RECENT 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.

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