Package FLUKA [9]
    Tusnski, Daneele S., Szpigel, Sergio, Giménez de Castro, Carlos Guillermo, MacKinnon, Alexander L. & Simões, Paulo José A., Solar Physics, 294, 103

2018

  1. Tracking of an electron beam through the solar corona with LOFAR [37]
    Mann, G., Breitling, F., Vocks, C., Aurass, H., Steinmetz, M., Strassmeier, K. G., Bisi, M. M., Fallows, R. A., Gallagher, P., Kerdraon, A., Mackinnon, A., Magdalenic, J., Rucker, H., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I. M., Bell, M. E., Bentum, M. J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bîrzan, L., Bonafede, A., Broderick, J. W., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H. R., Ciardi, B., Corstanje, A., de Gasperin, F., de Geus, E., Deller, A., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Engels, D., Falcke, H., Fender, R., Ferrari, C., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M. A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A. W., van Haarlem, M., Hassall, T. E., Heald, G., Hessels, J. W. T., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Horneffer, A., Juette, E., Karastergiou, A., Klijn, W. F. A., Kondratiev, V. I., Kramer, M., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Maat, P., Markoff, S., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., McKean, J. P., Mulcahy, D. D., Munk, H., Nelles, A., Norden, M. J., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pandey, V. N., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A. G., Rafferty, D., Reich, W., Röttgering, H., Scaife, A. M. M., Schwarz, D. J., Serylak, M., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Stappers, B. W., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., Tasse, C., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Toribio, M. C., Vermeulen, R., van Weeren, R. J., Wise, M. W., Wucknitz, O., Yatawatta, S., Zarka, P. & Zensus, J. A., A&A, 611, A57

2017

  1. Contribution of energetic ion secondary particles to solar flare radio spectra [2]
    Tuneu, Jordi, Szpigel, Sérgio, Giménez de Castro, Guillermo & MacKinnon, Alexander, Living Around Active Stars (Editors: Nandy, D., Valio, A. & Petit, P.), IAU Symposium, 328, p. 120

2015

  1. LOFAR tied-array imaging and spectroscopy of solar S bursts [37]
    Morosan, D. E., Gallagher, P. T., Zucca, P., O'Flannagain, A., Fallows, R., Reid, H., Magdalenić, J., Mann, G., Bisi, M. M., Kerdraon, A., Konovalenko, A. A., MacKinnon, A. L., Rucker, H. O., Thidé, B., Vocks, C., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I. M., Bentum, M. J., Bernardi, G., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., Broderick, J. W., Brouw, W. N., Butcher, H. R., Ciardi, B., de Geus, E., Eislöffel, J., Falcke, H., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M. A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A. W., Hessels, J. W. T., Hoeft, M., Karastergiou, A., Kondratiev, V. I., Kuper, G., van Leeuwen, J., McKay-Bukowski, D., McKean, J. P., Munk, H., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A. G., Scaife, A. M. M., Sluman, J., Tasse, C., Toribio, M. C., Vermeulen, R. & Zarka, P., A&A, 580, A65
  2. Origin of the 30 THz Emission Detected During the Solar Flare on 2012 March 13 at 17:20 UT [34]
    Trottet, G., Raulin, J.-P., Mackinnon, A., Giménez de Castro, G., Simões, P. J. A., Cabezas, D., de La Luz, V., Luoni, M. & Kaufmann, P., Solar Physics, 290, 2809

2014

  1. Effect of binary collisions on electron acceleration in magnetic reconnection [13]
    Burge, C. A., MacKinnon, A. L. & Petkaki, P., A&A, 561, A107
  2. LOFAR tied-array imaging of Type III solar radio bursts [68]
    Morosan, D. E., Gallagher, P. T., Zucca, P., Fallows, R., Carley, E. P., Mann, G., Bisi, M. M., Kerdraon, A., Konovalenko, A. A., MacKinnon, A. L., Rucker, H. O., Thidé, B., Magdalenić, J., Vocks, C., Reid, H., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I. M., Bentum, M. J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Bregman, J., Breitling, F., Broderick, J., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H. R., Ciardi, B., Conway, J. E., de Gasperin, F., de Geus, E., Deller, A., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Engels, D., Falcke, H., Ferrari, C., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M. A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A. W., Hassall, T. E., Hessels, J. W. T., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Horneffer, A., Iacobelli, M., Juette, E., Karastergiou, A., Kondratiev, V. I., Kramer, M., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Maat, P., Markoff, S., McKean, J. P., Mulcahy, D. D., Munk, H., Nelles, A., Norden, M. J., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pandey, V. N., Pietka, G., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A. G., Reich, W., Röttgering, H., Scaife, A. M. M., Schwarz, D., Serylak, M., Smirnov, O., Stappers, B. W., Stewart, A., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., Tasse, C., Thoudam, S., Toribio, C., Vermeulen, R., van Weeren, R. J., Wucknitz, O., Yatawatta, S. & Zarka, P., A&A, 568, A67

2013

  1. Wavelets, Intermittency and Solar Flare Hard X-rays 2. LIM Analysis of High Time Resolution BATSE Data [3]
    Dinkelaker, A. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 282, 483
  2. Wavelets, Intermittency and Solar Flare Hard X-rays 1. Local Intermittency Measure in Cascade and Avalanche Scenarios [2]
    Dinkelaker, A. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 282, 471
  3. Remote sensing of low-energy SEPs via charge exchange [1]
    Hudson, H. S., MacKinnon, A. L. & Badnell, N. R., Solar Wind 13 (Editors: Zank, Gary P., Borovsky, Joe, Bruno, Roberto, Cirtain, Jonathan, Cranmer, Steve, Elliott, Heather, Giacalone, Joe, Gonzalez, Walter, Li, Gang, Marsch, Eckart, Moebius, Ebehard, Pogorelov, Nick, Spann, Jim & Verkhoglyadova, Olga), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, p. 19
  4. Solar flares at submillimeter wavelengths [71]
    Krucker, Säm, Giménez de Castro, C. G., Hudson, H. S., Trottet, G., Bastian, T. S., Hales, A. S., Kašparová, J., Klein, K.-L., Kretzschmar, M., Lüthi, T., Mackinnon, A., Pohjolainen, S. & White, S. M., Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 21, 58

2012

  1. Numerical Simulations of Chromospheric Hard X-Ray Source Sizes in Solar Flares [19]
    Battaglia, M., Kontar, E. P., Fletcher, L. & MacKinnon, A. L., ApJ, 752, 4
  2. Particle Acceleration in the Presence of Weak Turbulence at an X-Type Neutral Point [7]
    Burge, C. A., Petkaki, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 280, 575
  3. Charge-exchange Limits on Low-energy α-particle Fluxes in Solar Flares [10]
    Hudson, H. S., Fletcher, L., MacKinnon, A. L. & Woods, T. N., ApJ, 752, 84
  4. Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK). A mission to understand the nature of particle acceleration [4]
    Matthews, Sarah A., Williams, David R., Klein, Karl-Ludwig, Kontar, Eduard P., Smith, David M., Lagg, Andreas, Krucker, Sam, Hurford, Gordon J., Vilmer, Nicole, MacKinnon, Alexander L., Zharkova, Valentina V., Fletcher, Lyndsay, Hannah, Iain G., Browning, Philippa K., Innes, Davina E., Trottet, Gerard, Foullon, Clare, Nakariakov, Valery M., Green, Lucie M., Lamoureux, Herve, Forsyth, Colin, Walton, David M., Mathioudakis, Mihalis, Gandorfer, Achim, Martinez-Pillet, Valentin, Limousin, Olivier, Verwichte, Erwin, Dalla, Silvia, Mann, Gottfried, Aurass, Henri & Neukirch, Thomas, Experimental Astronomy, 33, 237
  5. Electron-beam-induced Radio Emission from Ultracool Dwarfs [13]
    Yu, S., Doyle, J. G., Kuznetsov, A., Hallinan, G., Antonova, A., MacKinnon, A. L. & Golden, A., ApJ, 752, 60

2011

  1. Turbulent cross-field transport of non-thermal electrons in coronal loops: theory and observations [24]
    Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., A&A, 535, A18
  2. Acceleration of charged particles by fluctuating and steady electric fields in a X-type magnetic field [9]
    Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Advances in Space Research, 48, 884
  3. Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from γ-Ray and Neutron Observations [112]
    Vilmer, N., MacKinnon, A. L. & Hurford, G. J., Space Science Reviews, 159, 167
  4. Mapping radio emitting-region on low-mass stars and brown dwarfs [0]
    Yu, S., Doyle, J. G., Hallinan, G. & MacKinnon, A. L., European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 16, p. 06013
  5. Modelling the radio pulses of an ultracool dwarf [27]
    Yu, S., Hallinan, G., Doyle, J. G., MacKinnon, A. L., Antonova, A., Kuznetsov, A., Golden, A. & Zhang, Z. H., A&A, 525, A39

2010

  1. Thermalisation and hard X-ray bremsstrahlung efficiency of self-interacting solar flare fast electrons [7]
    Galloway, R. K., Helander, P., MacKinnon, A. L. & Brown, J. C., A&A, 520, A72
  2. Inverse Compton X-rays from relativistic flare electrons and positrons [6]
    MacKinnon, A. L. & Mallik, P. C. V., A&A, 510, A29

2009

  1. Calibration of the Fast Neutron Imaging Telescope (FNIT) Prototype Detector [10]
    Bravar, Ulisse, Woolf, Richard S., Bruillard, Paul J., Fluckiger, Erwin O., Legere, Jason S., MacKinnon, Alec L., Macri, John R., Mallik, Procheta C., McConnell, Mark L., Pirard, Benoit & Ryan, James M., IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56, 2947
  2. Local re-acceleration and a modified thick target model of solar flare electrons [97]
    Brown, J. C., Turkmani, R., Kontar, E. P., MacKinnon, A. L. & Vlahos, L., A&A, 508, 993
  3. Coronal Radiation Belts [5]
    Hudson, H. S., MacKinnon, A. L., De Rosa, M. L. & Frewen, S. F. N., ApJ, 698, L86
  4. Test and simulation of a Fast Neutron Imaging Telescope [6]
    Pirard, B., Woolf, R. S., Bravar, U., Bruillard, P. J., Flückiger, E. O., Legere, J. S., MacKinnon, A. L., Macri, J. R., Mallik, P. C. V., Moser, M. R. & Ryan, J. M., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 603, 406
  5. Advanced characterization and simulation of SONNE: a fast neutron spectrometer for Solar Probe Plus [5]
    Woolf, Richard S., Ryan, James M., Bloser, Peter F., Bravar, Ulisse, Flückiger, Erwin O., Legere, Jason S., MacKinnon, Alexander, Mallik, Procheta C., McConnell, Mark L. & Pirard, Benoît, Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation III (Editors: Fineschi, Silvano & Fennelly, Judy A.), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 7438, p. 74380S

2008

  1. Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop [71]
    Kontar, E. P., Hannah, I. G. & MacKinnon, A. L., A&A, 489, L57
  2. Hard X-ray emission from the solar corona [235]
    Krucker, S., Battaglia, M., Cargill, P. J., Fletcher, L., Hudson, H. S., MacKinnon, A. L., Masuda, S., Sui, L., Tomczak, M., Veronig, A. L., Vlahos, L. & White, S. M., Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 16, 155
  3. Coronal γ-Ray Bremsstrahlung from Solar Flare-accelerated Electrons [60]
    Krucker, Säm, Hurford, G. J., MacKinnon, A. L., Shih, A. Y. & Lin, R. P., ApJ, 678, L63
  4. Fluctuating electric field particle acceleration at a magnetic field null point [0]
    Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Heliosphere and Beyond: 7th Annual International AstroPhysics Conference (Editors: Li, Gang, Hu, Qiang, Verkhoglyadova, Olga, Zank, Gary P., Lin, R. P. & Luhmann, J.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1039, p. 26

2007

  1. Solar hard X-ray halo from decaying neutrons [3]
    MacKinnon, A. L., A&A, 462, 763
  2. Particle acceleration by fluctuating electric fields at a magnetic field null point [20]
    Petkaki, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., A&A, 472, 623
  3. Design optimization and performance capabilities of the fast neutron imaging telescope (FNIT) [0]
    Ulisse Bravar, Bruillard, Paul J., Fluckiger, Erwin O., Legere, Jason S., Macri, John R., MacKinnon, Alec L., Procheta Mallik, McConnell, Mark L., Moser, Michael R., Pirard, Benoit, Ryan, James M. & Woolf, Richard S., 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 1, p. 64

2006

  1. Cross-Field Diffusion of Electrons in Tangled Magnetic Fields and Implications for Coronal Fine Structure [31]
    Galloway, R. K., Helander, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., ApJ, 646, 615
  2. Compton backscattered and primary X-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo [97]
    Kontar, E. P., MacKinnon, A. L., Schwartz, R. A. & Brown, J. C., A&A, 446, 1157

2005

  1. Development of the fast neutron imaging telescope [0]
    Bravar, U., Bruillard, P. J., Fluckiger, E. O., Macri, J. R., MacKinnon, A. L., McConnell, M. L., Moser, M. R., Ryan, J. M. & Woolf, R. S., IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 1, p. 32
  2. Imaging solar neutrons below 10 MeV in the inner heliosphere [3]
    Bravar, Ulisse, Bruillard, Paul J., Flueckiger, Erwin O., MacKinnon, Alec L., Macri, John R., Mallik, Procheta C., McConnell, Mark L., Moser, Michael R. & Ryan, James M., Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation (Editors: Fineschi, Silvano & Viereck, Rodney A.), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 5901, p. 141
  3. Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high temperature coronal X-ray source [22]
    Galloway, R. K., MacKinnon, A. L., Kontar, E. P. & Helander, P., A&A, 438, 1107
  4. Regularized Energy-Dependent Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectral Index [15]
    Kontar, Eduard P. & Mackinnon, Alexander L., Solar Physics, 227, 299
  5. Applications of a phoswich-based detector for fast (∼1 10 MeV) solar neutrons for missions to the inner heliosphere [0]
    McKibben, R. B., Connell, J. J., Macri, J. R., McConnell, M. L., Ryan, J. M., Flückiger, E. O., Moser, M. R., Brown, J. C. & McKinnon, A. L., Advances in Space Research, 36, 1432

2004

  1. Do fast protons and α particles have the same energy distributions in solar flares? [8]
    Toner, M. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 223, 155

2003

  1. Warm thick target solar gamma -ray source revisited [5]
    MacKinnon, A. L. & Toner, M. P., A&A, 409, 745
  2. High energy particles accelerated during the large solar flare of 1990 May 24: X/γ-ray observations [41]
    Vilmer, N., MacKinnon, A. L., Trottet, G. & Barat, C., A&A, 412, 865

1997

  1. Coulomb Energy Losses in the Solar Corona and the Proton Energy Budget in Flares [13]
    Emslie, A. Gordon, Brown, John C. & MacKinnon, Alexander L., ApJ, 485, 430
  2. One-dimensional percolation models of transient phenomena [3]
    MacPherson, K. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 243, 1
  3. Particle Acceleration in Dynamical Collisionless Reconnection [16]
    Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Solar Physics, 172, 279

1994

  1. High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Solar Flares - Constraining the Accelerated Proton Spectrum [14]
    Alexander, David, Dunphy, Philip P. & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Solar Physics, 151, 147
  2. Particle orbits near a neutral point [3]
    Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alec L., Space Science Reviews, 68, 117

1993

  1. Alfvén turbulence and the time dependence of non-thermal line broadening in flares [10]
    Alexander, David & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Solar Physics, 144, 155
  2. Interpretation of solar flare γ-Ray continuum observations [1]
    Alexander, David & MacKinnon, Alexander L., Advances in Space Research, 13, 259

1991

  1. Heating of astrophysical plasma by mildly-relativistic non-thermal protons [0]
    Dwivedi, B. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., Astrophysics and Space Science, 178, 287
  2. Proton energy deposition in converging magnetic fields [0]
    Dwivedi, B. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., Advances in Space Research, 11, 331
  3. Solar flare proton acceleration by Alfven turbulence [8]
    MacKinnon, A. L., Vistas in Astronomy, 34, 331

1990

  1. Beam Heating in Solar Flares: Electrons or Protons? [38]
    Brown, J. C., Karlicky, M., MacKinnon, A. L. & van den Oord, G. H. J., ApJS, 73, 343
  2. Return Current and Collisional Effects in Nonthermal Electron Beams with Pulsed Injection [23]
    Karlicky, M., Alexander, D., Brown, J. C. & MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 129, 325

1989

  1. On the Bremsstrahlung Efficiency of Nonthermal Hard X-Ray Source Models [9]
    MacKinnon, A. L. & Brown, J. C., Solar Physics, 122, 303

1986

  1. Comments on the thick-target interpretation of solar X-ray burst `stereo' observations [3]
    MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 106, 415
  2. Interpretation of Temporal Features in an Unusual X-Ray and Microwave Burst [6]
    MacKinnon, A. L., Costa, J. E. R., Kaufmann, P. & Dennis, B. R., Solar Physics, 104, 191

1985

  1. Solution of the Electron Continuity Equation in an Inhomogeneous Medium via the Method of Characteristics [20]
    Craig, I. J. D., MacKinnon, A. L. & Vilmer, N., Astrophysics and Space Science, 116, 377
  2. Quantitative analysis of hard X-ray `footpoint' flares observed by the Solar Maximum Mission [49]
    MacKinnon, A. L., Brown, J. C. & Hayward, J., Solar Physics, 99, 231
  3. Temporal Behaviour of the Thermal Model of Hard X-Ray Bursts [6]
    MacKinnon, A. L., Solar Physics, 98, 293

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