A FEW SELECT RESEARCH PAPERS
(gzipped ps or pdf)

Magnetic Nature of Solar Flares

(Priest and Forbes, Astron. Astrophys. Rev., 10, 313-377, 2002)

The Nature of Blinkers and the Solar Transition Region

(Solar Physics, 205, 249-264, 2002)

A Flux Tube Tectonics Model for Solar Coronal Heating Driven by the Magnetic Carpet (pdf version)

(Priest, Heyvaerts and Title, Ap J 576, 533-551, 2002)

Current Sheets in the Sun's Corona (pdf version)

(in Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics (ed Bajer and Moffatt), p115-124, 2003)

Magnetic Topologies due to Two Bipolar Regions (pdf version)

(Beveridge, Priest and Brown, Solar Phys., submitted, 2002)

Numerical Experiments on Wave Propagation Towards a 3D Null Point due to Rotational Motion (pdf version)

(Galsgaard, Priest, and Titov, J Geophys. Res. 108, 10.1-10.9, 2003)

Linear Collapse of Spatially Linear 2D Null Points (Figs) (pdf version)

(Mellor, Titov and Priest, J Plasma Phys. 68, 221-235, 2002)

Binary Reconnection and the Heating of the Solar Corona (pdf version)

(Priest, Longcope and Titov, Ap J, 598, 667-677, 2003)

On the nature of 3D magnetic reconnection (pdf version)

(Priest, Hornig and Pontin, J Geophys. Res. 108, SSH 6.1-6.8, 2003)

Evolution of magnetic flux in an isolated reconnection process (pdf version)

(Hornig and Priest, Phys. Plasmas 10, 2712-2721, 2003)

3D reconnection of untwisted magnetic flux tubes (pdf version)

(Linton and Priest, Astrophys. J. 595, 1259-1276, 2003)

Creativity in science (pdf version)

(Proc. Conf on Creativity and Imagination (ed T Hart), 2003)

Recycling of the solar corona's magnetic field (pdf version)

(Close, Parnell, Longcope and Priest, Astrophys. J. 612, L81-L84, 2004)

Our Magnetic Sun (pdf version)

(Proc. Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, Granada, 2004)

Coronal Heating at Separators and Separatrices (pdf version)

(Priest, Longcope and Heyvaerts, Astrophys. J. 624, 1057-1071, 2005)

Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields (pdf version)

(Priest, Proc. Int. Conf. on Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields, Lindau (ed DS Innes, A. Lagg & S.K. Solanki) ESA SP-596, Dordrecht, p 47.1-47.12.

The Solar-Stellar Connection: our New Sun (pdf version)

Opening Plenary Review at Cool Stars 15, St Andrews, July 2008.

Three-dimensional null point reconnection regimes

(Priest, E. R. and Pontin, D. I., Phys. Plasmas 16, 122101, 2009).

MHD reconnection

Scholarpedia, 6(2):2371 (2011).

Complete List of Recent Papers
(on 2D Reconnection, 3D Reconnection, Topology, Coronal Heating, Prominences, Flares, and Astrophysics)