Publications of Romina Nikoukar

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Romina Nikoukar, 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: 0000-0002-8608-2822

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 31 (refereed: 26)
No. of citations: 183
First author papers: 9 (refereed: 8)

2026

  1. A "Valley" in Heliospheric Energetic Particle Intensities and Implications for a New Horizons Encounter with the Solar Wind Termination Shock [0]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Hill, Matthew E., Dialynas, Konstantinos, Krimigis, Stamatios M., Brown, Lawrence E., Kollmann, Peter, Decker, Robert D., Manweiler, Jerry W., Reeve, W. Spencer, Florinski, Vladimir, Zhang, Ming, Richardson, John, Opher, Merav, Giacalone, Joe, Adhikari, Laxman, Brandt, Pontus C., Carcaboso, Fernando, Cooper, John F., Elliott, Heather A., Gold, Robert, Haggerty, Dennis, Hamilton, Douglas C., Kota, Jozsef, Lario, David, Lasley, Scott, McNutt, Ralph, Jr., Mitchell, Donald G., Mostafavi, Parisa, Parker, Joel, Poppe, Andrew R., Powell, Erick, Provornikova, Elena, Singer, Kelsi N., Sokół, Justyna M., Stern, S. Alan, Verbiscer, Anne J., Wang, Bingbing & Zhao, Lingling, ApJ, 996, 135

2025

  1. The Impact of Physical Processes on the Radial Evolution of the Distant Pickup Ion Mediated Solar Wind [2]
    Adhikari, Laxman, Zank, Gary P., Shrestha, Bishwas L., Tasnim, Samira, Zhao, Lingling, Elliott, Heather, Opher, Merav, Wang, Bingbing, Le Roux, Jakobus, Pitňa, Alexander, McComas, David J., Mostafavi, Parisa, Richardson, John, Zhu, Xingyu, Wu, Yihong, Sokół, Justyna M. & Nikoukar, Romina, ApJ, 987, 182
  2. Daytime Thermospheric Wind Transients and Circulation in May 2021 [0]
    Immel, Thomas J., Oglesby, Lily, Harding, Brian J., Maute, Astrid, Wu, Yen Jung, Nikoukar, Romina & Triplett, Colin, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 130, e2025JA033729
  3. Magnetospheric Cold Plasma Diagnostics Using High Altitude GNSS Signals [0]
    Malaspina, D. M., Axelrad, P., Goldstein, J., Nikoukar, R., Rowland, D., Fantinato, S. & Miotti, E., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 130, 2024JA033426
  4. PUI Heating in the Supersonic Solar Wind [5]
    Mostafavi, Parisa, Adhikari, Laxman, Shrestha, Bishwas L., Zank, Gary P., Opher, Merav, Hill, Matthew E., Elliott, Heather A., Brandt, Pontus C., McNutt, Ralph L., McComas, David J., Poppe, Andrew R., Provornikova, Elena, Nikoukar, Romina, Kollmann, Peter, Stern, S. Alan, Singer, Kelsi N., Verbiscer, Anne & Parker, Joel, ApJ, 979, 222
  5. Large-scale Field-aligned Flows in the Heliosheath [0]
    Opher, Merav, Kornbleuth, Marc, Decker, Rob, Richardson, John, Bair, Ethan, Dialynas, Kostas, Nikoukar, Romina, Hill, Matthew E., Du, Senbei & Florinski, Vladimir, ApJ, 985, 85
  6. Termination Shock Particle Streaming Upstream at New Horizons [3]
    Powell, Erick, Opher, Merav, Bair, Ethan, Hill, Matthew, Nikoukar, Romina, Giacalone, Joe, Dialynas, Konstantinos, Richardson, John D., Brandt, Pontus C., Singer, Kelsi N., Stern, S. Alan, Provornikova, Elena, Verbiscer, Anne J., Poppe, Andrew R., Parker, Joel Wm. & New Horizons Heliospheric Team, ApJ, 978, L11

2024

  1. Source of the Observed Enhancements in Thermospheric ΣO/N2 During Two Solar Eclipses in 2023 [3]
    Cantrall, C. E., Mrak, S., Paxton, L. J., Zhang, Y., Nikoukar, R., Schaefer, R. K. & Yee, J. H., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 129, e2024JA032542
  2. Anisotropies of 40–139 keV Ions Measured beyond the Termination Shock and in the Very Local Interstellar Medium [2]
    Dialynas, Konstantinos, Krimigis, Stamatios M., Decker, Robert B., Hill, Matthew E., Nikoukar, Romina & Opher, Merav, ApJ, 974, 174

2023

  1. Understanding Magnetotail Dynamics Through Comparison of Simulated and Physical Energetic Neutral Atom Measurements [0]
    Keesee, A., Tibbetts, J., Buzulukova, N., Nikoukar, R., Katus, R., Sorathia, K., Sciola, A., Devanandan, A., Gkioulidou, M. & Merkin, V., 2023 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), p. 36
  2. Ground-based infrastructure for monitoring and characterizing intermediate-scale ionospheric irregularities at mid-latitudes [8]
    Mrak, Sebastijan, Coster, Anthea J., Groves, Keith & Nikoukar, Romina, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, 36
  3. Raising awareness on mental health in the heliophysics community [2]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Regoli, Leonardo, Halford, Alexa J., Zettergren, Matthew D., Dialynas, Konstantinos & Filwett, Rachael, Frontiers in Physics, 11, 1237166
  4. Solar wind with Hydrogen Ion charge Exchange and Large-Scale Dynamics (SHIELD) DRIVE Science Center [7]
    Opher, Merav, Richardson, John, Zank, Gary, Florinski, Vladimir, Giacalone, Joe, Sokół, Justyna M., Toth, Gabor, Buxner, Sanlyn, Kornbleuth, Marc, Gkioulidou, Matina, Nikoukar, Romina, Van der Holst, Bart, Turner, Drew, Gross, Nicholas, Drake, James, Swisdak, Marc, Dialynas, Kostas, Dayeh, Maher, Chen, Yuxi, Zieger, Bertalan, Powell, Erick, Onubogu, Chika, Ma, Xiaohan, Bair, Ethan, Elliott, Heather, Galli, Andre, Zhao, Lingling, Adhikari, Laxman, Nakanotani, Masaru, Hill, Matthew E., Mostafavi, Parisa, Du, Senbei, Guo, Fan, Reisenfeld, Daniel, Fuselier, Stephen, Izmodenov, Vladislav, Baliukin, Igor, Cummings, Alan, Miller, Jesse, Wang, Bingbing, Ghanbari, Keyvan, Kota, Jozsef, Loeb, Abraham, Burgess, Juditra, Hokanson, Sarah Chobot, Morrow, Cherilyn, Hong, Adam & Boldon, Andrea, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, 1143909

2022

  1. On the Energy Dependence of Galactic Cosmic Ray Anisotropies in the Very Local Interstellar Medium [3]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Hill, Matthew E., Brown, Lawrence, Kota, Jozsef, Decker, Robert B., Dialynas, Konstantinos, Hamilton, Douglas C., Krimigis, Stamatios M., Lasley, Scott, Roelof, Edmond C., Mitchell, J. Grant, Florinski, Vladimir., Giacalone, Joe., Richardson, John & Opher, Merav, ApJ, 934, 41
  2. Proton and Helium Ion Acceleration at Magnetotail Plasma Jets [5]
    Richard, L., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Graham, D. B., Vaivads, A., Nikoukar, R., Cohen, I. J., Turner, D. L., Fuselier, S. A. & Russell, C. T., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 127, e30430
  3. Modeling Radiation Belt Electrons With Information Theory Informed Neural Networks [11]
    Wing, Simon, Turner, Drew L., Ukhorskiy, Aleksandr Y., Johnson, Jay R., Sotirelis, Thomas, Nikoukar, Romina & Romeo, Giuseppe, Space Weather, 20, e2022SW003090
  4. A New Three-Dimensional Empirical Reconstruction Model Using a Stochastic Optimization Method [4]
    Zhu, Xun, Cohen, Ian J., Mauk, Barry H., Nikoukar, Romina, Turner, Drew L. & Torbert, Roy B., Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9, 878403

2021

  1. Evidence for Nonadiabatic Oxygen Energization in the Near Earth Magnetotail From MMS [6]
    Bingham, S. T., Nikoukar, R., Cohen, I. J., Mauk, B. H., Turner, D. L., Mitchell, D. G., Burch, J. L., Gomez, R. G., Fuselier, S. A. & Torbert, R. B., Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e91697
  2. Neptune Odyssey: A Flagship Concept for the Exploration of the Neptune-Triton System [19]
    Rymer, Abigail M., Runyon, Kirby D., Clyde, Brenda, Núñez, Jorge I., Nikoukar, Romina, Soderlund, Krista M., Sayanagi, Kunio, Hofstadter, Mark, Quick, Lynnae C., Stern, S. Alan, Becker, Tracy, Hedman, Matthew, Cohen, Ian, Crary, Frank, Fortney, Jonathan J., Vertesi, Janet, Hansen, Candy, de Pater, Imke, Paty, Carol, Spilker, Thomas, Stallard, Tom, Hospodarsky, George B., Smith, H. Todd, Wakeford, Hannah, Moran, Sarah E., Annex, Andrew, Schenk, Paul, Ozimek, Martin, Arrieta, Juan, McNutt, Ralph L., Masters, Adam, Simon, Amy A., Ensor, Susan, Apland, Clint T., Bruzzi, Jonathan, Patthoff, D. Alex, Scott, Christopher, Campo, Christian, Krupiarz, Christopher, Cochrane, Corey J., Gantz, Curt, Rodriguez, Dan, Gallagher, Dan, Hurley, Dana, Crowley, Doug, Abel, Elizabeth, Provornikova, Elena, Turtle, Elizabeth P., Clark, George, Wilkes, Jacob, Hunt, Jack, Roberts, James H., Rehm, Jeremy, Murray, Kelvin, Wolfarth, Larry, Fletcher, Leigh N., Spilker, Linda, Martin, Emily S., Parisi, Marzia, Norkus, Mike, Izenberg, Noam, Stough, Robert, Vervack, Ron J., Mandt, Kathleen, Stevenson, Kevin B., Kijewski, Seth, Cheng, Weilun, Feldman, Jay D., Allen, Gary, Prabhu, Dinesh, Dutta, Soumya, Young, Cindy & Williams, Joseph, The Planetary Science Journal, 2, 184
  3. Modeling radiation belt electrons with information theory informed neural network [0]
    Wing, Simon, Turner, Drew L., Ukhorskiy, Aleksandr Y., Johnson, Jay Robert, Sotirelis, Thomas, Nikoukar, Romina & Romeo, Giuseppe, essoar.10508583

2020

  1. Parker Solar Probe's 1st Year of Ka-band Operations [0]
    Cox, Matthew, Copeland, David, Nikoukar, Romina & Sprouse, Sean, 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference, p. 410
  2. Quantifying Weather Effects on Ka-band Communication Links: A Parker Solar Probe Study [0]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Copeland, David, Sprouse, Sean, Cox, Matthew & Kufahl, Katelyn, 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference, p. 412
  3. Solving the Space Weather Problem: A 15+ Year Roadmap to Revolutionize Space Weather Research, Protect NASA Space Assets, and Enable Robust Operations [0]
    Vourlidas, Angelos, Likar, Justin, Merkin, Viacheslav, Nikoukar, Romina, Paxton, Larry, Sotirelis, Thomas, Turner, Drew, Ukhorskiy, Aleksandr & Zhang, Yongliang, essoar.10504254

2019

  1. Plasma Blobs Associated With Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances [24]
    Kil, Hyosub, Paxton, Larry J., Jee, Geonhwa & Nikoukar, Romina, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3575

2018

  1. Statistical Study of Mercury's Energetic Electron Events as Observed by the Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer Instrument Onboard MESSENGER [3]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Lawrence, David J., Peplowski, Patrick N., Dewey, Ryan M., Korth, Haje, Baker, Daniel N. & McNutt, Ralph L., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 123, 4961

2015

  1. A novel data assimilation technique for the plasmasphere [4]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Bust, Gary & Murr, David, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 120, 8470

2012

  1. On resolution/error trade-offs in incoherent scatter radar measurements [1]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Kamalabadi, Farzad, Kudeki, Erhan & Sulzer, Michael, Radio Science, 47, RS1008

2008

  1. An efficient near-optimal approach to incoherent scatter radar parameter estimation [13]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Kamalabadi, Farzad, Kudeki, Erhan & Sulzer, Michael, Radio Science, 43, RS5007

2007

  1. Molecular ion composition measurements in the F1 region at Arecibo [16]
    Aponte, NéStor, Sulzer, Michael P., Nicolls, Michael J., Nikoukar, Romina & GonzáLez, Sixto A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A06322
  2. On the variability of mesospheric OH emission profiles [22]
    Nikoukar, Romina, Swenson, Gary R., Liu, Alan Z. & Kamalabadi, Farzad, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 112, D19109

2006

  1. High-resolution electron temperature measurements using the plasma line asymmetry [20]
    Nicolls, M. J., Sulzer, M. P., Aponte, N., Seal, R., Nikoukar, R. & González, S. A., Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18107

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