David John McComas

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2000–2017

A researcher in the Science corpus: 26 papers; trusts 10 researchers and is trusted by 5 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Astronomy and Astrophysics — 183 citations into it; #6,523 of 10,964 by trust here, #2,871 by citations
• Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics — 17 citations into it
• Statistical and Nonlinear Physics — 17 citations into it; #3,802 of 10,127 by trust here, #4,820 by citations
• Geophysics — 11 citations into it; #592 of 1,958 by trust here, #829 by citations

Whom David John McComas trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. M. Leubner
2. Constantino Tsallis
3. Eckart Marsch
4. George Livadiotis
5. T. Zurbuchen
6. V. Izmodenov
7. K. Schatten
8. Gary Zank
9. D. Reames
10. Y. Wang

Who trusts David John McComas overall

1. George Livadiotis
2. M. Owens
3. R. Forsyth
4. Y. Wang
5. V. Pierrard
6. Justin C. Kasper
7. R. Ebert
8. S. Antiochos
9. Gary Zank
10. E. Robbrecht

Papers from David John McComas's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers David John McComas trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Particle acceleration at the Sun and in the heliosphere
2. Composition of quasi‐stationary solar wind flows from Ulysses/Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer
3. IBEX—Interstellar Boundary Explorer
4. Particle acceleration and kinematics in solar flares – A Synthesis of Recent Observations and Theoretical Concepts (Invited Review)
5. Magnetosphere Imaging Instrument (MIMI) on the Cassini Mission to Saturn/Titan
6. Modeling Shock-accelerated Solar Energetic Particles Coupled to Interplanetary Alfvén Waves
7. Beyond kappa distributions: Exploiting Tsallis statistical mechanics in space plasmas
8. Intensity variation of large solar energetic particle events associated with coronal mass ejections
9. Impulsive Near-relativistic Solar Electron Events: Delayed Injection with Respect to Solar Electromagnetic Emission
10. Fundamental issues on kappa-distributions in space plasmas

Their papers

• Predicting interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) propagation delay times using the minimum variance technique (2003) — 279 citations
• Beyond kappa distributions: Exploiting Tsallis statistical mechanics in space plasmas (2009) — 309 citations
• INVARIANT KAPPA DISTRIBUTION IN SPACE PLASMAS OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM (2011) — 150 citations
• Theory and Transport of Nearly Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (2017) — 235 citations
• The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity’s First Visit to Our Star (2016) — 1,092 citations
• The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus (2016) — 734 citations
• Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISIS): Design of the Energetic Particle Investigation (2016) — 210 citations
• LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM: SIX YEARS OF DIRECT SAMPLING BY IBEX (2015) — 147 citations
• Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation: Design of the Solar Wind and Coronal Plasma Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus (2015) — 568 citations
• WEAKEST SOLAR WIND OF THE SPACE AGE AND THE CURRENT “MINI” SOLAR MAXIMUM (2013) — 172 citations
• HELIOSPHERIC STRUCTURE: THE BOW WAVE AND THE HYDROGEN WALL (2013) — 143 citations
• Understanding Kappa Distributions: A Toolbox for Space Science and Astrophysics (2013) — 362 citations
• INTERSTELLAR GAS FLOW PARAMETERS DERIVED FROM INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXPLORER-Lo OBSERVATIONS IN 2009 AND 2010: ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS (2012) — 166 citations
• SEPARATION OF THE INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXPLORER RIBBON FROM GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOM FLUX (2011) — 133 citations
• PICK-UP IONS IN THE OUTER HELIOSHEATH: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXplorer RIBBON (2010) — 185 citations
• MICROSTRUCTURE OF THE HELIOSPHERIC TERMINATION SHOCK: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOM OBSERVATIONS (2010) — 157 citations
• IBEX—Interstellar Boundary Explorer (2009) — 353 citations
• Bulk properties of the slow and fast solar wind and interplanetary coronal mass ejections measured by Ulysses: Three polar orbits of observations (2009) — 137 citations
• The IBEX-Lo Sensor (2009) — 189 citations
• Ion and neutral sources and sinks within Saturn's inner magnetosphere: Cassini results (2008) — 136 citations