Publications of A. MacKinnon ordered by citations


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

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3558-4806

Number of papers: 68
No. of citations: 1502

235 Hard X-ray emission from the solar corona
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., 2008, Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 16, 155
112 Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from γ-Ray and Neutron Observations
Vilmer, N., MacKinnon, A. L. & Hurford, G. J., 2011, Space Science Reviews, 159, 167
97 Compton backscattered and primary X-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo
Kontar, E. P., MacKinnon, A. L., Schwartz, R. A. & Brown, J. C., 2006, A&A, 446, 1157
97 Local re-acceleration and a modified thick target model of solar flare electrons
Brown, J. C., Turkmani, R., Kontar, E. P., MacKinnon, A. L. & Vlahos, L., 2009, A&A, 508, 993
71 Solar flares at submillimeter wavelengths
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., 2013, Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 21, 58
71 Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop
Kontar, E. P., Hannah, I. G. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2008, A&A, 489, L57
68 LOFAR tied-array imaging of Type III solar radio bursts
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., 2014, A&A, 568, A67
60 Coronal γ-Ray Bremsstrahlung from Solar Flare-accelerated Electrons
Krucker, Säm, Hurford, G. J., MacKinnon, A. L., Shih, A. Y. & Lin, R. P., 2008, ApJ, 678, L63
49 Quantitative analysis of hard X-ray `footpoint' flares observed by the Solar Maximum Mission
MacKinnon, A. L., Brown, J. C. & Hayward, J., 1985, Solar Physics, 99, 231
41 High energy particles accelerated during the large solar flare of 1990 May 24: X/γ-ray observations
Vilmer, N., MacKinnon, A. L., Trottet, G. & Barat, C., 2003, A&A, 412, 865
38 Beam Heating in Solar Flares: Electrons or Protons?
Brown, J. C., Karlicky, M., MacKinnon, A. L. & van den Oord, G. H. J., 1990, ApJS, 73, 343
37 Tracking of an electron beam through the solar corona with LOFAR
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., 2018, A&A, 611, A57
37 LOFAR tied-array imaging and spectroscopy of solar S bursts
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., 2015, A&A, 580, A65
34 Origin of the 30 THz Emission Detected During the Solar Flare on 2012 March 13 at 17:20 UT
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., 2015, Solar Physics, 290, 2809
31 Cross-Field Diffusion of Electrons in Tangled Magnetic Fields and Implications for Coronal Fine Structure
Galloway, R. K., Helander, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2006, ApJ, 646, 615
27 Modelling the radio pulses of an ultracool dwarf
Yu, S., Hallinan, G., Doyle, J. G., MacKinnon, A. L., Antonova, A., Kuznetsov, A., Golden, A. & Zhang, Z. H., 2011, A&A, 525, A39
24 Turbulent cross-field transport of non-thermal electrons in coronal loops: theory and observations
Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2011, A&A, 535, A18
23 Return Current and Collisional Effects in Nonthermal Electron Beams with Pulsed Injection
Karlicky, M., Alexander, D., Brown, J. C. & MacKinnon, A. L., 1990, Solar Physics, 129, 325
22 Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high temperature coronal X-ray source
Galloway, R. K., MacKinnon, A. L., Kontar, E. P. & Helander, P., 2005, A&A, 438, 1107
22 Cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere
Hudson, Hugh S., MacKinnon, Alec, Szydlarski, Mikolaj & Carlsson, Mats, 2020, MNRAS, 491, 4852
20 Particle acceleration by fluctuating electric fields at a magnetic field null point
Petkaki, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2007, A&A, 472, 623
20 Solution of the Electron Continuity Equation in an Inhomogeneous Medium via the Method of Characteristics
Craig, I. J. D., MacKinnon, A. L. & Vilmer, N., 1985, Astrophysics and Space Science, 116, 377
19 Numerical Simulations of Chromospheric Hard X-Ray Source Sizes in Solar Flares
Battaglia, M., Kontar, E. P., Fletcher, L. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2012, ApJ, 752, 4
16 Particle Acceleration in Dynamical Collisionless Reconnection
Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 1997, Solar Physics, 172, 279
15 Regularized Energy-Dependent Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectral Index
Kontar, Eduard P. & Mackinnon, Alexander L., 2005, Solar Physics, 227, 299
14 High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Solar Flares - Constraining the Accelerated Proton Spectrum
Alexander, David, Dunphy, Philip P. & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 1994, Solar Physics, 151, 147
13 Electron-beam-induced Radio Emission from Ultracool Dwarfs
Yu, S., Doyle, J. G., Kuznetsov, A., Hallinan, G., Antonova, A., MacKinnon, A. L. & Golden, A., 2012, ApJ, 752, 60
13 Coulomb Energy Losses in the Solar Corona and the Proton Energy Budget in Flares
Emslie, A. Gordon, Brown, John C. & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 1997, ApJ, 485, 430
13 Effect of binary collisions on electron acceleration in magnetic reconnection
Burge, C. A., MacKinnon, A. L. & Petkaki, P., 2014, A&A, 561, A107
10 Calibration of the Fast Neutron Imaging Telescope (FNIT) Prototype Detector
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., 2009, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56, 2947
10 Alfvén turbulence and the time dependence of non-thermal line broadening in flares
Alexander, David & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 1993, Solar Physics, 144, 155
10 Charge-exchange Limits on Low-energy α-particle Fluxes in Solar Flares
Hudson, H. S., Fletcher, L., MacKinnon, A. L. & Woods, T. N., 2012, ApJ, 752, 84
9 Acceleration of charged particles by fluctuating and steady electric fields in a X-type magnetic field
Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 2011, Advances in Space Research, 48, 884
9 On the Bremsstrahlung Efficiency of Nonthermal Hard X-Ray Source Models
MacKinnon, A. L. & Brown, J. C., 1989, Solar Physics, 122, 303
9 Self-consistent Modeling of Gamma-ray Spectra from Solar Flares with the Monte Carlo Simulation Package FLUKA
Tusnski, Daneele S., Szpigel, Sergio, Giménez de Castro, Carlos Guillermo, MacKinnon, Alexander L. & Simões, Paulo José A., 2019, Solar Physics, 294, 103
8 Solar flare proton acceleration by Alfven turbulence
MacKinnon, A. L., 1991, Vistas in Astronomy, 34, 331
8 Do fast protons and α particles have the same energy distributions in solar flares?
Toner, M. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2004, Solar Physics, 223, 155
7 Thermalisation and hard X-ray bremsstrahlung efficiency of self-interacting solar flare fast electrons
Galloway, R. K., Helander, P., MacKinnon, A. L. & Brown, J. C., 2010, A&A, 520, A72
7 Particle Acceleration in the Presence of Weak Turbulence at an X-Type Neutral Point
Burge, C. A., Petkaki, P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2012, Solar Physics, 280, 575
6 Interpretation of Temporal Features in an Unusual X-Ray and Microwave Burst
MacKinnon, A. L., Costa, J. E. R., Kaufmann, P. & Dennis, B. R., 1986, Solar Physics, 104, 191
6 Temporal Behaviour of the Thermal Model of Hard X-Ray Bursts
MacKinnon, A. L., 1985, Solar Physics, 98, 293
6 Test and simulation of a Fast Neutron Imaging Telescope
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., 2009, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 603, 406
6 Inverse Compton X-rays from relativistic flare electrons and positrons
MacKinnon, A. L. & Mallik, P. C. V., 2010, A&A, 510, A29
5 FLUKA Simulations of Pion Decay Gamma-Radiation from Energetic Flare Ions
MacKinnon, Alexander, Szpigel, Sergio, Gimenez de Castro, Guillermo & Tuneu, Jordi, 2020, Solar Physics, 295, 174
5 Advanced characterization and simulation of SONNE: a fast neutron spectrometer for Solar Probe Plus
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, 2009, 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
5 Coronal Radiation Belts
Hudson, H. S., MacKinnon, A. L., De Rosa, M. L. & Frewen, S. F. N., 2009, ApJ, 698, L86
5 Warm thick target solar gamma -ray source revisited
MacKinnon, A. L. & Toner, M. P., 2003, A&A, 409, 745
4 Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK). A mission to understand the nature of particle acceleration
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, 2012, Experimental Astronomy, 33, 237
3 Comments on the thick-target interpretation of solar X-ray burst `stereo' observations
MacKinnon, A. L., 1986, Solar Physics, 106, 415
3 Particle orbits near a neutral point
Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alec L., 1994, Space Science Reviews, 68, 117
3 Imaging solar neutrons below 10 MeV in the inner heliosphere
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., 2005, 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 Solar hard X-ray halo from decaying neutrons
MacKinnon, A. L., 2007, A&A, 462, 763
3 Wavelets, Intermittency and Solar Flare Hard X-rays 2. LIM Analysis of High Time Resolution BATSE Data
Dinkelaker, A. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2013, Solar Physics, 282, 483
3 The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star
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., 2022, Experimental Astronomy, 54, 335
3 One-dimensional percolation models of transient phenomena
MacPherson, K. P. & MacKinnon, A. L., 1997, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 243, 1
2 Wavelets, Intermittency and Solar Flare Hard X-rays 1. Local Intermittency Measure in Cascade and Avalanche Scenarios
Dinkelaker, A. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2013, Solar Physics, 282, 471
2 Contribution of energetic ion secondary particles to solar flare radio spectra
Tuneu, Jordi, Szpigel, Sérgio, Giménez de Castro, Guillermo & MacKinnon, Alexander, 2017, Living Around Active Stars (Editors: Nandy, D., Valio, A. & Petit, P.), IAU Symposium, 328, p. 120
1 Interpretation of solar flare γ-Ray continuum observations
Alexander, David & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 1993, Advances in Space Research, 13, 259
1 Remote sensing of low-energy SEPs via charge exchange
Hudson, H. S., MacKinnon, A. L. & Badnell, N. R., 2013, 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
1 Ion-rich Acceleration during an Eruptive Flux Rope Event in a Multiple Null-point Configuration
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, 2025, ApJ, 989, 148
0 Applications of a phoswich-based detector for fast (∼1 10 MeV) solar neutrons for missions to the inner heliosphere
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., 2005, Advances in Space Research, 36, 1432
0 Modelling magnetised medium particle transport in the guiding centre limit with GEANT4
Tuneu, J., Giménez de Castro, G., Szpigel, S. & MacKinnon, A., 2021, A&A, 654, A82
0 Mapping radio emitting-region on low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
Yu, S., Doyle, J. G., Hallinan, G. & MacKinnon, A. L., 2011, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 16, p. 06013
0 Heating of astrophysical plasma by mildly-relativistic non-thermal protons
Dwivedi, B. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., 1991, Astrophysics and Space Science, 178, 287
0 Proton energy deposition in converging magnetic fields
Dwivedi, B. N. & MacKinnon, A. L., 1991, Advances in Space Research, 11, 331
0 Design optimization and performance capabilities of the fast neutron imaging telescope (FNIT)
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, 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 1, p. 64
0 Development of the fast neutron imaging telescope
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., 2005, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 1, p. 32
0 Fluctuating electric field particle acceleration at a magnetic field null point
Petkaki, Panagiota & MacKinnon, Alexander L., 2008, 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


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