2024

Kansabanik, D., Mondal, S., Oberoi, D., Chibueze, J. O., Engelbrecht, N.E., Strauss, R.D., Kontar, E.P. , Botha, G.J.J., Steyn, P.J. and Nel, A. E. (2024) Spectroscopic imaging of the sun with MeerKAT: opening a new frontier in solar physics. Astrophysical Journal, 961(1), 96. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0b7f)

Sasikumar Raja, K. et al. (2024) Erratum: “Spectral Analysis of Solar Radio Type III Bursts from 20 kHz to 410 MHz” (2022, ApJ, 924, 58). Astrophysical Journal, 960, 93. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1111)

2023

Reid, H. A.S. et al. (2023) The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) mission concept. Aerospace, 10(12), 1034. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace10121034)

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Chrysaphi, N., Zhang, P., Krupar, V., Musset, S., Maksimovic, M., Jeffrey, N. L. S., Azzollini, F. and Vecchio, A. (2023) Source positions of an interplanetary type III radio burst and anisotropic radio-wave scattering. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680, A1. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347185)

Ryan, D. F. et al. (2023) The Large Imaging Spectrometer for Solar Accelerated Nuclei (LISSAN): A next-generation solar γ-ray spectroscopic imaging instrument concept. Aerospace, 10(12), 985. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace10120985)

Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Clarkson, D. L. , Chen, X. , Chrysaphi, N. , Azzollini, F., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Gordovskyy, M. (2023) An anisotropic density turbulence model from the Sun to 1 au derived from radio observations. Astrophysical Journal, 956(2), 112. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf6c1)

Glesener, L. et al. (2023) The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3), (doi: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.78fa7c49)

Nita, G. M., Fleishman, G. D., Kuznetsov, A. A., Anfinogentov, S. A., Stupishin, A. G., Kontar, E. P. , Schonfeld, S. J., Klimchuk, J. A. and Gary, D. E. (2023) Data-constrained solar modeling with GX simulator. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(1), 6. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acd343)

Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Motorina, G. G. and Dennis, B. R. (2023) The efficiency of electron acceleration during the impulsive phase of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 947(1), L13. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/acc9b7)

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Clarkson, D. L. and Chrysaphi, N. (2023) The frequency ratio and time delay of solar radio emissions with fundamental and harmonic components. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(2), pp. 3117-3126. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad325)

Massa, P., Emslie, A. G., Hannah, I. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2023) Robust construction of differential emission measure profiles using a regularized maximum likelihood method. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 672, A120. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345883)

Clarkson, D. L. , Kontar, E. P. , Vilmer, N., Gordovskyy, M., Chen, X. and Chrysaphi, N. (2023) Solar radio spikes and type IIIb striae manifestations of subsecond electron acceleration triggered by a coronal mass ejection. Astrophysical Journal, 946(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acbd3f)

Lotz, S., Nel, A.E., Wicks, R.T., Roberts, O.W., Engelbrecht, N.E., Strauss, R.D., Botha, G.J.J., Kontar, E. P. , Pitňa, A. and Bale, S.D. (2023) The radial variation of the solar wind turbulence spectra near the kinetic break scale from Parker Solar Probe measurements. Astrophysical Journal, 942(2), 93. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca903)

2022

Kou, Y., Cheng, X., Wang, Y., Yu, S., Chen, B., Kontar, E. P. and Ding, M. (2022) Microwave imaging of quasi-periodic pulsations at flare current sheet. Nature Communications, 13, 7680. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35377-0) (PMID:36509764) (PMCID:PMC9744830)

Matthews, S. A. et al. (2022) The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star. Experimental Astronomy, 54(2-3), pp. 335-360. (doi: 10.1007/s10686-021-09798-6)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E. P. , Clarkson, D. L. , Chrysaphi, N. and Browning, P. K. (2022) Sizes and shapes of sources in solar metric radio bursts. Astrophysical Journal, 925(2), 140. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3bb7)

Sasikumar Raja, K. et al. (2022) Spectral analysis of solar radio type III bursts from 20 kHz to 410 MHz. Astrophysical Journal, 924(2), 58. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac34ed)

2021

Stores, M., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) The spatial and temporal variations of turbulence in a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), 40. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2c65)

Hadid, L. Z. et al. (2021) Solar Orbiter’s first Venus flyby: observations from the Radio and Plasma Wave instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A18. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140934)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2021) First observations and performance of the RPW instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A41. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141271)

Musset, S. et al. (2021) Simulations of radio-wave anisotropic scattering to interpret type III radio burst data from Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, STEREO, and Wind. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A34. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140998)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2021) The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument (Corrigendum). Astronomy and Astrophysics, 654, C2. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936214e)

Clarkson, D. L. , Kontar, E. P. , Gordovskyy, M., Chrysaphi, N. and Vilmer, N. (2021) First frequency-time-resolved imaging spectroscopy observations of solar radio spikes. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 917(2), L32. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac1a7d)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Fine structure of type III solar radio bursts from Langmuir wave motion in turbulent plasma. Nature Astronomy, 5(8), pp. 796-804. (doi: 10.1038/s41550-021-01370-8)

Fleishman, G. D., Kleint, L., Motorina, G. G., Nita, G. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Energy budget of plasma motions, heating, and electron acceleration in a three-loop solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 913(2), 97. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf495)

Arnold, H. et al. (2021) Electron acceleration during macroscale Magnetic reconnection. Physical Review Letters, 126(13), 135101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.135101)

Zhang, P., Wang, C. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Parametric simulation studies on the wave propagation of solar radio emission: the source size, duration, and position. Astrophysical Journal, 909(2), 195. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd8c5)

2020

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Chrysaphi, N. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Gordovskyy, M., Yan, Y. and Tan, B. (2020) Subsecond time evolution of type III solar radio burst sources at fundamental and harmonic frequencies. Astrophysical Journal, 905(1), 43. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc24e)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P. K., Inoue, S., Kontar, E. P. , Kusano, K. and Vekstein, G. E. (2020) Forward modeling of particle acceleration and transport in an individual solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 902(2), 147. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb60e)

Jeffrey, N. L.S., Saint-Hilaire, P. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) Probing solar flare accelerated electron distributions with prospective X-ray polarimetry missions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A79. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038626)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2020) The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A12. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936214)

Rodríguez-Pacheco, J. et al. (2020) The Energetic Particle Detector. Energetic particle instrument suite for the Solar Orbiter mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A7. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935287)

Zouganelis, I. et al. (2020) The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan. Translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A3. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038445)

Kuznetsov, A. A., Chrysaphi, N. , Kontar, E. P. and Motorina, G. (2020) Radio echo in the turbulent corona and simulations of solar drift-pair radio bursts. Astrophysical Journal, 898(2), 94. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba04a)

Chrysaphi, N. , Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) First observation of a type II solar radio burst transitioning between a stationary and drifting state. Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 115. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab80c1)

Borissov, A., Neukirch, T., Kontar, E. P. , Threlfall, J. and Parnell, C.E. (2020) Particle acceleration with anomalous pitch angle scattering in 3D separator reconnection. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 635, A63. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936977)

Motorina, G. G., Fleishman, G. D. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) Spatiotemporal energy partitioning in a nonthermally dominated two-loop solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 890(1), 75. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab67d1)

Krupar, V. et al. (2020) Density fluctuations in the solar wind based on type III radio bursts observed by Parker Solar Probe. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 246(2), 57. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab65bd)

2019

Zhang, P., Yu, S., Kontar, E. P. and Wang, C. (2019) On the source position and duration of a solar type III radio burst observed by LOFAR. Astrophysical Journal, 885(2), 140. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab458f)

Aschwanden, M. J. et al. (2019) Global energetics of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1332(1), 012002. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1332/1/012002)

Kuznetsov, A.A. and Kontar, E.P. (2019) First imaging spectroscopy observations of solar drift pair bursts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 631, L7. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936447)

Kontar, E. P. , Chen, X. , Chrysaphi, N. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Emslie, A. G., Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Gordovskyy, M. and Browning, P. K. (2019) Anisotropic radio-wave scattering and the interpretation of solar radio emission observations. Astrophysical Journal, 884(2), 122. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab40bb)

Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Kontar, E. P. and Fletcher, L. (2019) The role of energy diffusion in the deposition of energetic electron energy in solar and stellar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 880(2), 136. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2764)

Aschwanden, M. J., Kontar, E. P. and Jeffrey, N. L.S. (2019) Global energetics of solar flares. VIII. The low-energy cutoff. Astrophysical Journal, 881(1), 1. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2cd4)

Bradshaw, S. J., Emslie, A. G., Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E. P. (2019) Coronal loop scaling laws for various forms of parallel heat conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 880(2), 80. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab287f)

Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2019) A Fokker–Planck framework for studying the diffusion of radio burst waves in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 873(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0411)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E. , Browning, P. and Kuznetsov, A. (2019) Frequency–distance structure of solar radio sources observed by LOFAR. Astrophysical Journal, 873(1), 48. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab03d8)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E. P. and Motorina, G. (2019) Electron distribution and energy release in magnetic reconnection outflow regions during the pre-impulsive phase of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 872(2), 204. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab01c9)

Georgoulis, M. K. and Kontar, E. P. (2019) Preface: Solar physics advances from the interior to the heliosphere. Advances in Space Research, 63(4), pp. 1387-1388. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2019.01.008)

Kontar, E. P. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Emslie, A. G. (2019) Determination of the total accelerated electron rate and power using solar flare hard X-ray spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 871(2), 225. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aafad3)

Nindos, A., Kontar, E.P. and Oberoi, D. (2019) Solar physics with the Square Kilometre Array. Advances in Space Research, 63(4), pp. 1404-1424. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2018.10.023)

2018

Kontar, E.P. , Motorina, G.G., Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Tsap, Y.T., Fleishman, G.D. and Stepanov, A.V. (2018) Frequency rising sub-THz emission from solar flare ribbons. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620, A95. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834124)

Chrysaphi, N. , Kontar, E. P. , Holman, G. D. and Temmer, M. (2018) CME-driven shock and type II solar radio burst band splitting. Astrophysical Journal, 868(2), 79. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae9e5)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Spatial expansion and speeds of type III electron beam sources in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 867(2), 158. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae5d4)

Emslie, A. G., Bian, N. H. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Energy deposition by energetic electrons in a diffusive collisional transport model. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2), 158. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaceaa)

Sharykin, I.N., Kontar, E.P. and Kuznetsov, A.A. (2018) LOFAR observations of fine spectral structure dynamics in type IIIb radio bursts. Solar Physics, 293(8), 115. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-018-1333-2)

Kolotkov, D. Y., Nakariakov, V. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Origin of the modulation of the radio emission from the solar corona by a fast magnetoacoustic wave. Astrophysical Journal, 861(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac77e)

Kontar, E. P. and Nindos, A. (2018) Combined radio and space-based solar observations: from techniques to new results – preface. Solar Physics, 293(6), 90. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-018-1309-2)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Solar type III radio burst time characteristics at LOFAR frequencies and the implications for electron beam transport. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 614, A69. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732298)

Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Kontar, E.P. , Zaslavsky, A., Santolik, O., Soucek, J., Kruparova, O., Eastwood, J.P. and Szabo, A. (2018) Interplanetary type III bursts and electron density fluctuations in the solar wind. Astrophysical Journal, 857(2), 82. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab60f)

Stackhouse, D. J. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Spatially inhomogeneous acceleration of electrons in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 612, A64. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730708)

Chen, X., Kontar, E. P. , Yu, S., Yan, Y., Huang, J. and Tan, B. (2018) Fine structures of solar radio type III bursts and their possible relationship with coronal density turbulence. Astrophysical Journal, 856(1), 73. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa9bf)

Musset, S., Kontar, E.P. and Vilmer, N. (2018) Diffusive transport of energetic electrons in the solar corona: X-ray and radio diagnostics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 610, A6. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731514)

Kontar, E.P. , Yu, S., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Alcock, B. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Melnik, V.N., Bian, N.H. and Subramanian, P. (2018) Publisher Correction: Imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures. Nature Communications, 9, 146. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02464-6) (PMID:29323123) (PMCID:PMC5765264)

Bian, N., Emslie, A. G., Horne, D. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Heating and cooling of coronal loops with turbulent suppression of parallel heat conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 852(2), 127. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f29)

Zucca, P. et al. (2018) Shock location and CME 3D reconstruction of a solar type II radio burst with LOFAR. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 615, A89. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732308)

2017

Kontar, E.P. , Yu, S., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Alcock, B. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Melnik, V.N., Bian, N.H. and Subramanian, P. (2017) Imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures. Nature Communications, 8, 1515. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01307-8) (PMID:29142220) (PMCID:PMC5688146)

Casadei, D., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Measuring X-ray anisotropy in solar flares. Prospective stereoscopic capabilities of STIX and MiSolFA. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A2. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730629)

James, T., Subramanian, P. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Small electron acceleration episodes in the solar corona. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), pp. 89-99. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1460)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Imaging spectroscopy of type U and J solar radio bursts with LOFAR. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A141. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730701)

Borissov, A., Kontar, E.P. , Threlfall, J. and Neukirch, T. (2017) Particle acceleration with anomalous pitch angle scattering in 2D magnetohydrodynamic reconnection simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 605, A73. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731183)

Lyubchyk, O., Kontar, E.P. , Voitenko, Y.M., Bian, N.H. and Melrose, D.B. (2017) Solar plasma radio emission in the presence of imbalanced turbulence of kinetic-scale Alfvén waves. Solar Physics, 292(9), 117. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-017-1140-1)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P. K. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Polarisation of microwave emission from reconnecting twisted coronal loops. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 604, A116. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629334)

Kontar, E.P. , Perez, J.E., Harra, L.K., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Bian, N.H. and Dennis, B.R. (2017) Turbulent kinetic energy in the energy balance of a solar flare. Physical Review Letters, 118(15), 155101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.155101) (PMID:28452537)

Aschwanden, M. J. et al. (2017) Global energetics of solar flares. V. energy closure in flares and coronal mass ejections. Astrophysical Journal, 836(1), p. 17. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/17)

Bian, N. H., Emslie, A. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) The role of diffusion in the transport of energetic electrons during solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 835(2), 262. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/262)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Langmuir wave electric fields induced by electron beams in the heliosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 598, A44. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629697)

Christe, S. et al. (2017) Exploring impulsive solar magnetic energy release and particle acceleration with focused hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy. Technical Report. Next Generation Solar Physics Mission. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1701.00792).

2016

Scullion, E., Rouppe van der Voort, L., Antolin, P., Wedemeyer, S., Vissers, G., Kontar, E.P. and Gallagher, P.T. (2016) Observing the formation of flare-driven coronal rain. Astrophysical Journal, 833(2), 184. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/184)

Bian, N. H., Watters, J. M., Kontar, E. P. and Emslie, A. G. (2016) Anomalous cooling of coronal loops with turbulent suppression of thermal conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/76)

Aschwanden, M. J., Holman, G., O’Flannagain, A., Caspi, A., McTiernan, J. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2016) Global energetics of solar flares. III. Nonthermal energies. Astrophysical Journal, 832(1), 27. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/27)

Huang, J., Kontar, E. P. , Nakariakov, V. M. and Gao, G. (2016) Quasi-periodic acceleration of electrons in the flare on 2012 July 19. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), 119. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/119)

Tan, B.L., Karlický, M., Mészárosová, H., Kashapova, L., Huang, J., Yan, Y. and Kontar, E.P. (2016) Diagnosing the source region of a solar burst on 26 September 2011 by using microwave type-III pairs. Solar Physics, 291(8), pp. 2407-2418. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-016-0986-y)

Fleishman, G. D., Nita, G. M., Kontar, E. P. and Gary, D. E. (2016) Narrowband gyrosynchrotron bursts: probing electron acceleration in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 826(1), 38. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/38)

Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. and Emslie, A. G. (2016) Suppression of parallel transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas and its impact on the non-thermal and thermal aspects of solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 824(2), 78. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/824/2/78)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E.P. and Browning, P.K. (2016) Plasma motions and non-thermal line broadening in flaring twisted coronal loops. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 589, A104. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527249)

Tsap, Y. T., Smirnova, V. V., Morgachev, A. S., Motorina, G. G., Kontar, E. P. , Nagnibeda, V. G. and Strekalova, P. V. (2016) On the origin of 140GHz emission from the 4 July 2012 solar flare. Advances in Space Research, 57(7), pp. 1449-1455. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.12.037)

Wedemeyer, S. et al. (2016) Solar science with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array—a new view of our sun. Space Science Reviews, 200(1), pp. 1-73. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-015-0229-9)

Yoon, P.H., Ziebell, L.F., Kontar, E.P. and Schlickeiser, R. (2016) Weak turbulence theory for collisional plasmas. Physical Review E, 93(3), 033203. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.033203) (PMID:27078471)

Tigik, S.F., Ziebell, L.F., Yoon, P.H. and Kontar, E. (2016) Two dimensional time evolution of beam-plasma instability in the presence of binary collisions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 586, A19. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527271)

2015

Wedemeyer, S. et al. (2015) SSALMON: The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network. Advances in Space Research, 56(12), pp. 2679-2692. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.05.027)

Battaglia, M., Motorina, G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Multithermal representation of the kappa-distribution of solar flare electrons and application to simultaneous X-ray and EUV observations. Astrophysical Journal, 815(1), p. 73. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/815/1/73)

Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Kontar, E. P. and Dennis, B. R. (2015) High-temperature differential emission measure and altitude variations in the temperature and density of solar flare coronal X-ray sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 584, A89. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526665)

Motorina, G. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Differential emission measure and electron distribution function reconstructed from RHESSI and SDO observations. Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 55(7), pp. 995-999. (doi: 10.1134/S0016793215070154)

Vanninathan, K., Veronig, A. M., Dissauer, K., Madjarska, M. S., Hannah, I. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Coronal response to an EUV wave from DEM analysis. Astrophysical Journal, 812(2), 173. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/173)

Kontar, E. P. , Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Emslie, A. G. and Bian, N. H. (2015) Collisional relaxation of electrons in a warm plasma and accelerated nonthermal electron spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 809(1), 35. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/35)

Krupar, V., Kontar, E. P. , Soucek, J., Santolik, O., Maksimovic, M. and Kruparova, O. (2015) On the speed and acceleration of electron beams triggering interplanetary type III radio bursts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 580, A137. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425308)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Stopping frequency of type III solar radio bursts in expanding magnetic flux tubes. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 577, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425309)

Nita, G. M., Fleishman, G. D., Kuznetsov, A. A., Kontar, E. P. and Gary, D. E. (2015) Three-dimensional radio and x-ray modeling and data analysis software: revealing flare complexity. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), 236. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/236)

Kuznetsov, A.A. and Kontar, E.P. (2015) Spatially resolved energetic electron properties for the 21 May 2004 flare from radio observations and 3D simulations. Solar Physics, 290(1), pp. 79-93. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-014-0530-x)

Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G. and Bian, N. H. (2015) The collisional relaxation of electrons in hot flaring plasma and inferring the properties of solar flare accelerated electrons from X-ray observations. In: 14th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Linear and Nonlinear Particle Energization throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond, Tampa, FL, USA, 20-24 Apr 2015, (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/642/1/012013)

Nakariakov, V. M., Bisi, M. M., Browning, P. K., Maia, D., Kontar, E. P. , Oberoi, D., Gallagher, P. T., Cairns, I. H. and Ratcliffe, H. (2015) Solar and Heliospheric Physics with the Square Kilometre Array. In: Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14), Giardini Naxos, Italy, 9-13 June 2014, p. 169.

2014

Bian, N. H., Emslie, A. G., Stackhouse, D. J. and Kontar, E. P. (2014) The formation of kappa-distribution accelerated electron populations in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 796(2), 142. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/142)

Ratcliffe, H., Kontar, E. P. and Reid, H. A. S. (2014) Large-scale simulations of solar type III radio bursts: flux density, drift rate, duration, and bandwidth. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 572, A111. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423731)

Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Santolik, O., Kontar, E.P. , Cecconi, B., Hoang, S., Kruparova, O., Soucek, J., Reid, H. and Zaslavsky, A. (2014) Statistical survey of Type III radio bursts at long wavelengths observed by the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)/Waves Instruments: radio flux density variations with frequency. Solar Physics, 289(8), pp. 3121-3135. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-014-0522-x)

Reid, H. A.S. , Vilmer, N. and Kontar, E. P. (2014) The low-high-low trend of Type III radio burst starting frequencies and solar flare hard X-rays. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 567, A85. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321973)

Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. and Ratcliffe, H. (2014) Resonance broadening due to particle scattering and mode coupling in the quasi-linear relaxation of electron beams. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 119(6), pp. 4239-4255. (doi: 10.1002/2013JA019664)

Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Kontar, E. P. , Bian, N. H. and Emslie, A. G. (2014) On the variation of solar flare coronal X-ray source sizes with energy. Astrophysical Journal, 787(1), 86. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/86)

Ratcliffe, H. and Kontar, E.P. (2014) Plasma radio emission from inhomogeneous collisional plasma of a flaring loop. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 562, A57. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322263)

Kontar, E.P. , Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Vilmer, N. (2014) Turbulent pitch-angle scattering and diffusive transport of hard x-ray-producing electrons in flaring coronal loops. Astrophysical Journal, 780(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/780/2/176)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P.K., Kontar, E.P. and Bian, N.H. (2014) Particle acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted loops in a stratified atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 561, A72. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321715)

Skinner, G.K., Dennis, B.R., Krizmanic, J.F. and Kontar, E.P. (2014) Science enabled by high precision inertial formation flying. International Journal of Space Science and Engineering, 1(4), pp. 331-348. (doi: 10.1504/IJSPACESE.2013.059271)

2013

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Electron distribution functions in solar flares from combined x-ray and extreme-ultraviolet observations. Astrophysical Journal, 779(2), p. 107. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/107)

Harra, L.K., Matthews, S., Culhane, J.L., Cheung, M.C.M., Kontar, E.P. and Hara, H. (2013) The location of non-thermal velocity in the early phases of large flares—revealing pre-eruption flux ropes. Astrophysical Journal, 774(2), p. 122. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/122)

Reid, H.A.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Evolution of the solar flare energetic electrons in the inhomogeneous inner heliosphere. Solar Physics, 285(1-2), pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0013-x)

Dickson, E.C.M. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Measurements of electron anisotropy in solar flares using albedo with RHESSI X-ray data. Solar Physics, 284(2), pp. 405-425. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0178-3)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P.K., Kontar, E.P. and Bian, N.H. (2013) Effect of collisions and magnetic convergence on electron acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted solar flare loops. Solar Physics, 284(2), pp. 489-498. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0124-4)

Fleishman, G.D., Kontar, E.P. , Nita, G.M. and Gary, D.E. (2013) Probing dynamics of electron acceleration with radio and x-ray spectroscopy, imaging, and timing in the 2002 april 11 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 768(2), p. 190. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/768/2/190)

Hannah, I.E. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Multi-thermal dynamics and energetics of a coronal mass ejection in the low solar atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 553, A10. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219727)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Stochastic acceleration by multi-island contraction during turbulent magnetic reconnection. Physical Review Letters, 110(15), 151101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.151101) (PMID:25167241)

Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Temporal variations of x-ray solar flare loops: length, corpulence, position, temperature, plasma pressure, and spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 766(2), Art. 75. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/766/2/75)

Simoes, P. J. A. and Kontar, E. P. (2013) Implications for electron acceleration and transport from non-thermal electron rates at looptop and footpoint sources in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 551, A135. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220304)

Hannah, I.G. , Kontar, E.P. and Reid, H.A.S. (2013) Effect of turbulent density-fluctuations on wave-particle interactions and solar flare X-ray spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 550, A51. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220462)

2012

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) RHESSI and SDO/AIA observations of the chromospheric and coronal plasma parameters during a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 760(2), Art. 142. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/2/142)

Ratcliffe, H., Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Density fluctuations and the acceleration of electrons by beam-generated langmuir waves in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 761(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/176)

Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) A classification scheme for turbulent acceleration processes in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 754(2), Art. 103. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/103)

Karlický, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Electron acceleration during three-dimensional relaxation of an electron beam-return current plasma system in a magnetic field. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 544, A148. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219400)

Guo, J., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Benvenuto, F., Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2012) Determination of the acceleration region size in a loop-structured solar flare. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 543, A53. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219341)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. , Fletcher, L. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2012) Numerical simulations of chromospheric hard X-ray source sizesin solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 752(1), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/4)

Matthews, S.A. et al. (2012) Solar particle acceleration radiation and kinetics (SPARK). Experimental Astronomy, 33(2-3), pp. 237-269. (doi: 10.1007/s10686-011-9260-3)

Hannah, I.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Differential emission measures from the regularized inversion of Hinode and SDO data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117576)

Kontar, E.P. , Ratcliffe, H. and Bian, N.H. (2012) Wave-particle interactions in non-uniform plasma and the interpretation of hard X-ray spectra in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A43. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118216)

2011

Krucker, S., Kontar, E.P. , Christe, S., Glesener, L. and Lin, R.P. (2011) Electron acceleration associated with solar jets. Astrophysical Journal, 742(2), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/82)

Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Spatially resolved hard X-ray polarization in solar flares: effects of Compton scattering and bremsstrahlung. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 536, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117987)

Krucker, S., Hudson, H.S. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. , Benz, A.O., Csillaghy, A. and Lin, R.P. (2011) High-resolution imaging of solar flare ribbons and its implication on the thick-target beam model. Astrophysical Journal, 739(2), p. 96. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/739/2/96)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Height structure of X-ray, EUV, and white-light emission in a solar flare. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 533, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117605)

Holman, G.D., Aschwanden, M.J., Aurass, H., Battaglia, M., Grigis, P.C., Kontar, E.P. , Liu, W., Saint-Hilaire, P. and Zharkova, V.V. (2011) Implications of X-ray observations for electron acceleration and propagation in solar flares. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 107-166. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-010-9680-9)

Kontar, E.P. et al. (2011) Deducing electron properties from hard X-ray observations. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 301-355. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-011-9804-x)

Zharkova, V.V. et al. (2011) Recent advances in understanding particle acceleration processes in solar flares. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 357-420. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-011-9803-y)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Hard X-Ray footpoint sizes and positions as diagnostics of flare accelerated energetic electrons in the low solar atmosphere. Astrophysical Journal, 735(1), p. 42. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/42)

Inglis, A.R., Zimovets, I.V., Dennis, B.R., Kontar, E.P. , Nakariakov, V.M., Struminsky, A.B. and Tolbert, A.K. (2011) Instrumental oscillations in RHESSI count rates during solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016322)

Hannah, I.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) The spectral difference between solar flare HXR coronal and footpoint sources due to wave-particle interactions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 529, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015710)

Reid, H.A.S. , Vilmer, N. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Characteristics of the flare acceleration region derived from simultaneous hard X-ray and radio observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 529, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016181)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. and Bian, N.H. (2011) Acceleration, magnetic fluctuations, and cross-field transport of energetic electrons in a solar flare loop. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 730, (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/730/2/L22)

Fleishman, G.D., Kontar, E.P. , Nita, G.M. and Gary, D.E. (2011) A cold, tenuous solar flare: acceleration without heating. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 731(1), (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/731/1/L19)

Guo, J., Liu, S., Fletcher, L. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Relationship between hard and soft X-ray emission components of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 728(1), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/4)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. and Hannah, I.G. (2011) The influence of albedo on the size of hard X-ray flare sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 526, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014798)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Parallel electric field amplification by phase mixing of Alfven waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 527, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015385)

Bian, N.H., Kontar, E.P. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2011) Turbulent cross-field transport of non-thermal electrons in coronal loops: theory and observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 535(A18), (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117574)

2010

Reid, H.A.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) Solar wind density turbulence and solar flare electron transport from the Sun to the Earth. Astrophysical Journal, 721(1), pp. 864-874. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/721/1/864)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Battaglia, M. (2010) The sub-arcsecond hard x-ray structure of loop footpoints in a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 717(1), pp. 250-256. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/717/1/250)

Temmer, M., Veronig, A.N., Kontar, E.P. , Krucker, S. and Vrsnak, B. (2010) Combined stereo/Rhessi study of coronal mass ejection acceleration and particle acceleration in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 712(2), pp. 1410-1420. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/712/2/1410)

Kontar, E.P. and Jeffrey, N.L.S. (2010) Positions and sizes of X-ray solar flare sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 513, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014066)

Fleishman, G.D. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) Sub-THz radiation mechanisms in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 709(2), pp. 127-132. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/709/2/L127)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) A gyrofluid description of Alfvenic turbulence and its parallel electric field. Physics of Plasmas, 17(6), (doi: 10.1063/1.3439682)

Bian, N.H., Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2010) Parallel electric field generation by Alfvén wave turbulence. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 519, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014048)

2009

Hannah, I.G., Kontar, E.P. and Sirenko, O.K. (2009) The effect of wave-particle interactions on low-energy cutoffs in solar flare electron spectra. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 707(1), pp. 45-50. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/L45)

Brown, J.C., Turkmani, R., Kontar, E.P. , MacKinnon, A.L. and Vlahos, L. (2009) Local re-acceleration and a modified thick target model of solar flare electrons. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508(2), pp. 993-1000. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913145)

Prato, M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2009) The location of centroids in photon and electron maps of solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 706(1), pp. 917-922. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/917)

Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Prato, M., Kontar, E.P. and Piana, M. (2009) Hard X-ray imaging of solar flares using interpolated visibilities. Astrophysical Journal, 703(2), pp. 2004-2016. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/2004)

Prato, M., Piana, M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Kontar, E.P. and Massone, A.M. (2009) A regularized visibility-based approach to astronomical imaging spectroscopy. SIAM: Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2(3), pp. 910-930. (doi: 10.1137/090746355)

Kontar, E.P. and Reid, H.A.S. (2009) Onsets and spectra of impulsive solar energetic electron events observed near the Earth. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 695(2), pp. 140-144. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/L140)

2008

De Moortel, I., Browning, P.K., Bradshaw, S.J., Pintér, B. and Kontar, E.P. (2008) The way forward for coronal heating. Astronomy and Geophysics, 49(3), pp. 21-26. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49321.x)

Kontar, E.P., Dickson, E. and Kasparova, J. (2008) Low-energy cutoffs in electron spectra of solar flares: Statistical survey. Solar Physics, 252(1), pp. 139-147. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-008-9249-x)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2008) Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 489(3), L57-L60. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810719)

Prato, M., Massone, A.M., Piana, M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Kontar, E.P. and Schwartz, R.A. (2008) A visibility-based approach using regularization for imaging-spectroscopy in solar X-ray astronomy. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 135, (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/135/1/012084)

Sullivan, J.M., Lockwood, M., Lanchester, B.S., Kontar, E.P. , Ivchenko, N., Dahlgren, H. and Whiter, D.K. (2008) An optical study of multiple NEIAL events driven by low energy electron precipitation. Annales Geophysicae, 26(8), pp. 2435-2447. (doi: 10.5194/angeo-26-2435-2008)

2007

Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Hurford, G.J., Prato, M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. and Schwartz, R.A. (2007) Electron flux spectral imaging of solar flares through regularized analysis of hard X-ray source visibilities. Astrophysical Journal, 665, pp. 846-855. (doi: 10.1086/519518)

Krucker, S., Kontar, E.P. , Christe, S. and Lin, R.P. (2007) Solar flare electron spectra at the sun and near the earth. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 663(2), L109. (doi: 10.1086/519373)

Brown, J.C., Kontar, E.P. and Veronig, A.M. (2007) RHESSI results - time for a rethink? In: Klein, K.L. and MacKinnon, A.L. (eds.) The High Energy Solar Corona: Waves, Eruptions, Particles. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 725. Springer, pp. 65-80. ISBN 9783540715696 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71570-2_4)

Kašparová, J., Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2007) Hard X-ray spectra and positions of solar flares observed by RHESSI: photospheric albedo, directivity and electron spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 466, pp. 705-712. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066689)

Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Massone, A.M., Piana, M., Brown, J.C. and Prato, M. (2007) Electron-electron bremsstrahlung emission and the inference of electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 670(1), pp. 857-861. (doi: 10.1086/521977)

2006

Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Stereoscopic electron spectroscopy of solar hard x-ray flares with a single spacecraft. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 653(2), L149-L152. (doi: 10.1086/510586)

Prato, M., Piana, M., Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. and Massone, A.M. (2006) Regularized reconstruction of the differential emission measure from solar flare hard X-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 237(1), pp. 61-83. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-006-0029-1)

Brown, J.C., Emslie, G., Holman, G.D., Johns-Krull, C.M., Kontar, E.P. , Lin, R.P., Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2006) Evaluation of algorithms for reconstructing electron spectra from their bremsstrahlung hard X-Ray spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 643, pp. 523-531. (doi: 10.1086/501497)

Kontar, E.P. , MacKinnon, A.L. , Schwartz, R.A. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Compton backscattered and primary x-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 446, pp. 1157-1163. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053672)

Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Solar flare hard X-ray spectra possibly inconsistent with the collisional thick target model. Advances in Space Research, 38(5), pp. 945-950. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.029)

2005

Kašparová, J., Karlicky, M., Kontar, E.P., Schwartz, R.A. and Dennis, B.R. (2005) Multi-wavelength analysis of high-energy electrons in solar flares: a case study of the August 20, 2002 flare. Solar Physics, 232(1-2), pp. 63-86. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-1581-9)

Kontar, E.P. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2005) Regularized energy-dependent solar flare hard x-Ray spectral index. Solar Physics, 227(2), pp. 299-310. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-1101-y)

Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Piana, M., Massone, A.M. and Brown, J.C. (2005) Determination of electron flux spectra in a solar flare with an augmented regularization method: application to RHESSI data. Solar Physics, 226(2), pp. 317-325. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-7150-4)

Brown, J.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2005) Problems and progress in flare fast particle diagnostics. Advances in Space Research, 35(10), pp. 1675-1682. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.020)

Galloway, R.K., MacKinnon, A.L. , Kontar, E.P. and Helander, P. (2005) Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high temperature coronal X-ray source. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 438(3), pp. 1107-1114. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042137)

Kontar, E.P. and Pécseli, H.L. (2005) Nonlinear wave interactions as a model for naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines in the ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L05110), (doi: 10.1029/2004GL022182)

2004

Kontar, E.P., Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G. and Brown, J.C. (2004) Generalized regularization techniques with constraints for the analysis of solar bremsstrahlung x-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 225(2), pp. 293-309. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-004-4140-x)

Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Piana, M., Prato, M. and Brown, J.C. (2004) Anisotropic bremsstrahlung emission and the form of regularized electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 613(2), pp. 1233-1240. (doi: 10.1086/423127)

2003

Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) The determination and use of mean electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2(2)), L115 -L117. (doi: 10.1086/378169)

Piana, M., Massone, A. M., Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Brown, J. C. and Schwartz, R. A. (2003) Regularized electron flux spectra in the 2002 July 23 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2), L127 -L130. (doi: 10.1086/378171)

Mel'Nik, V.V. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) Plasma radio emission of beam-plasma structures in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 215(2), pp. 335-341. (doi: 10.1023/A:1025689116449)

Kontar, E.P. and Mel'nik, V.N. (2003) Weakly turbulent electron cloud transport in a plasma with an external electric field. Physics of Plasmas, 10, pp. 2732-2737. (doi: 10.1063/1.1581881)

Conway, A.J., Brown, J.C., Eves, B.A.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) Implications of solar flare hard X-ray "knee" spectra observed by RHESSI. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 407(2), pp. 725-734. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030897)

Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P., Krucker, S. and Lin, R.P. (2003) RHESSI hard x-ray imaging spectroscopy of the large gamma-ray flare of 2002 July 23. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 595(2), L107-L110. (doi: 10.1086/378931)

Kontar, E.P., Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., Schwartz, R.A., Smith, D.M. and Alexander, R.C. (2003) An explanation for non-power-law behavior in the hard X-ray spectrum of the 2002 July 23 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2), L123 -L126.

2002

Pozhar, L.A., Kontar, E.P. and Hu, M.Z. (2002) Transport properties of nanosystems: viscosity of nanofluids confined in slit nanopores. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2(2), pp. 209-227. (doi: 10.1166/jnn.2002.088)

Aschwanden, M.J., Brown, J.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2002) Chromospheric height and density measurements in a solar flare observed with RHESSI - II - Data analysis. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 383 -405. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022472319619)

Brown, J.C., Aschwanden, M.J. and Kontar, E.P. (2002) Chromospheric height and density measurements in a solar flare observed with RHESSI - I - Theory. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 373 -381. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022469402781)

Kontar, E. (2002) Quantitative evaluation of massive sulfide ore formation. Geology of Ore Deposits, 44(6), pp. 474-485.

Kontar, E.P. (2002) Nonlinear development of electron-beam-driven weak turbulence in an inhomogeneous plasma. Physical Review E, 65(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.066408)

Kontar, E.P. , Brown, J.C. and McArthur, G.K. (2002) Nonuniform target ionization and fitting thick target electron injection spectra to RHESSI data. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 419 -429. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022494318540)

2001

Kontar, E.P. , Mel'nik, V.N. and Lapshin, V.I. (2001) Dynamics of a fast Maxwellian electron cloud in coronal plasma. Radio Science, 36(6), pp. 1757-1764. (doi: 10.1029/2000RS002453)

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Numerical consideration of quasilinear electron cloud dynamics in plasma. Computer Physics Communications, 138(3), pp. 222-233. (doi: 10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00214-4)

Kontar, E. (2001) Propagation of a fast electron cloud in a solar-like plasma of decreasing density. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 43(4), pp. 589-601.

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Dynamics of electron beams in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma. Solar Physics, 202(1), pp. 131-149. (doi: 10.1023/A:1011894830942)

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Dynamics of electron beams in the solar corona plasma with density fluctuations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 375, pp. 629-637. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010807)

2000

Mel'nik, V.N., Kontar, E.P. and Lapshin, V.I. (2000) Propagation of a Maxwellian electron cloud in a plasma. Solar Physics, 196(1), pp. 199-212. (doi: 10.1023/A:1005282324985)

Mel'nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (2000) To gasdynamic description of a hot electron cloud in a cold plasma. New Astronomy, 5(1), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1016/S1384-1076(00)00004-X)

1999

Mel'nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1999) The spread of the hot electron cloud in the solar corona. New Astronomy, 4(1), pp. 41-44. (doi: 10.1016/S1384-1076(98)00044-X)

Mel'nik, V.N., Lapshin, V. and Kontar, E.P. (1999) Propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 184(2), pp. 353-362. (doi: 10.1023/A:1005191910544)

1998

Kontar, E.P. , Lapshin, V.I. and Mel'Nik, V.N. (1998) Numerical and analytical study of the propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in a plasma. Plasma Physics Reports, 24, pp. 772-776.

Mel'Nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1998) Gasdynamic description of electron-beam flying-off in a plasma. Journal of Plasma Physics, 60(1), pp. 49-64. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377898006539)

Mel’nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1998) Beam-plasma structures at propagation of electron beams in plasma. Physica Scripta, 58(5), pp. 510-517. (doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/58/5/015)

Articles

Kansabanik, D., Mondal, S., Oberoi, D., Chibueze, J. O., Engelbrecht, N.E., Strauss, R.D., Kontar, E.P. , Botha, G.J.J., Steyn, P.J. and Nel, A. E. (2024) Spectroscopic imaging of the sun with MeerKAT: opening a new frontier in solar physics. Astrophysical Journal, 961(1), 96. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0b7f)

Sasikumar Raja, K. et al. (2024) Erratum: “Spectral Analysis of Solar Radio Type III Bursts from 20 kHz to 410 MHz” (2022, ApJ, 924, 58). Astrophysical Journal, 960, 93. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1111)

Reid, H. A.S. et al. (2023) The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) mission concept. Aerospace, 10(12), 1034. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace10121034)

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Chrysaphi, N., Zhang, P., Krupar, V., Musset, S., Maksimovic, M., Jeffrey, N. L. S., Azzollini, F. and Vecchio, A. (2023) Source positions of an interplanetary type III radio burst and anisotropic radio-wave scattering. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680, A1. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347185)

Ryan, D. F. et al. (2023) The Large Imaging Spectrometer for Solar Accelerated Nuclei (LISSAN): A next-generation solar γ-ray spectroscopic imaging instrument concept. Aerospace, 10(12), 985. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace10120985)

Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Clarkson, D. L. , Chen, X. , Chrysaphi, N. , Azzollini, F., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Gordovskyy, M. (2023) An anisotropic density turbulence model from the Sun to 1 au derived from radio observations. Astrophysical Journal, 956(2), 112. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf6c1)

Glesener, L. et al. (2023) The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3), (doi: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.78fa7c49)

Nita, G. M., Fleishman, G. D., Kuznetsov, A. A., Anfinogentov, S. A., Stupishin, A. G., Kontar, E. P. , Schonfeld, S. J., Klimchuk, J. A. and Gary, D. E. (2023) Data-constrained solar modeling with GX simulator. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(1), 6. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acd343)

Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Motorina, G. G. and Dennis, B. R. (2023) The efficiency of electron acceleration during the impulsive phase of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 947(1), L13. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/acc9b7)

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Clarkson, D. L. and Chrysaphi, N. (2023) The frequency ratio and time delay of solar radio emissions with fundamental and harmonic components. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(2), pp. 3117-3126. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad325)

Massa, P., Emslie, A. G., Hannah, I. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2023) Robust construction of differential emission measure profiles using a regularized maximum likelihood method. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 672, A120. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345883)

Clarkson, D. L. , Kontar, E. P. , Vilmer, N., Gordovskyy, M., Chen, X. and Chrysaphi, N. (2023) Solar radio spikes and type IIIb striae manifestations of subsecond electron acceleration triggered by a coronal mass ejection. Astrophysical Journal, 946(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acbd3f)

Lotz, S., Nel, A.E., Wicks, R.T., Roberts, O.W., Engelbrecht, N.E., Strauss, R.D., Botha, G.J.J., Kontar, E. P. , Pitňa, A. and Bale, S.D. (2023) The radial variation of the solar wind turbulence spectra near the kinetic break scale from Parker Solar Probe measurements. Astrophysical Journal, 942(2), 93. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca903)

Kou, Y., Cheng, X., Wang, Y., Yu, S., Chen, B., Kontar, E. P. and Ding, M. (2022) Microwave imaging of quasi-periodic pulsations at flare current sheet. Nature Communications, 13, 7680. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35377-0) (PMID:36509764) (PMCID:PMC9744830)

Matthews, S. A. et al. (2022) The high-energy Sun - probing the origins of particle acceleration on our nearest star. Experimental Astronomy, 54(2-3), pp. 335-360. (doi: 10.1007/s10686-021-09798-6)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E. P. , Clarkson, D. L. , Chrysaphi, N. and Browning, P. K. (2022) Sizes and shapes of sources in solar metric radio bursts. Astrophysical Journal, 925(2), 140. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3bb7)

Sasikumar Raja, K. et al. (2022) Spectral analysis of solar radio type III bursts from 20 kHz to 410 MHz. Astrophysical Journal, 924(2), 58. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac34ed)

Stores, M., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) The spatial and temporal variations of turbulence in a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), 40. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2c65)

Hadid, L. Z. et al. (2021) Solar Orbiter’s first Venus flyby: observations from the Radio and Plasma Wave instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A18. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140934)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2021) First observations and performance of the RPW instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A41. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141271)

Musset, S. et al. (2021) Simulations of radio-wave anisotropic scattering to interpret type III radio burst data from Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, STEREO, and Wind. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A34. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140998)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2021) The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument (Corrigendum). Astronomy and Astrophysics, 654, C2. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936214e)

Clarkson, D. L. , Kontar, E. P. , Gordovskyy, M., Chrysaphi, N. and Vilmer, N. (2021) First frequency-time-resolved imaging spectroscopy observations of solar radio spikes. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 917(2), L32. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac1a7d)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Fine structure of type III solar radio bursts from Langmuir wave motion in turbulent plasma. Nature Astronomy, 5(8), pp. 796-804. (doi: 10.1038/s41550-021-01370-8)

Fleishman, G. D., Kleint, L., Motorina, G. G., Nita, G. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Energy budget of plasma motions, heating, and electron acceleration in a three-loop solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 913(2), 97. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf495)

Arnold, H. et al. (2021) Electron acceleration during macroscale Magnetic reconnection. Physical Review Letters, 126(13), 135101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.135101)

Zhang, P., Wang, C. and Kontar, E. P. (2021) Parametric simulation studies on the wave propagation of solar radio emission: the source size, duration, and position. Astrophysical Journal, 909(2), 195. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abd8c5)

Chen, X. , Kontar, E. P. , Chrysaphi, N. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Gordovskyy, M., Yan, Y. and Tan, B. (2020) Subsecond time evolution of type III solar radio burst sources at fundamental and harmonic frequencies. Astrophysical Journal, 905(1), 43. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc24e)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P. K., Inoue, S., Kontar, E. P. , Kusano, K. and Vekstein, G. E. (2020) Forward modeling of particle acceleration and transport in an individual solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 902(2), 147. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb60e)

Jeffrey, N. L.S., Saint-Hilaire, P. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) Probing solar flare accelerated electron distributions with prospective X-ray polarimetry missions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A79. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038626)

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2020) The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A12. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936214)

Rodríguez-Pacheco, J. et al. (2020) The Energetic Particle Detector. Energetic particle instrument suite for the Solar Orbiter mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A7. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935287)

Zouganelis, I. et al. (2020) The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan. Translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A3. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038445)

Kuznetsov, A. A., Chrysaphi, N. , Kontar, E. P. and Motorina, G. (2020) Radio echo in the turbulent corona and simulations of solar drift-pair radio bursts. Astrophysical Journal, 898(2), 94. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba04a)

Chrysaphi, N. , Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) First observation of a type II solar radio burst transitioning between a stationary and drifting state. Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 115. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab80c1)

Borissov, A., Neukirch, T., Kontar, E. P. , Threlfall, J. and Parnell, C.E. (2020) Particle acceleration with anomalous pitch angle scattering in 3D separator reconnection. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 635, A63. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936977)

Motorina, G. G., Fleishman, G. D. and Kontar, E. P. (2020) Spatiotemporal energy partitioning in a nonthermally dominated two-loop solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 890(1), 75. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab67d1)

Krupar, V. et al. (2020) Density fluctuations in the solar wind based on type III radio bursts observed by Parker Solar Probe. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 246(2), 57. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab65bd)

Zhang, P., Yu, S., Kontar, E. P. and Wang, C. (2019) On the source position and duration of a solar type III radio burst observed by LOFAR. Astrophysical Journal, 885(2), 140. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab458f)

Aschwanden, M. J. et al. (2019) Global energetics of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1332(1), 012002. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1332/1/012002)

Kuznetsov, A.A. and Kontar, E.P. (2019) First imaging spectroscopy observations of solar drift pair bursts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 631, L7. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936447)

Kontar, E. P. , Chen, X. , Chrysaphi, N. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Emslie, A. G., Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Gordovskyy, M. and Browning, P. K. (2019) Anisotropic radio-wave scattering and the interpretation of solar radio emission observations. Astrophysical Journal, 884(2), 122. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab40bb)

Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Kontar, E. P. and Fletcher, L. (2019) The role of energy diffusion in the deposition of energetic electron energy in solar and stellar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 880(2), 136. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2764)

Aschwanden, M. J., Kontar, E. P. and Jeffrey, N. L.S. (2019) Global energetics of solar flares. VIII. The low-energy cutoff. Astrophysical Journal, 881(1), 1. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2cd4)

Bradshaw, S. J., Emslie, A. G., Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E. P. (2019) Coronal loop scaling laws for various forms of parallel heat conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 880(2), 80. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab287f)

Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2019) A Fokker–Planck framework for studying the diffusion of radio burst waves in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 873(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0411)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E. , Browning, P. and Kuznetsov, A. (2019) Frequency–distance structure of solar radio sources observed by LOFAR. Astrophysical Journal, 873(1), 48. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab03d8)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E. P. and Motorina, G. (2019) Electron distribution and energy release in magnetic reconnection outflow regions during the pre-impulsive phase of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 872(2), 204. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab01c9)

Georgoulis, M. K. and Kontar, E. P. (2019) Preface: Solar physics advances from the interior to the heliosphere. Advances in Space Research, 63(4), pp. 1387-1388. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2019.01.008)

Kontar, E. P. , Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Emslie, A. G. (2019) Determination of the total accelerated electron rate and power using solar flare hard X-ray spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 871(2), 225. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aafad3)

Nindos, A., Kontar, E.P. and Oberoi, D. (2019) Solar physics with the Square Kilometre Array. Advances in Space Research, 63(4), pp. 1404-1424. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2018.10.023)

Kontar, E.P. , Motorina, G.G., Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Tsap, Y.T., Fleishman, G.D. and Stepanov, A.V. (2018) Frequency rising sub-THz emission from solar flare ribbons. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620, A95. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834124)

Chrysaphi, N. , Kontar, E. P. , Holman, G. D. and Temmer, M. (2018) CME-driven shock and type II solar radio burst band splitting. Astrophysical Journal, 868(2), 79. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae9e5)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Spatial expansion and speeds of type III electron beam sources in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 867(2), 158. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae5d4)

Emslie, A. G., Bian, N. H. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Energy deposition by energetic electrons in a diffusive collisional transport model. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2), 158. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaceaa)

Sharykin, I.N., Kontar, E.P. and Kuznetsov, A.A. (2018) LOFAR observations of fine spectral structure dynamics in type IIIb radio bursts. Solar Physics, 293(8), 115. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-018-1333-2)

Kolotkov, D. Y., Nakariakov, V. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Origin of the modulation of the radio emission from the solar corona by a fast magnetoacoustic wave. Astrophysical Journal, 861(1), 33. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac77e)

Kontar, E. P. and Nindos, A. (2018) Combined radio and space-based solar observations: from techniques to new results – preface. Solar Physics, 293(6), 90. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-018-1309-2)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Solar type III radio burst time characteristics at LOFAR frequencies and the implications for electron beam transport. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 614, A69. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732298)

Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Kontar, E.P. , Zaslavsky, A., Santolik, O., Soucek, J., Kruparova, O., Eastwood, J.P. and Szabo, A. (2018) Interplanetary type III bursts and electron density fluctuations in the solar wind. Astrophysical Journal, 857(2), 82. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab60f)

Stackhouse, D. J. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Spatially inhomogeneous acceleration of electrons in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 612, A64. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730708)

Chen, X., Kontar, E. P. , Yu, S., Yan, Y., Huang, J. and Tan, B. (2018) Fine structures of solar radio type III bursts and their possible relationship with coronal density turbulence. Astrophysical Journal, 856(1), 73. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa9bf)

Musset, S., Kontar, E.P. and Vilmer, N. (2018) Diffusive transport of energetic electrons in the solar corona: X-ray and radio diagnostics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 610, A6. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731514)

Kontar, E.P. , Yu, S., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Alcock, B. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Melnik, V.N., Bian, N.H. and Subramanian, P. (2018) Publisher Correction: Imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures. Nature Communications, 9, 146. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02464-6) (PMID:29323123) (PMCID:PMC5765264)

Bian, N., Emslie, A. G., Horne, D. and Kontar, E. P. (2018) Heating and cooling of coronal loops with turbulent suppression of parallel heat conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 852(2), 127. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f29)

Zucca, P. et al. (2018) Shock location and CME 3D reconstruction of a solar type II radio burst with LOFAR. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 615, A89. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732308)

Kontar, E.P. , Yu, S., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Alcock, B. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Melnik, V.N., Bian, N.H. and Subramanian, P. (2017) Imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures. Nature Communications, 8, 1515. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01307-8) (PMID:29142220) (PMCID:PMC5688146)

Casadei, D., Jeffrey, N. L.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Measuring X-ray anisotropy in solar flares. Prospective stereoscopic capabilities of STIX and MiSolFA. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A2. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730629)

James, T., Subramanian, P. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Small electron acceleration episodes in the solar corona. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), pp. 89-99. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1460)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Imaging spectroscopy of type U and J solar radio bursts with LOFAR. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A141. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730701)

Borissov, A., Kontar, E.P. , Threlfall, J. and Neukirch, T. (2017) Particle acceleration with anomalous pitch angle scattering in 2D magnetohydrodynamic reconnection simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 605, A73. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731183)

Lyubchyk, O., Kontar, E.P. , Voitenko, Y.M., Bian, N.H. and Melrose, D.B. (2017) Solar plasma radio emission in the presence of imbalanced turbulence of kinetic-scale Alfvén waves. Solar Physics, 292(9), 117. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-017-1140-1)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P. K. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Polarisation of microwave emission from reconnecting twisted coronal loops. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 604, A116. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629334)

Kontar, E.P. , Perez, J.E., Harra, L.K., Kuznetsov, A.A., Emslie, A.G., Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Bian, N.H. and Dennis, B.R. (2017) Turbulent kinetic energy in the energy balance of a solar flare. Physical Review Letters, 118(15), 155101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.155101) (PMID:28452537)

Aschwanden, M. J. et al. (2017) Global energetics of solar flares. V. energy closure in flares and coronal mass ejections. Astrophysical Journal, 836(1), p. 17. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/17)

Bian, N. H., Emslie, A. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) The role of diffusion in the transport of energetic electrons during solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 835(2), 262. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/262)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2017) Langmuir wave electric fields induced by electron beams in the heliosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 598, A44. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629697)

Scullion, E., Rouppe van der Voort, L., Antolin, P., Wedemeyer, S., Vissers, G., Kontar, E.P. and Gallagher, P.T. (2016) Observing the formation of flare-driven coronal rain. Astrophysical Journal, 833(2), 184. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/184)

Bian, N. H., Watters, J. M., Kontar, E. P. and Emslie, A. G. (2016) Anomalous cooling of coronal loops with turbulent suppression of thermal conduction. Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/76)

Aschwanden, M. J., Holman, G., O’Flannagain, A., Caspi, A., McTiernan, J. M. and Kontar, E. P. (2016) Global energetics of solar flares. III. Nonthermal energies. Astrophysical Journal, 832(1), 27. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/27)

Huang, J., Kontar, E. P. , Nakariakov, V. M. and Gao, G. (2016) Quasi-periodic acceleration of electrons in the flare on 2012 July 19. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), 119. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/119)

Tan, B.L., Karlický, M., Mészárosová, H., Kashapova, L., Huang, J., Yan, Y. and Kontar, E.P. (2016) Diagnosing the source region of a solar burst on 26 September 2011 by using microwave type-III pairs. Solar Physics, 291(8), pp. 2407-2418. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-016-0986-y)

Fleishman, G. D., Nita, G. M., Kontar, E. P. and Gary, D. E. (2016) Narrowband gyrosynchrotron bursts: probing electron acceleration in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 826(1), 38. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/38)

Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. and Emslie, A. G. (2016) Suppression of parallel transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas and its impact on the non-thermal and thermal aspects of solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 824(2), 78. (doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/824/2/78)

Gordovskyy, M., Kontar, E.P. and Browning, P.K. (2016) Plasma motions and non-thermal line broadening in flaring twisted coronal loops. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 589, A104. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527249)

Tsap, Y. T., Smirnova, V. V., Morgachev, A. S., Motorina, G. G., Kontar, E. P. , Nagnibeda, V. G. and Strekalova, P. V. (2016) On the origin of 140GHz emission from the 4 July 2012 solar flare. Advances in Space Research, 57(7), pp. 1449-1455. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.12.037)

Wedemeyer, S. et al. (2016) Solar science with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array—a new view of our sun. Space Science Reviews, 200(1), pp. 1-73. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-015-0229-9)

Yoon, P.H., Ziebell, L.F., Kontar, E.P. and Schlickeiser, R. (2016) Weak turbulence theory for collisional plasmas. Physical Review E, 93(3), 033203. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.033203) (PMID:27078471)

Tigik, S.F., Ziebell, L.F., Yoon, P.H. and Kontar, E. (2016) Two dimensional time evolution of beam-plasma instability in the presence of binary collisions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 586, A19. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527271)

Wedemeyer, S. et al. (2015) SSALMON: The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network. Advances in Space Research, 56(12), pp. 2679-2692. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.05.027)

Battaglia, M., Motorina, G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Multithermal representation of the kappa-distribution of solar flare electrons and application to simultaneous X-ray and EUV observations. Astrophysical Journal, 815(1), p. 73. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/815/1/73)

Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Kontar, E. P. and Dennis, B. R. (2015) High-temperature differential emission measure and altitude variations in the temperature and density of solar flare coronal X-ray sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 584, A89. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526665)

Motorina, G. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Differential emission measure and electron distribution function reconstructed from RHESSI and SDO observations. Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 55(7), pp. 995-999. (doi: 10.1134/S0016793215070154)

Vanninathan, K., Veronig, A. M., Dissauer, K., Madjarska, M. S., Hannah, I. G. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Coronal response to an EUV wave from DEM analysis. Astrophysical Journal, 812(2), 173. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/173)

Kontar, E. P. , Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Emslie, A. G. and Bian, N. H. (2015) Collisional relaxation of electrons in a warm plasma and accelerated nonthermal electron spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 809(1), 35. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/35)

Krupar, V., Kontar, E. P. , Soucek, J., Santolik, O., Maksimovic, M. and Kruparova, O. (2015) On the speed and acceleration of electron beams triggering interplanetary type III radio bursts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 580, A137. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425308)

Reid, H. A.S. and Kontar, E. P. (2015) Stopping frequency of type III solar radio bursts in expanding magnetic flux tubes. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 577, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425309)

Nita, G. M., Fleishman, G. D., Kuznetsov, A. A., Kontar, E. P. and Gary, D. E. (2015) Three-dimensional radio and x-ray modeling and data analysis software: revealing flare complexity. Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), 236. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/236)

Kuznetsov, A.A. and Kontar, E.P. (2015) Spatially resolved energetic electron properties for the 21 May 2004 flare from radio observations and 3D simulations. Solar Physics, 290(1), pp. 79-93. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-014-0530-x)

Bian, N. H., Emslie, A. G., Stackhouse, D. J. and Kontar, E. P. (2014) The formation of kappa-distribution accelerated electron populations in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 796(2), 142. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/142)

Ratcliffe, H., Kontar, E. P. and Reid, H. A. S. (2014) Large-scale simulations of solar type III radio bursts: flux density, drift rate, duration, and bandwidth. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 572, A111. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423731)

Krupar, V., Maksimovic, M., Santolik, O., Kontar, E.P. , Cecconi, B., Hoang, S., Kruparova, O., Soucek, J., Reid, H. and Zaslavsky, A. (2014) Statistical survey of Type III radio bursts at long wavelengths observed by the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)/Waves Instruments: radio flux density variations with frequency. Solar Physics, 289(8), pp. 3121-3135. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-014-0522-x)

Reid, H. A.S. , Vilmer, N. and Kontar, E. P. (2014) The low-high-low trend of Type III radio burst starting frequencies and solar flare hard X-rays. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 567, A85. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321973)

Bian, N. H., Kontar, E. P. and Ratcliffe, H. (2014) Resonance broadening due to particle scattering and mode coupling in the quasi-linear relaxation of electron beams. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 119(6), pp. 4239-4255. (doi: 10.1002/2013JA019664)

Jeffrey, N. L.S. , Kontar, E. P. , Bian, N. H. and Emslie, A. G. (2014) On the variation of solar flare coronal X-ray source sizes with energy. Astrophysical Journal, 787(1), 86. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/86)

Ratcliffe, H. and Kontar, E.P. (2014) Plasma radio emission from inhomogeneous collisional plasma of a flaring loop. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 562, A57. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322263)

Kontar, E.P. , Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Vilmer, N. (2014) Turbulent pitch-angle scattering and diffusive transport of hard x-ray-producing electrons in flaring coronal loops. Astrophysical Journal, 780(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/780/2/176)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P.K., Kontar, E.P. and Bian, N.H. (2014) Particle acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted loops in a stratified atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 561, A72. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321715)

Skinner, G.K., Dennis, B.R., Krizmanic, J.F. and Kontar, E.P. (2014) Science enabled by high precision inertial formation flying. International Journal of Space Science and Engineering, 1(4), pp. 331-348. (doi: 10.1504/IJSPACESE.2013.059271)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Electron distribution functions in solar flares from combined x-ray and extreme-ultraviolet observations. Astrophysical Journal, 779(2), p. 107. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/107)

Harra, L.K., Matthews, S., Culhane, J.L., Cheung, M.C.M., Kontar, E.P. and Hara, H. (2013) The location of non-thermal velocity in the early phases of large flares—revealing pre-eruption flux ropes. Astrophysical Journal, 774(2), p. 122. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/122)

Reid, H.A.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Evolution of the solar flare energetic electrons in the inhomogeneous inner heliosphere. Solar Physics, 285(1-2), pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0013-x)

Dickson, E.C.M. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Measurements of electron anisotropy in solar flares using albedo with RHESSI X-ray data. Solar Physics, 284(2), pp. 405-425. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0178-3)

Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P.K., Kontar, E.P. and Bian, N.H. (2013) Effect of collisions and magnetic convergence on electron acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted solar flare loops. Solar Physics, 284(2), pp. 489-498. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-012-0124-4)

Fleishman, G.D., Kontar, E.P. , Nita, G.M. and Gary, D.E. (2013) Probing dynamics of electron acceleration with radio and x-ray spectroscopy, imaging, and timing in the 2002 april 11 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 768(2), p. 190. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/768/2/190)

Hannah, I.E. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Multi-thermal dynamics and energetics of a coronal mass ejection in the low solar atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 553, A10. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219727)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Stochastic acceleration by multi-island contraction during turbulent magnetic reconnection. Physical Review Letters, 110(15), 151101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.151101) (PMID:25167241)

Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2013) Temporal variations of x-ray solar flare loops: length, corpulence, position, temperature, plasma pressure, and spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 766(2), Art. 75. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/766/2/75)

Simoes, P. J. A. and Kontar, E. P. (2013) Implications for electron acceleration and transport from non-thermal electron rates at looptop and footpoint sources in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 551, A135. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220304)

Hannah, I.G. , Kontar, E.P. and Reid, H.A.S. (2013) Effect of turbulent density-fluctuations on wave-particle interactions and solar flare X-ray spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 550, A51. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220462)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) RHESSI and SDO/AIA observations of the chromospheric and coronal plasma parameters during a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 760(2), Art. 142. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/2/142)

Ratcliffe, H., Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Density fluctuations and the acceleration of electrons by beam-generated langmuir waves in the solar corona. Astrophysical Journal, 761(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/176)

Bian, N.H., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) A classification scheme for turbulent acceleration processes in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 754(2), Art. 103. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/103)

Karlický, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Electron acceleration during three-dimensional relaxation of an electron beam-return current plasma system in a magnetic field. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 544, A148. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219400)

Guo, J., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Benvenuto, F., Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2012) Determination of the acceleration region size in a loop-structured solar flare. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 543, A53. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219341)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. , Fletcher, L. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2012) Numerical simulations of chromospheric hard X-ray source sizesin solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 752(1), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/4)

Matthews, S.A. et al. (2012) Solar particle acceleration radiation and kinetics (SPARK). Experimental Astronomy, 33(2-3), pp. 237-269. (doi: 10.1007/s10686-011-9260-3)

Hannah, I.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2012) Differential emission measures from the regularized inversion of Hinode and SDO data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117576)

Kontar, E.P. , Ratcliffe, H. and Bian, N.H. (2012) Wave-particle interactions in non-uniform plasma and the interpretation of hard X-ray spectra in solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A43. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118216)

Krucker, S., Kontar, E.P. , Christe, S., Glesener, L. and Lin, R.P. (2011) Electron acceleration associated with solar jets. Astrophysical Journal, 742(2), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/82)

Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Spatially resolved hard X-ray polarization in solar flares: effects of Compton scattering and bremsstrahlung. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 536, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117987)

Krucker, S., Hudson, H.S. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. , Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. , Benz, A.O., Csillaghy, A. and Lin, R.P. (2011) High-resolution imaging of solar flare ribbons and its implication on the thick-target beam model. Astrophysical Journal, 739(2), p. 96. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/739/2/96)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Height structure of X-ray, EUV, and white-light emission in a solar flare. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 533, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117605)

Holman, G.D., Aschwanden, M.J., Aurass, H., Battaglia, M., Grigis, P.C., Kontar, E.P. , Liu, W., Saint-Hilaire, P. and Zharkova, V.V. (2011) Implications of X-ray observations for electron acceleration and propagation in solar flares. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 107-166. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-010-9680-9)

Kontar, E.P. et al. (2011) Deducing electron properties from hard X-ray observations. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 301-355. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-011-9804-x)

Zharkova, V.V. et al. (2011) Recent advances in understanding particle acceleration processes in solar flares. Space Science Reviews, 159(1-4), pp. 357-420. (doi: 10.1007/s11214-011-9803-y)

Battaglia, M. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Hard X-Ray footpoint sizes and positions as diagnostics of flare accelerated energetic electrons in the low solar atmosphere. Astrophysical Journal, 735(1), p. 42. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/42)

Inglis, A.R., Zimovets, I.V., Dennis, B.R., Kontar, E.P. , Nakariakov, V.M., Struminsky, A.B. and Tolbert, A.K. (2011) Instrumental oscillations in RHESSI count rates during solar flares. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016322)

Hannah, I.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) The spectral difference between solar flare HXR coronal and footpoint sources due to wave-particle interactions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 529, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015710)

Reid, H.A.S. , Vilmer, N. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Characteristics of the flare acceleration region derived from simultaneous hard X-ray and radio observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 529, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016181)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. and Bian, N.H. (2011) Acceleration, magnetic fluctuations, and cross-field transport of energetic electrons in a solar flare loop. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 730, (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/730/2/L22)

Fleishman, G.D., Kontar, E.P. , Nita, G.M. and Gary, D.E. (2011) A cold, tenuous solar flare: acceleration without heating. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 731(1), (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/731/1/L19)

Guo, J., Liu, S., Fletcher, L. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Relationship between hard and soft X-ray emission components of a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 728(1), (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/4)

Battaglia, M., Kontar, E.P. and Hannah, I.G. (2011) The influence of albedo on the size of hard X-ray flare sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 526, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014798)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2011) Parallel electric field amplification by phase mixing of Alfven waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 527, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015385)

Bian, N.H., Kontar, E.P. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2011) Turbulent cross-field transport of non-thermal electrons in coronal loops: theory and observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 535(A18), (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117574)

Reid, H.A.S. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) Solar wind density turbulence and solar flare electron transport from the Sun to the Earth. Astrophysical Journal, 721(1), pp. 864-874. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/721/1/864)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. , Jeffrey, N.L.S. and Battaglia, M. (2010) The sub-arcsecond hard x-ray structure of loop footpoints in a solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 717(1), pp. 250-256. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/717/1/250)

Temmer, M., Veronig, A.N., Kontar, E.P. , Krucker, S. and Vrsnak, B. (2010) Combined stereo/Rhessi study of coronal mass ejection acceleration and particle acceleration in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 712(2), pp. 1410-1420. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/712/2/1410)

Kontar, E.P. and Jeffrey, N.L.S. (2010) Positions and sizes of X-ray solar flare sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 513, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014066)

Fleishman, G.D. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) Sub-THz radiation mechanisms in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 709(2), pp. 127-132. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/709/2/L127)

Bian, N.H. and Kontar, E.P. (2010) A gyrofluid description of Alfvenic turbulence and its parallel electric field. Physics of Plasmas, 17(6), (doi: 10.1063/1.3439682)

Bian, N.H., Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2010) Parallel electric field generation by Alfvén wave turbulence. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 519, (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014048)

Hannah, I.G., Kontar, E.P. and Sirenko, O.K. (2009) The effect of wave-particle interactions on low-energy cutoffs in solar flare electron spectra. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 707(1), pp. 45-50. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/L45)

Brown, J.C., Turkmani, R., Kontar, E.P. , MacKinnon, A.L. and Vlahos, L. (2009) Local re-acceleration and a modified thick target model of solar flare electrons. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508(2), pp. 993-1000. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913145)

Prato, M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2009) The location of centroids in photon and electron maps of solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 706(1), pp. 917-922. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/917)

Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Prato, M., Kontar, E.P. and Piana, M. (2009) Hard X-ray imaging of solar flares using interpolated visibilities. Astrophysical Journal, 703(2), pp. 2004-2016. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/2004)

Prato, M., Piana, M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Kontar, E.P. and Massone, A.M. (2009) A regularized visibility-based approach to astronomical imaging spectroscopy. SIAM: Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2(3), pp. 910-930. (doi: 10.1137/090746355)

Kontar, E.P. and Reid, H.A.S. (2009) Onsets and spectra of impulsive solar energetic electron events observed near the Earth. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 695(2), pp. 140-144. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/L140)

De Moortel, I., Browning, P.K., Bradshaw, S.J., Pintér, B. and Kontar, E.P. (2008) The way forward for coronal heating. Astronomy and Geophysics, 49(3), pp. 21-26. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49321.x)

Kontar, E.P., Dickson, E. and Kasparova, J. (2008) Low-energy cutoffs in electron spectra of solar flares: Statistical survey. Solar Physics, 252(1), pp. 139-147. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-008-9249-x)

Kontar, E.P. , Hannah, I.G. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2008) Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 489(3), L57-L60. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810719)

Prato, M., Massone, A.M., Piana, M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Kontar, E.P. and Schwartz, R.A. (2008) A visibility-based approach using regularization for imaging-spectroscopy in solar X-ray astronomy. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 135, (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/135/1/012084)

Sullivan, J.M., Lockwood, M., Lanchester, B.S., Kontar, E.P. , Ivchenko, N., Dahlgren, H. and Whiter, D.K. (2008) An optical study of multiple NEIAL events driven by low energy electron precipitation. Annales Geophysicae, 26(8), pp. 2435-2447. (doi: 10.5194/angeo-26-2435-2008)

Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Hurford, G.J., Prato, M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. and Schwartz, R.A. (2007) Electron flux spectral imaging of solar flares through regularized analysis of hard X-ray source visibilities. Astrophysical Journal, 665, pp. 846-855. (doi: 10.1086/519518)

Krucker, S., Kontar, E.P. , Christe, S. and Lin, R.P. (2007) Solar flare electron spectra at the sun and near the earth. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 663(2), L109. (doi: 10.1086/519373)

Kašparová, J., Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2007) Hard X-ray spectra and positions of solar flares observed by RHESSI: photospheric albedo, directivity and electron spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 466, pp. 705-712. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066689)

Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Massone, A.M., Piana, M., Brown, J.C. and Prato, M. (2007) Electron-electron bremsstrahlung emission and the inference of electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 670(1), pp. 857-861. (doi: 10.1086/521977)

Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Stereoscopic electron spectroscopy of solar hard x-ray flares with a single spacecraft. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 653(2), L149-L152. (doi: 10.1086/510586)

Prato, M., Piana, M., Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. and Massone, A.M. (2006) Regularized reconstruction of the differential emission measure from solar flare hard X-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 237(1), pp. 61-83. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-006-0029-1)

Brown, J.C., Emslie, G., Holman, G.D., Johns-Krull, C.M., Kontar, E.P. , Lin, R.P., Massone, A.M. and Piana, M. (2006) Evaluation of algorithms for reconstructing electron spectra from their bremsstrahlung hard X-Ray spectra. Astrophysical Journal, 643, pp. 523-531. (doi: 10.1086/501497)

Kontar, E.P. , MacKinnon, A.L. , Schwartz, R.A. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Compton backscattered and primary x-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 446, pp. 1157-1163. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053672)

Kontar, E.P. and Brown, J.C. (2006) Solar flare hard X-ray spectra possibly inconsistent with the collisional thick target model. Advances in Space Research, 38(5), pp. 945-950. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.029)

Kašparová, J., Karlicky, M., Kontar, E.P., Schwartz, R.A. and Dennis, B.R. (2005) Multi-wavelength analysis of high-energy electrons in solar flares: a case study of the August 20, 2002 flare. Solar Physics, 232(1-2), pp. 63-86. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-1581-9)

Kontar, E.P. and MacKinnon, A.L. (2005) Regularized energy-dependent solar flare hard x-Ray spectral index. Solar Physics, 227(2), pp. 299-310. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-1101-y)

Kontar, E.P., Emslie, A.G., Piana, M., Massone, A.M. and Brown, J.C. (2005) Determination of electron flux spectra in a solar flare with an augmented regularization method: application to RHESSI data. Solar Physics, 226(2), pp. 317-325. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-7150-4)

Brown, J.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2005) Problems and progress in flare fast particle diagnostics. Advances in Space Research, 35(10), pp. 1675-1682. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.020)

Galloway, R.K., MacKinnon, A.L. , Kontar, E.P. and Helander, P. (2005) Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high temperature coronal X-ray source. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 438(3), pp. 1107-1114. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042137)

Kontar, E.P. and Pécseli, H.L. (2005) Nonlinear wave interactions as a model for naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines in the ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L05110), (doi: 10.1029/2004GL022182)

Kontar, E.P., Piana, M., Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G. and Brown, J.C. (2004) Generalized regularization techniques with constraints for the analysis of solar bremsstrahlung x-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 225(2), pp. 293-309. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-004-4140-x)

Massone, A.M., Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P. , Piana, M., Prato, M. and Brown, J.C. (2004) Anisotropic bremsstrahlung emission and the form of regularized electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 613(2), pp. 1233-1240. (doi: 10.1086/423127)

Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) The determination and use of mean electron flux spectra in solar flares. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2(2)), L115 -L117. (doi: 10.1086/378169)

Piana, M., Massone, A. M., Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G., Brown, J. C. and Schwartz, R. A. (2003) Regularized electron flux spectra in the 2002 July 23 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2), L127 -L130. (doi: 10.1086/378171)

Mel'Nik, V.V. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) Plasma radio emission of beam-plasma structures in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 215(2), pp. 335-341. (doi: 10.1023/A:1025689116449)

Kontar, E.P. and Mel'nik, V.N. (2003) Weakly turbulent electron cloud transport in a plasma with an external electric field. Physics of Plasmas, 10, pp. 2732-2737. (doi: 10.1063/1.1581881)

Conway, A.J., Brown, J.C., Eves, B.A.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2003) Implications of solar flare hard X-ray "knee" spectra observed by RHESSI. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 407(2), pp. 725-734. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030897)

Emslie, A.G., Kontar, E.P., Krucker, S. and Lin, R.P. (2003) RHESSI hard x-ray imaging spectroscopy of the large gamma-ray flare of 2002 July 23. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 595(2), L107-L110. (doi: 10.1086/378931)

Kontar, E.P., Brown, J.C., Emslie, A.G., Schwartz, R.A., Smith, D.M. and Alexander, R.C. (2003) An explanation for non-power-law behavior in the hard X-ray spectrum of the 2002 July 23 solar flare. Astrophysical Journal, 595(2), L123 -L126.

Pozhar, L.A., Kontar, E.P. and Hu, M.Z. (2002) Transport properties of nanosystems: viscosity of nanofluids confined in slit nanopores. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2(2), pp. 209-227. (doi: 10.1166/jnn.2002.088)

Aschwanden, M.J., Brown, J.C. and Kontar, E.P. (2002) Chromospheric height and density measurements in a solar flare observed with RHESSI - II - Data analysis. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 383 -405. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022472319619)

Brown, J.C., Aschwanden, M.J. and Kontar, E.P. (2002) Chromospheric height and density measurements in a solar flare observed with RHESSI - I - Theory. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 373 -381. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022469402781)

Kontar, E. (2002) Quantitative evaluation of massive sulfide ore formation. Geology of Ore Deposits, 44(6), pp. 474-485.

Kontar, E.P. (2002) Nonlinear development of electron-beam-driven weak turbulence in an inhomogeneous plasma. Physical Review E, 65(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.066408)

Kontar, E.P. , Brown, J.C. and McArthur, G.K. (2002) Nonuniform target ionization and fitting thick target electron injection spectra to RHESSI data. Solar Physics, 210(1-2), 419 -429. (doi: 10.1023/A:1022494318540)

Kontar, E.P. , Mel'nik, V.N. and Lapshin, V.I. (2001) Dynamics of a fast Maxwellian electron cloud in coronal plasma. Radio Science, 36(6), pp. 1757-1764. (doi: 10.1029/2000RS002453)

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Numerical consideration of quasilinear electron cloud dynamics in plasma. Computer Physics Communications, 138(3), pp. 222-233. (doi: 10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00214-4)

Kontar, E. (2001) Propagation of a fast electron cloud in a solar-like plasma of decreasing density. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 43(4), pp. 589-601.

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Dynamics of electron beams in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma. Solar Physics, 202(1), pp. 131-149. (doi: 10.1023/A:1011894830942)

Kontar, E.P. (2001) Dynamics of electron beams in the solar corona plasma with density fluctuations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 375, pp. 629-637. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010807)

Mel'nik, V.N., Kontar, E.P. and Lapshin, V.I. (2000) Propagation of a Maxwellian electron cloud in a plasma. Solar Physics, 196(1), pp. 199-212. (doi: 10.1023/A:1005282324985)

Mel'nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (2000) To gasdynamic description of a hot electron cloud in a cold plasma. New Astronomy, 5(1), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1016/S1384-1076(00)00004-X)

Mel'nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1999) The spread of the hot electron cloud in the solar corona. New Astronomy, 4(1), pp. 41-44. (doi: 10.1016/S1384-1076(98)00044-X)

Mel'nik, V.N., Lapshin, V. and Kontar, E.P. (1999) Propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 184(2), pp. 353-362. (doi: 10.1023/A:1005191910544)

Kontar, E.P. , Lapshin, V.I. and Mel'Nik, V.N. (1998) Numerical and analytical study of the propagation of a monoenergetic electron beam in a plasma. Plasma Physics Reports, 24, pp. 772-776.

Mel'Nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1998) Gasdynamic description of electron-beam flying-off in a plasma. Journal of Plasma Physics, 60(1), pp. 49-64. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377898006539)

Mel’nik, V.N. and Kontar, E.P. (1998) Beam-plasma structures at propagation of electron beams in plasma. Physica Scripta, 58(5), pp. 510-517. (doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/58/5/015)

Book Sections

Brown, J.C., Kontar, E.P. and Veronig, A.M. (2007) RHESSI results - time for a rethink? In: Klein, K.L. and MacKinnon, A.L. (eds.) The High Energy Solar Corona: Waves, Eruptions, Particles. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 725. Springer, pp. 65-80. ISBN 9783540715696 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-71570-2_4)

Research Reports or Papers

Christe, S. et al. (2017) Exploring impulsive solar magnetic energy release and particle acceleration with focused hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy. Technical Report. Next Generation Solar Physics Mission. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1701.00792).

Conference Proceedings

Jeffrey, N. L. S. , Kontar, E. P. , Emslie, A. G. and Bian, N. H. (2015) The collisional relaxation of electrons in hot flaring plasma and inferring the properties of solar flare accelerated electrons from X-ray observations. In: 14th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Linear and Nonlinear Particle Energization throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond, Tampa, FL, USA, 20-24 Apr 2015, (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/642/1/012013)

Nakariakov, V. M., Bisi, M. M., Browning, P. K., Maia, D., Kontar, E. P. , Oberoi, D., Gallagher, P. T., Cairns, I. H. and Ratcliffe, H. (2015) Solar and Heliospheric Physics with the Square Kilometre Array. In: Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14), Giardini Naxos, Italy, 9-13 June 2014, p. 169.