Publications of Luca Franci ordered by citations

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

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7419-0527

131	Magnetic Reconnection as a Driver for a Sub-ion-scale Cascade in Plasma Turbulence Franci, Luca, Cerri, Silvio Sergio, Califano, Francesco, Landi, Simone, Papini, Emanuele, Verdini, Andrea, Matteini, Lorenzo, Jenko, Frank & Hellinger, Petr, 2017, ApJ, 850, L16
109	High-resolution Hybrid Simulations of Kinetic Plasma Turbulence at Proton Scales Franci, Luca, Landi, Simone, Matteini, Lorenzo, Verdini, Andrea & Hellinger, Petr, 2015, ApJ, 812, 21
108	Properties of the Turbulence Associated with Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosheath Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P., Phan, T. D., Gingell, I. L., Shay, M. A., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L., Gershman, D. J., Le Contel, O., Lindqvist, P.-A., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Torbert, R. B., Argall, M. R., Fischer, D., Magnes, W. & Franci, L., 2019, ApJ, 877, L37
87	Solar Wind Turbulent Cascade from MHD to Sub-ion Scales: Large-size 3D Hybrid Particle-in-cell Simulations Franci, Luca, Landi, Simone, Verdini, Andrea, Matteini, Lorenzo & Hellinger, Petr, 2018, ApJ, 853, 26
77	Plasma Beta Dependence of the Ion-scale Spectral Break of Solar Wind Turbulence: High-resolution 2D Hybrid Simulations Franci, Luca, Landi, Simone, Matteini, Lorenzo, Verdini, Andrea & Hellinger, Petr, 2016, ApJ, 833, 91
70	von Kármán-Howarth Equation for Hall Magnetohydrodynamics: Hybrid Simulations Hellinger, Petr, Verdini, Andrea, Landi, Simone, Franci, Luca & Matteini, Lorenzo, 2018, ApJ, 857, L19
70	Can Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Explain Plasma Turbulence at Sub-ion Scales? Papini, Emanuele, Franci, Luca, Landi, Simone, Verdini, Andrea, Matteini, Lorenzo & Hellinger, Petr, 2019, ApJ, 870, 52
64	Solar Wind Turbulence from MHD to Sub-ion Scales: High-resolution Hybrid Simulations Franci, Luca, Verdini, Andrea, Matteini, Lorenzo, Landi, Simone & Hellinger, Petr, 2015, ApJ, 804, L39
63	In Situ Observation of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Cascade in Space Plasma Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Chasapis, Alexandros, Hellinger, Petr, Matthaeus, William H., Verdini, Andrea, Landi, Simone, Franci, Luca, Matteini, Lorenzo, Giles, Barbara L., Gershman, Daniel J., Moore, Thomas E., Pollock, Craig J., Russell, Christopher T., Strangeway, Robert J., Torbert, Roy B. & Burch, James L., 2020, Physical Review Letters, 124, 225101
50	Plasma Turbulence and Kinetic Instabilities at Ion Scales in the Expanding Solar Wind Hellinger, Petr, Matteini, Lorenzo, Landi, Simone, Verdini, Andrea, Franci, Luca & Trávníček, Pavel M., 2015, ApJ, 811, L32
49	Kinetic plasma turbulence: recent insights and open questions from 3D3V simulations Cerri, Silvio Sergio, Grošelj, Daniel & Franci, Luca, 2019, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 6, 64
38	Magnetic field turbulence in the solar wind at sub-ion scales: in situ observations and numerical simulations Matteini, L., Franci, L., Alexandrova, O., Lacombe, C., Landi, S., Hellinger, P., Papini, E. & Verdini, A., 2020, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 7, 83
34	Anisotropic Electron Heating in Turbulence-driven Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Sun Solar Wind Franci, Luca, Papini, Emanuele, Micera, Alfredo, Lapenta, Giovanni, Hellinger, Petr, Sarto, Daniele Del, Burgess, David & Landi, Simone, 2022, ApJ, 936, 27
34	Properties of an Interplanetary Shock Observed at 0.07 and 0.7 au by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Trotta, Domenico, Larosa, Andrea, Nicolaou, Georgios, Horbury, Timothy S., Matteini, Lorenzo, Hietala, Heli, Blanco-Cano, Xochitl, Franci, Luca, Chen, C. H. K., Zhao, Lingling, Zank, Gary P., Cohen, Christina M. S., Bale, Stuart D., Laker, Ronan, Fargette, Nais, Valentini, Francesco, Khotyaintsev, Yuri, Kieokaew, Rungployphan, Raouafi, Nour, Davies, Emma, Vainio, Rami, Dresing, Nina, Kilpua, Emilia, Karlsson, Tomas, Owen, Christopher J. & Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F., 2024, ApJ, 962, 147
33	Plasma turbulence at ion scales: a comparison between particle in cell and Eulerian hybrid-kinetic approaches Cerri, S. S., Franci, L., Califano, F., Landi, S. & Hellinger, P., 2017, Journal of Plasma Physics, 83, 705830202
30	Mirror Instability in the Turbulent Solar Wind Hellinger, Petr, Landi, Simone, Matteini, Lorenzo, Verdini, Andrea & Franci, Luca, 2017, ApJ, 838, 158
30	Fast Acceleration of Transrelativistic Electrons in Astrophysical Turbulence Trotta, Domenico, Franci, Luca, Burgess, David & Hellinger, Petr, 2020, ApJ, 894, 136
28	Spectral Transfer and Kármán-Howarth-Monin Equations for Compressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Hellinger, Petr, Papini, Emanuele, Verdini, Andrea, Landi, Simone, Franci, Luca, Matteini, Lorenzo & Montagud-Camps, Victor, 2021, ApJ, 917, 101
27	Modeling MMS Observations at the Earth's Magnetopause with Hybrid Simulations of Alfvénic Turbulence Franci, Luca, Stawarz, Julia E., Papini, Emanuele, Hellinger, Petr, Nakamura, Takuma, Burgess, David, Landi, Simone, Verdini, Andrea, Matteini, Lorenzo, Ergun, Robert, Le Contel, Olivier & Lindqvist, Per-Arne, 2020, ApJ, 898, 175
27	Turbulence versus Fire-hose Instabilities: 3D Hybrid Expanding Box Simulations Hellinger, Petr, Matteini, Lorenzo, Landi, Simone, Franci, Luca, Verdini, Andrea & Papini, Emanuele, 2019, ApJ, 883, 178
25	Effects of Fluctuating Magnetic Field on the Growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Earth's Magnetopause Nakamura, T. K. M., Stawarz, J. E., Hasegawa, H., Narita, Y., Franci, L., Wilder, F. D., Nakamura, R. & Nystrom, W. D., 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 125, e27515
24	Three-dimensional simulations of solar wind turbulence with the hybrid code CAMELIA Franci, L., Hellinger, P., Guarrasi, M., Chen, C. H. K., Papini, E., Verdini, A., Matteini, L. & Landi, S., 2018, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 1031, p. 012002
23	Ion-scale Transition of Plasma Turbulence: Pressure-Strain Effect Hellinger, Petr, Montagud-Camps, Victor, Franci, Luca, Matteini, Lorenzo, Papini, Emanuele, Verdini, Andrea & Landi, Simone, 2022, ApJ, 930, 48
22	Dynamical bar-mode instability in rotating and magnetized relativistic stars Franci, Luca, De Pietri, Roberto, Dionysopoulou, Kyriaki & Rezzolla, Luciano, 2013, Physical Review D, 88, 104028
21	Spacetime Hall-MHD Turbulence at Sub-ion Scales: Structures or Waves? Papini, Emanuele, Cicone, Antonio, Franci, Luca, Piersanti, Mirko, Landi, Simone, Hellinger, Petr & Verdini, Andrea, 2021, ApJ, 917, L12
20	Decay of Solar Wind Turbulence behind Interplanetary Shocks Pitňa, Alexander, Šafránková, Jana, Němeček, Zdeněk & Franci, Luca, 2017, ApJ, 844, 51
19	Alfvénic fluctuations in the expanding solar wind: Formation and radial evolution of spherical polarization Matteini, L., Tenerani, A., Landi, S., Verdini, A., Velli, M., Hellinger, P., Franci, L., Horbury, T. S., Papini, E. & Stawarz, J. E., 2024, Physics of Plasmas, 31, 032901
18	A Case for Electron-Astrophysics Verscharen, Daniel, Wicks, Robert T., Alexandrova, Olga, Bruno, Roberto, Burgess, David, Chen, Christopher H. K., D'Amicis, Raffaella, De Keyser, Johan, de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Franci, Luca, He, Jiansen, Henri, Pierre, Kasahara, Satoshi, Khotyaintsev, Yuri, Klein, Kristopher G., Lavraud, Benoit, Maruca, Bennett A., Maksimovic, Milan, Plaschke, Ferdinand, Poedts, Stefaan, Reynolds, Christopher S., Roberts, Owen, Sahraoui, Fouad, Saito, Shinji, Salem, Chadi S., Saur, Joachim, Servidio, Sergio, Stawarz, Julia E., Štverák, Štěpán & Told, Daniel, 2022, Experimental Astronomy, 54, 473
17	Stiffness effects on the dynamics of the bar-mode instability of neutron stars in full general relativity Löffler, Frank, De Pietri, Roberto, Feo, Alessandra, Maione, Francesco & Franci, Luca, 2015, Physical Review D, 91, 064057
16	Scale dependence and cross-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible hydrodynamic turbulence at moderate Reynolds numbers Hellinger, Petr, Verdini, Andrea, Landi, Simone, Papini, Emanuele, Franci, Luca & Matteini, Lorenzo, 2021, Physical Review Fluids, 6, 044607
15	Comparative Analysis of the Various Generalized Ohm's Law Terms in Magnetosheath Turbulence as Observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale Stawarz, J. E., Matteini, L., Parashar, T. N., Franci, L., Eastwood, J. P., Gonzalez, C. A., Gingell, I. L., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Ahmadi, N., Giles, B. L., Gershman, D. J., Le Contel, O., Lindqvist, P.-A., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J. & Torbert, R. B., 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 126, e8447
13	Neutron star instabilities in full general relativity using a Γ =2.75 ideal fluid De Pietri, Roberto, Feo, Alessandra, Franci, Luca & Löffler, Frank, 2014, Physical Review D, 90, 024034
13	Three-dimensional local anisotropy of velocity fluctuations in the solar wind Verdini, Andrea, Grappin, R., Alexandrova, O., Franci, L., Landi, S., Matteini, L. & Papini, E., 2019, MNRAS, 486, 3006
12	Multidimensional Iterative Filtering: a new approach for investigating plasma turbulence in numerical simulations Papini, Emanuele, Cicone, Antonio, Piersanti, Mirko, Franci, Luca, Hellinger, Petr, Landi, Simone & Verdini, Andrea, 2020, Journal of Plasma Physics, 86, 871860501
11	Two-dimensional hybrid simulations of kinetic plasma turbulence: Current and vorticity vs proton temperature Franci, Luca, Hellinger, Petr, Matteini, Lorenzo, Verdini, Andrea & Landi, Simone, 2016, Solar Wind 14, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1720, p. 040003
9	A Novel Method for Estimating the Intrinsic Magnetic Field Spectrum of Kinetic-Range Turbulence Pitňa, Alexander, Šafránková, Jana, Němeček, Zdeněk, Franci, Luca & Pi, Gilbert, 2021, Atmosphere, 12, 1547
9	Characteristics of Solar Wind Fluctuations at and below Ion Scales Pitňa, Alexander, Šafránková, Jana, Němeček, Zdeněk, Franci, Luca, Pi, Gilbert & Montagud Camps, Victor, 2019, ApJ, 879, 82
8	Anisotropy of plasma turbulence at ion scales: Hall and pressure-strain effects Hellinger, Petr, Verdini, Andrea, Montagud-Camps, Victor, Franci, Luca, Papini, Emanuele, Matteini, Lorenzo & Landi, Simone, 2024, A&A, 684, A120
7	Properties of Hall-MHD Turbulence at Sub-Ion Scales: Spectral Transfer Analysis Papini, Emanuele, Hellinger, Petr, Verdini, Andrea, Landi, Simone, Franci, Luca, Montagud-Camps, Victor & Matteini, Lorenzo, 2021, Atmosphere, 12, 1632
6	A high-latitude coronal mass ejection observed by a constellation of coronagraphs: Solar Orbiter/Metis, STEREO-A/COR2, and SOHO/LASCO Zimbardo, G., Ying, B., Nisticò, G., Feng, L., Rodríguez-García, L., Panasenco, O., Andretta, V., Banerjee, D., Bemporad, A., De Leo, Y., Franci, L., Frassati, F., Habbal, S., Long, D., Magdalenic, J., Mancuso, S., Naletto, G., Perri, S., Romoli, M., Spadaro, D., Stangalini, M., Strachan, L., Susino, R., Vainio, R., Velli, M., Cohen, C. M. S., Giacalone, J., Shen, M., Telloni, D., Abbo, L., Burtovoi, A., Jerse, G., Landini, F., Nicolini, G., Pancrazzi, M., Russano, G., Sasso, C. & Uslenghi, M., 2023, A&A, 676, A48
6	Bar-mode instability suppression in magnetized relativistic stars Franci, L., De Pietri, R., Dionysopoulou, K. & Rezzolla, L., 2013, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 470, p. 012008
6	Magnetospheric Multiscale measurements of turbulent electric fields in earth's magnetosheath: How do plasma conditions influence the balance of terms in generalized Ohm's law? Lewis, Harry C., Stawarz, Julia E., Franci, Luca, Matteini, Lorenzo, Klein, Kristopher, Salem, Chadi S., Burch, James L., Ergun, Robert E., Giles, Barbara L., Russell, Christopher T. & Lindqvist, Per-Arne, 2023, Physics of Plasmas, 30, 082901
5	Quantification of the Cross-helicity Turbulent Cascade in Compressible MHD Simulations Montagud-Camps, Victor, Hellinger, Petr, Verdini, Andrea, Papini, Emanuele, Franci, Luca & Landi, Simone, 2022, ApJ, 938, 90
5	Turbulent Energy Conversion Associated With Kinetic Microinstabilities in Earth's Magnetosheath Lewis, Harry C., Stawarz, Julia E., Matteini, Lorenzo, Franci, Luca, Klein, Kristopher G., Wicks, Robert T., Salem, Chadi S., Horbury, Timothy S. & Wang, Joseph H., 2024, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, 2024GL112038
5	Statistics of magnetic reconnection and turbulence in Hall-MHD and hybrid-PIC simulations Papini, E., Franci, L., Landi, S., Hellinger, P., Verdini, , A. & Matteini, L., 2019, Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C, 42, 23
4	Numerical simulations of high cross-helicity turbulence from 0.2 to 1 AU Verdini, A., Grappin, R., Montagud-Camps, V., Landi, S., Franci, , L. & Papini, E., 2019, Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C, 42, 17
3	Plasma Turbulence in the Near-Sun and Near-Earth Solar Wind: A Comparison via Observation-Driven 2D Hybrid Simulations Franci, Luca, Papini, Emanuele, Del Sarto, Daniele, Hellinger, Petr, Burgess, David, Matteini, Lorenzo, Landi, Simone & Montagud-Camps, Victor, 2022, Universe, 8, 453
2	Flattening of the Density Spectrum in Compressible Hall-MHD Simulations Montagud-Camps, Victor, Němec, František, Šafránková, Jana, Němeček, Zdeněk, Verdini, Andrea, Grappin, Roland, Papini, Emanuele & Franci, Luca, 2021, Atmosphere, 12, 1162
2	Fluid and Kinetic Properties of the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet Fargette, Naïs, Eastwood, Jonathan P., Phan, Tai D., Matteini, Lorenzo & Franci, Luca, 2026, ApJ, 997, 174
1	Spectral anisotropies in high resolution three-dimensional simulations Landi, S., Franci, L., Papini, E., Matteini, L., Verdini, , A. & Hellinger, P., 2019, Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C, 42, 18
1	Temperature anisotropy instabilities driven by intermittent velocity shears in the solar wind Opie, Simon, Verscharen, Daniel, Chen, Christopher H. K., Owen, Christopher J., Isenberg, Philip A., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Franci, Luca & Matteini, Lorenzo, 2024, Journal of Plasma Physics, 90, 905900602
0	Evolution of ion distribution functions in ionospheric plasmas perturbed by Alfvén waves Recchiuti, Dario, Franci, Luca, Matteini, Lorenzo, Papini, Emanuele, Battiston, Roberto & Piersanti, Mirko, 2026, Journal of Plasma Physics, 92, E29
0	Polytropic Analysis of Large-scale Compressive Fluctuations in the Solar Wind: Fluid and Kinetic Behavior Ioannou, C., Nicolaou, G., Owen, C. J., Verscharen, D., Coburn, J. T. & Franci, L., 2025, ApJ, 988, 253