Dr Alexander Russell
Senior Lecturer in Solar/Magnetospheric Theory
PhD supervision
- Qihui Ming
Selected publications
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Flux-rope-mediated turbulent magnetic reconnection
Russell, A. J. B., 20 Feb 2025, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 980, 2, 13 p., 186.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ion-rich acceleration during an eruptive flux rope event in a multiple null-point configuration
Pesce-Rollins, M., MacKinnon, A., Klein, K.-L., Russell, A. J. B., Hudson, H., Warmuth, A., Wiegelmann, T., Masson, S., Parnell, C., Nitta, N. V. & Omodei, N., 20 Aug 2025, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 989, 2, 16 p., 148.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Probing progression of heating through the lower flare atmosphere via high-cadence IRIS spectroscopy
Lörinčík, J., Polito, V., Kerr, G. S., Hayes, L. A. & Russell, A. J. B., 10 Jun 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 986, 1, 22 p., 73.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Solar flare ion temperatures
Russell, A. J. B., Polito, V., Testa, P., De Pontieu, B. & Belov, S. A., 10 Sept 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 990, 2, 6 p., L39.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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UK White Paper on Magnetic Reconnection
Russell, A. J. B., McLaughlin, J., Browning, P., Carter, J., Franci, L., Hietala, H., Hillier, A., Hornig, G., MacTaggart, D., Matthews, S., McKevitt, J., Priest, E., Reid, J., Snow, B., Stawarz, J., Yeates, A., Rueda, J. A. A., Bate, W., Zanna, G. D. & Eastwood, J. & 8 others, , 12 Dec 2025, (UKSA Frontiers 2035 White Papers).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Alfvén waves in solar flares
Russell, A. J. B., 12 Apr 2024, Alfvén waves across heliophysics: progress, challenges, and opportunities. Keiling, A. (ed.). American Geophysical Union (AGU), Vol. 285. (Geophysical Monograph Series; vol. 285).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Nonlinear damping and field-aligned flows of propagating shear Alfvén waves with Braginskii viscosity
Russell, A. J. B., 16 May 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 948, 2, 15 p., 128.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evolution, structure, and topology of self-generated turbulent reconnection layers
Beg, R., Russell, A. J. B. & Hornig, G., 23 Nov 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal. 940, 1, 32 p., 94.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evolution of field line helicity in magnetic relaxation
Yeates, A. R., Russell, A. J. B. & Hornig, G., 18 Aug 2021, In: Physics of Plasmas. 28, 8, 14 p., 082904.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Field linkage and magnetic helicity density
Lund, K., Jardine, M., Russell, A. J. B., Donati, J.-F., Fares, R., Folsom, C. P., Jeffers, S. V., Marsden, S. C., Morin, J., Petit, P. & See, V., 1 Apr 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502, 4, p. 4903–4910 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review