List of publications by E.P. Kontar
Last updated: October 24, 2010
Articles in referred journals:
Kontar, E. P., Brown, J.C. Emslie, A.G., Hajdas, W. Holman, G. D., Hurford, G.J., Kasparova, J., Mallik, P.C.V. Massone, A.M. Mcconnell, M.L., Piana, M., Prato, M., Schmahl, E. J., Suarez-Garcia, E. Deducing electron properties from hard X-ray observations, 2010, Space Science Review, in press
Holman, G.D., Aschwanden, M. J., Aurass, H., Battaglia, M., Grigis, P. C., Kontar, E.P., Liu, W., Saint-Hilaire, P., Zharkova, V.V. Implications of X-ray Observations for Electron Acceleration and Propagation in Solar Flares 2010, Space Science Review, in press
Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. and Hannah, I.G. The influence of albedo on the size of hard X-ray flare sources 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics, submitted
Reid, H. A. S. and Kontar, E. P., Solar Wind Density Turbulence and Solar Flare Electron Transport from the Sun to the Earth 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 721, 864-874.
Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P., and Brown, J. C. Parallel electric field generation by Alfven wave turbulence 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 519, id.A114
Bian, N. H. and Kontar, E. P. A gyrofluid description of Alfvnic turbulence and its parallel electric field, 2010, Physics of Plasmas, 17, 062308.
Kontar, E. P., Hannah, I. G., Jeffrey, N. L. S., and Battaglia, M. The sub-arcsecond hard X-ray structure of loop footpoints in a solar flare, 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 717, 250-256.
Kontar, E. P. and Jeffrey, N. L. S. Positions and sizes of X-ray solar flare sources, 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, 513, id.L2.
Temmer, M., Veronig, A. M., Kontar, E. P. Krucker, S., and, Vrnak, B. Combined STEREO/RHESSI Study of Coronal Mass Ejection Acceleration and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares, 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 712, 1410-1420
Fleishman, G. D., and Kontar, E. P. Sub-THz radiation mechanisms in solar flares, 2010, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 709, L127-L132
Brown, J. C., Turkmani, R., Kontar, E. P., MacKinnon, A. L. and Vlahos, L. Local re-acceleration and a modified thick target model of solar flare electrons, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 508, 993-1000
Hannah, I. G., Kontar, E. P., and Sirenko, O. K. The Effect of Wave-Particle Interactions on Low-Energy Cutoffs in Solar Flare Electron Spectra, 2009, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 707, L45-L50.
Prato, M., Emslie, A. G., Kontar, E. P., Massone, A.M., and Piana, M. The Location of Centroids in Photon and Electron Maps of Solar Flares 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 706, 917-922.
Massone, A. M., Emslie, A. G., Hurford, G. J.; Prato, M., Kontar, E. P., and Piana, M. Hard X-ray Imaging of Solar Flares Using Interpolated Visibilities, 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 703, 2004-2016.
Kontar, E. P., Reid, H. A. S., Onsets and spectra of impulsive solar energetic electron events observed near the Earth, 2009, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 695, L140-L144.
Kontar, E. P., Hannah, I. G. and MacKinnon, A. L., Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop, 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, 489, L57-L60.
Sullivan, J. M., Lockwood, M., Lancaster, B. S., Kontar, E. P. Ivchenko, N., Dahlgren, H. and Whiter D. K., An optical study of multiple NEIAL events driven by low energy electron precipitation, 2008, Annales Geophysicae, 26, 2435-2447.
Kontar, E. P., Dickson, E. and Kasparova, J., Low-energy cutoffs in electron spectra of solar flares: statistical survey, 2008, Solar Physics, 252, 139-147.
de Moortel, I., Browning, P., Bradshaw, S. J., Pinter, B., and Kontar, E. P., The way forward for coronal heating, 2008, Astronomy & Geophysics, 49, 3.21-3.26.
Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G. Massone, A. M. Piana, M. Brown, J. C. and Prato, M., Electron-Electron Bremsstrahlung Emission and the Inference of Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares, 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, 670, 857-861.
Piana,M., Massone, A.M., Hurford, G. J., Prato, M.,Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. and Schwartz, R.A., Electron Flux Spectral Imaging of Solar Flares Through Regularized Analysis of Hard X-Ray Source Visibilities, 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, 665, 846-855.
Krucker,S., Kontar, E. P., Christe, S. and Lin, R. P., Solar Flare Electron Spectra at the Sun and Near the Earth, 2007, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 663, L109-L112.
Brown, J.C., Kontar, E.P., and Veronig, A.M., RHESSI Results – Time For a Rethink, 2007, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics, 725, 65-80. arXiv:astro-ph/0607440
Kasparova, J., Kontar, E. P. and Brown, J. C., Hard X-ray Spectra and Positions of Solar Flares observed by RHESSI: photospheric albedo, directivity and electron spectra, 2007, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 466, 705-712.
Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C., Stereoscopic electron spectroscopy of solar hard X-ray flares with a single spacecraft, 2006, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 653, L149-L152.
Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C., Solar Flare Hard X-ray Spectra Possibly Inconsistent with the Collisional Thick-Target Model, 2006, Advances in Space Research, 38, 945-950.
Prato, M., Piana, M., Brown, J., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P., and Massone, A.M., Regularized reconstruction of the differential emission measure from solar flare hard X-ray spectra, 2006, Solar Physics, 237, 61-83.
Brown, J.C., Emslie, G., Holman, G.D., Johns-Krull, C., Kontar, E.P., Massone, A.M., Piana, M. Comparison of Algorithms for Reconstructing Electron Spectra from Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra, 2006, Astrophysical Journal, 643, 523-531.
Kontar, E.P., MacKinnon, A.L., Schwartz, R.A., and Brown, J.C. Compton backscattered and primary X-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green’s function correction for photospheric albedo, 2006, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 446, 1157-1163.
Brown, J.C. and Kontar, E.P., Problems and Progress in Flare Fast Particle Diagnostics, 2005, Advances in Space Research , 35, 1675-1682.
Kasparova, J., Karlicky, M., Kontar, E. P., Schwartz, R. A. and Dennis, B. R., Multi-wavelength analysis of high energy electrons in solar flares: a case study of August 20, 2002 flare, 2005, Solar Physics, 232, 63-86.
Kontar, E.P. and MacKinnon, A.L., Regularized Energy-Dependent Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectral Index, 2005, Solar Physics, 227, 299-310.
Galloway, R.K., MacKinnon, A.L., Kontar, E.P., and Helander P., Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high temperature source, 2005, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 438, 1107-1114.
Kontar, E.P. and Pécseli, H.L., Nonlinear wave interaction as a model for naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines in the ionosphere, 2005, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L05110
Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Piana, M., Massone, A.M., and Brown, J.C., Determination Of Electron Flux Spectra In A Solar Flare With An Augmented Regularization Method: Application To RHESSI Data, 2005, Solar Physics, 226, 317-325
Kontar, E.P., Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Brown, J.C., Generalized Regularization Techniques With Constraints For The Analysis Of Solar Bremsstrahlung X-Ray Spectra, 2004, Solar Physics, 225, 293-309
Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P., Piana, M., Prato, M., and Brown, J.C., Anisotropic Bremsstrahlung Emission and the form of Regularized Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares, 2004, The Astrophysical Journal, 613, 1233-1240.
Mel’nik, V.N, and Kontar, E.P., Plasma radio emission of beam-plasma structures in the solar corona, 2003, Solar Physics, 215, 335-341.
Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P., Krucker, S., and Lin R.P., RHESSI Hard X-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy of the Large Gamma-Ray Flare of 2002 July 23, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 595, L107-L110.
Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., and Kontar, E.P., The Determination and Use of Mean Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 595, L115-L117.
Kontar, E.P., Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., Schwartz, R.A., Smith, D.M., and Alexander, R.C., An Explanation for NonPower-Law Behavior in the Hard X-Ray Spectrum of the 2002 July 23 Solar Flare, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 595, L123-L126.
Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Brown, J.C., and Schwartz, R.A., Regularized Electron Flux Spectra in the 2002 July 23 Solar Flare, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 595, L127-L130.
Kontar, E.P., Mel’nik V.N., Weakly turbulent electron cloud transport in a plasma with an external electric field, 2003, Physics of Plasmas, 10, 2732-2737.
Conway, A.J., Brown, J.C., Eves, B.A.C., and Kontar, E., Implications of solar flare hard X-ray “knee” spectra observed by RHESSI, 2003, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 407, 725-734.
Kontar, E.P. Brown, J.C. & McArthur, G.K., Nonuniform Target Ionisation and Fitting Thick Target Electron Injection Spectra to RHESSI Data, 2002, Solar Physics, 210, 419-429.
Aschwanden, M.J., Brown, J. C., & Kontar, E.P., Chromospheric Height and Density Measurements in a Solar Flare Observed with RHESSI: Data Analysis, 2002, Solar Physics, 210, 383-405.
Brown, J.C., Aschwanden, M.J., & Kontar, E.P., Chromospheric Height and Density Measurements in a Solar Flare Observed with RHESSI: Theory, 2002, Solar Physics,210, 373-381.
Kontar, E.P., and Pécseli, H.L., Nonlinear development of electron beam driven weak turbulence in a inhomogeneous plasma, 2002, Physical Review E, 65 , 066408.
Pozhar, L.A., Kontar, E.P., and Hu, M.Z.C., Transport properties of nanosystems: Viscosity of nanofluids confined in slit nanopores, 2002, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2, 209-227.
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V. I. and Mel’nik, V.N., Dynamics of a fast maxwellian electron cloud in coronal plasma, 2001, Radio Science, 36, 1757-1764.
Kontar, E.P., Dynamics of electron beams in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma, 2001, Solar Physics, 202, 131-149.
Kontar, E.P., Numerical consideration of quasi-linear electron cloud dynamics in a plasma, 2001, Computer Physics Communications, 138, 222-233.
Kontar, E.P., Dynamics of electron beams in the solar corona plasma with density fluctuations, 2001, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 375, 629-637.
Kontar, E.P., Propagation of a fast electron cloud in a solar-like plasma of decreasing density, 2001, Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion, 43, 589-601.
Mel’nik, V.N., Kontar, E.P., and Lapshin, V.I., Propagation of maxwellian electron cloud in a plasma, 2000, Solar Physics, 196, 199-212.
Mel’nik, V.N., Kontar, E.P., To gasdynamic description of a hot electron cloud in a cold plasma, 2000, New Astronomy, 5, 35-42.
Mel’nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P., The Spread of the Hot Electron Cloud in the Solar Corona, 1999, New Astronomy, 4, 41-44.
Mel’nik, V.N., Lapshin, V.I., and Kontar, E.P., Beam-plasma structure as a nonlinear object at propagation of electron beam in a plasma, 1999, Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 44, 942-948.
Mel’nik, V.N., Lapshin, V.I., and Kontar E.P., Propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in the solar corona, 1999, Solar Physics, 184, 353-362.
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I. and Mel’nik, V.N., Numerical and analytical study of the propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in a plasma, 1998, Plasma Physics Reports,24, 772-776.
Mel’nik, V.N., and Kontar, E.P., Beam-plasma structures at propagation of electron beams in plasma, 1998, Physica Scripta, 58, 510-517.
Mel’nik, V.N., and Kontar, E.P., Dynamics of two electron beams in a plasma, 1998, Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 43, 446-454.
Mel’nik, V.N., and Kontar, E.P., Gas-dynamic description of electron beam flying-off in plasma, 1998, Journal of Plasma Physics, 60, 49-64.
Conferences proceedings, abstracts, etc:
Prato, M., Massone, A. M., Piana, M., Emslie, A. G., Hurford, G. J., Kontar, E. P., and Schwartz, R. A., A visibility-based approach using regularization for imaging-spectroscopy in solar X-ray astronomy, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 135, Issue 1, pp. 012084 (2008).
Hannah, I. G.; Kontar, E. P., Modelling Langmuir Wave Interaction with Plasma Inhomogeneities in the Flaring Solar Corona, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract SH21A-1577
Emslie, A. G., Hurford, G. J., Kontar, E.P., Massone, A. M., Piana, M., Prato, M. Xu, Y., Determining the Spatial Variation of Accelerated Electron Spectra in Solar Flares, PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT IN THE HELIOSPHERE AND BEYOND: 7th Annual International Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1039, pp. 3-10 (2008).
Massone, A.M., Piana, M., Prato, M., Emslie, A. G., Hurford, G.J., Kontar, E.P., Schwartz, R. A., Imaging spectroscopy from visibilities in the RHESSI era 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 13-20 July 2008, in Montral, Canada.,Paper number: E22-0037-08, p.1943
Kontar, E.P., Dickson, E., Kasparova, J.,Low-Energy Cut-Offs In Electron Spectra Of Solar Flares: Statistical Survey, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 13-20 July 2008, in Montral, Canada.,Paper number: E22-0041-08, p.1577
Kontar, E., Nonthermal particles at the Sun and beyond: RHESSI results, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 13-20 July 2008, in Montral, Canada.,Paper number: D21-0019-08, p.1576
Kontar, E., Implications of X-Ray Spectra for Accelerated Electrons in Solar Eruptions, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 13-20 July 2008, in Montral, Canada.,Paper number: E22-0036-08, p.1575
Kasparova, J. and Kontar, E. P., RHESSI survey of photospheric albedo and directivity of solar flare hard X-ray spectra, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 1: Cosmic Particle Acceleration, 16-17 August, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, JD01, #48
Kontar, E. P., and Brown J.C., Angular and energy distributions of energetic electrons in solar flares: results with RHESSI 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly,16 - 23 July 2006, in Beijing, China, p.1013
Emslie, G., Brown, J. C., Holman, G. D., Johns-Krull, C., Kontar, E. P., Massone, A. M., Piana, M., Comparison of Algorithms for Reconstructing Electron Spectra from Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SP21A-05
Kontar, E. P., Krucker, S., and Lin, R. P., Spectra of Solar Energetic Electrons in Flares and near Earth, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SH13A-1130
Krucker, S., Kontar, E. P., and Lin, R. P., Solar X-rays and Energetic Electrons Escaping from the Sun, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SH13A-1129
Kontar, E.P., Green’s function correction of photospheric X-ray albedo, 4-th RHESSI workshop, Meudon France, 26-28 July, 2004
Krucker, S., Lin, R. P. and Kontar, E. P. Comparing Solar Hard X-ray Emissions and Impulsive Electron Events seen at 1AU American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #SH22A-02
Kontar, E.P.,Emslie, A.G.,Piana, M., Massone, A.M., and Brown, J.C., Regularized Mean and Accelerated Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares, 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, 18 - 25 JULY 2004, E2.3-0003-04
Kontar, E.P., High Energy Flare Physics With RHESSI, Annual joint MIST/UKSP meeting, 29 March - 1 April 2004, Edinburgh, UK
Krucker, S., Lin, R.P., Kontar, E.P., Mason, G.M., Wiedenbeck, M.E., The X-ray source region of 3He-rich solar energetic particle events,American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract # SH11D-1130.
Emslie, A. G., Kontar, E. P., Krucker, S., Lin, R. P., RHESSI Hard X-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy of the July 23, 2002 Solar Flare, 34-th SPD meeting of American Astronomical Society, June, 2003, abstract #22.08
Brown, J.C., Kontar, E., MacKinnon, A. L., Aschwanden, M. J., Flare electron energy budgets - what is RHESSI telling us?, In: Solar variability: from core to outer frontiers. The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, 9 - 14 September 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. Ed. A. Wilson. ESA SP-506, Vol. 1. Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-816-6, 2002, p. 253 - 256
Aschwanden, M.J., Brown, J.C., Kontar, E.P., Chromospheric density and height measurements of the 2002-Feb-20 flare observed with RHESSI, In: Solar variability: from core to outer frontiers. The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, 9 - 14 September 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. Ed. A. Wilson. ESA SP-506, Vol. 1. Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-816-6, 2002, p. 275 - 278.
Kontar, E.P., Brown, J.C., McArthur, G.K., X-ray observations with RHESSI and collisional thick target model with nonuniform target ionisation, In: Solar variability: from core to outer frontiers. The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, 9 - 14 September 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. Ed. A. Wilson. ESA SP-506, Vol. 1. Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-816-6, 2002, p. 311 - 314.
Kontar, E.P., Pecseli, H.L., Nonlinear development of Langmuir turbulence in inhomogeneous solar coronal plasma, In: Solar variability: from core to outer frontiers. The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, 9 - 14 September 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. Ed. A. Wilson. ESA SP-506, Vol. 1. Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-816-6, 2002, p. 311 - 314.
Mel’nik, V.N.; Kontar, E.P., Plasma Emission of Beam-Plasma Structure in the Solar Corona, Planetary Radio Emissions V, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop held at Graz, Austria, April 2-4, 2001. Edited by H.O. Rucker, M.L. Kaiser, and Y. Leblanc. Wien: sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001, 479.
Kontar,E.P., Plasma inhomogeneity of solar corona and quasi-linear dynamics of energetic electron beams, CESRA workshop on Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona, Ringberg Castle, Germany, 2-6 July 2001, Workshop Programme, 15.
Kontar,E.P., Plasma density fluctuations in solar corona and Langmuir wave generation by an electron beam, 43nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of American Physical Society, Long Beach, California, October 29-November 2, 2001, Bulletin of the APS, 46, No. 8, 278
Kontar, E.P., Propagation of a beam-plasma structure in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics and the 10th International Congress of Plasma Physics, Québec City, October 23-27, 2000, Bulletin of the APS, 45, No. 7, 351
Kontar,E.P., Mel’nik, V.N. Interaction of two beam-plasma structures in a plasma, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics and the 10th International Congress of Plasma Physics, Québec City, October 23-27, 2000, Bulletin of the APS, 45, No. 7, 370
Kontar, E.P. Beam-plasma structure as a new nonlinear object, Workshop on Plasma turbulence, Anomalous Transport, and Numerical Modeling, December 5-7 2000, Risø, Denmark.
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I., and Mel’nik, V.N., Dynamics of a Hot Maxwellian Electron Cloud in Coronal Plasma, Chapman Conference on Space Based Observation at Long Wavelength, Paris, October 1998, p. 9
Kontar, E.P., and Mel’nik, V.N., Propagation & radio emission of electron beams in the solar magnetic loops, 5th open young scientist conference on astronomy and space physics, April 27-30, Kiev, 1998 Ukraine, Book of abstracts, p. 6.
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I., and Mel’nik, V.N., Numerical simulations of quasilinear two electron beam interaction in a plasma, 1998 International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory, June 2-5, Kharkov, Ukraine, Conference Proceeding, 2, 688-691
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I., and Mel’nik, V.N., A steady solution for electron beam propagating in corona plasma: numerical and analytical consideration, 22nd General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Vienna, 21-25 April 1997, Annales Geophysicae, Supplement of Volume 15, 1997
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I., and Mel’nik, V.N., Propagation of monoenergetic electron beam in solar corona: numerical simulation and analytical consideration. International Symposium on Plasma Research and Application, Jarnoltowek near Opole, Poland, June 10-12, 1997, 347-350
Kontar, E.P., and Mel’nik, V.N., Plasma emission of electron beams in the low corona, Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting, JENAM-97. 6th European and 3rd Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-5 July, 1997, p. 43.
Kontar, E.P., Lapshin, V.I., and Mel’nik, V.N., Analytical and numerical consideration of monoenergetic electron beam propagation in corona plasma, 4th Open Young Scientist Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April 9-12, Kyiv, 1997 Ukraine, Book of abstracts p. 13
Mel’nik, V.N., and Kontar, E.P., A fly off of fast electron flows generating type III bursts,Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Radio Emission from planetary magnetospheres, September 9-11, 1996, Graz, Austria, 421-438
Kontar, E.P., and Mel’nik, V.N., A gas-dynamic model of the electron beam generating type III solar radio bursts, 21st General Asambley of European Geophysical Society, 6-10 May 1996, Hague, The Netherland, The Supplement of Analeas Geophysicae, 14, 1996.
Kontar, E.P., and Mel’nik, V.N., Propagation of Electron beams in the solar magnetic loops, Proc. of 23rd European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Kiev 1996, 20C, 1321-1324.