First-authored, refereed papers of G. Nicolaou, ordered by citations

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of G. Nicolaou, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3623-4928

75	Long-Term Variability of the Polytropic Index of Solar Wind Protons at 1 AU Nicolaou, G., Livadiotis, G. & Moussas, X., 2014, Solar Physics, 289, 1371
52	Properties of plasma ions in the distant Jovian magnetosheath using Solar Wind Around Pluto data on New Horizons Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F. & Elliott, H. A., 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 119, 3463
46	Long-term Correlations of Polytropic Indices with Kappa Distributions in Solar Wind Plasma near 1 au Nicolaou, G. & Livadiotis, G., 2019, ApJ, 884, 52
44	Misestimation of temperature when applying Maxwellian distributions to space plasmas described by kappa distributions Nicolaou, Georgios & Livadiotis, George, 2016, Astrophysics and Space Science, 361, 359
39	Determining the Kappa Distributions of Space Plasmas from Observations in a Limited Energy Range Nicolaou, G., Livadiotis, G., Owen, C. J., Verscharen, D. & Wicks, R. T., 2018, ApJ, 864, 3
27	On the Calculation of the Effective Polytropic Index in Space Plasmas Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Wicks, Robert T., 2019, Entropy, 21, 997
27	Plasma properties in the deep jovian magnetotail Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F., Elliott, H. A. & Wilson, R. J., 2015, Planetary and Space Science, 119, 222
23	Jupiter's deep magnetotail boundary layer Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F., Elliott, H. A. & Ebert, R. W., 2015, Planetary and Space Science, 111, 116
20	The Impact of Turbulent Solar Wind Fluctuations on Solar Orbiter Plasma Proton Measurements Nicolaou, G., Verscharen, D., Wicks, R. T. & Owen, C. J., 2019, ApJ, 886, 101
16	On the Determination of Kappa Distribution Functions from Space Plasma Observations Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Wicks, Robert T., 2020, Entropy, 22, 212
15	The Polytropic Behavior of Solar Wind Protons as Observed by the Ulysses Spacecraft during Solar Minimum Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & McComas, David J., 2023, ApJ, 948, 22
15	Determining the Bulk Parameters of Plasma Electrons from Pitch-Angle Distribution Measurements Nicolaou, Georgios, Wicks, Robert, Livadiotis, George, Verscharen, Daniel, Owen, Christopher & Kataria, Dhiren, 2020, Entropy, 22, 103
14	Modeling the Plasma Flow in the Inner Heliosheath with a Spatially Varying Compression Ratio Nicolaou, G. & Livadiotis, G., 2017, ApJ, 838, 7
13	Evaluating the Performance of a Plasma Analyzer for a Space Weather Monitor Mission Concept Nicolaou, G., Wicks, R. T., Rae, I. J. & Kataria, D. O., 2020, Space Weather, 18, e2020SW002559
12	Deriving the bulk properties of solar wind electrons observed by Solar Orbiter. A preliminary study of electron plasma thermodynamics Nicolaou, G., Wicks, R. T., Owen, C. J., Kataria, D. O., Chandrasekhar, A., Lewis, G. R., Verscharen, D., Fortunato, V., Mele, G., DeMarco, R. & Bruno, R., 2021, A&A, 656, A10
11	Statistical Uncertainties of Space Plasma Properties Described by Kappa Distributions Nicolaou, Georgios & Livadiotis, George, 2020, Entropy, 22, 541
5	Significance of Bernoulli Integral Terms for the Solar Wind Protons at 1 au Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Desai, Mihir I., 2021, Applied Sciences, 11, 4643
3	Effects of background noise on fit parameters of plasma scattering angle distributions Nicolaou, Georgios, Allegrini, Frederic, Livadiotis, George & Ebert, Robert W., 2022, Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 103305
3	Artificial Polytropic Behavior of Plasmas Determined from the Application of Chi-squared Minimization Analysis to Data with Significant Statistical Uncertainty Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Ioannou, Charalambos, 2024, ApJ, 977, 168
3	Estimating the Polytropic Indices of Plasmas with Partial Temperature Tensor Measurements: Application to Solar Wind Protons at ~1 au Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Desai, Mihir I., 2021, Applied Sciences, 11, 4019
1	How does the limited resolution of space plasma analyzers affect the accuracy of space plasma measurements? Nicolaou, G., Ioannou, C., Owen, C. J., Verscharen, D., Fedorov, A. & Louarn, P., 2025, Review of Scientific Instruments, 96, 075203