Publications of Sean Oughton

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Sean Oughton, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-2814-7288

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 94 (refereed: 92)
No. of citations: 5650
First author papers: 17 (refereed: 17)

2026

  1. Direct power spectral density estimation from structure functions without Fourier transforms [0]
    Bishop, Mark A., Oughton, Sean, Parashar, Tulasi N. & Perrott, Yvette C., Physics of Fluids, 38, 025107
  2. Particle Transport from First Principles in the Early Heliosphere: κ1 Ceti as a Case Study for the Young Sun [0]
    Engelbrecht, N. Eugene, Herbst, Konstantin, Scherer, Klaus, Oughton, Sean & Airapetian, Vladimir S., ApJ, 998, 45
  3. Topological and dynamic characteristics in forced anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [0]
    Gao, Kai, Jiang, Bin, Li, Cheng, Yang, Yan, Zhou, Kangcheng, Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean & Wan, Minping, Physics of Plasmas, 33, 032304
  4. Angular Dependence of Third-order Law in Anisotropic MHD Turbulence [0]
    Jiang, Bin, Gao, Zhuoran, Yang, Yan, Pecora, Francesco, Gao, Kai, Li, Cheng, Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Wan, Minping, ApJ, 1000, 71
  5. Factors controlling the statistics of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [1]
    Khan, M. B., Shay, M. A., Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Haggerty, C. C., Adhikari, S., Cassak, P. A., Fordin, S., O'Donnell, D., Yang, Y., Bandyopadhyay, R. & Roy, S., Physical Review E, 113, 015207
  6. Separate Exact Laws of Kinetic and Magnetic Energy Cascade in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence [0]
    Li, C., Yang, Y., Matthaeus, W. H., Jiang, B., Oughton, Sean, Wan, M. & Chen, S., Physical Review Letters, 136, 064001

2025

  1. Estimation of Effective Viscosity to Quantify Collisional Behavior in Collisionless Plasma [3]
    Adhikari, Subash, González, Carlos A., Yang, Yan, Oughton, Sean, Pecora, Francesco, Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi & Matthaeus, William H., ApJ, 992, 180
  2. Constraining Solar Wind Transport Model Parameters Using Bayesian Analysis [2]
    Bishop, Mark A., Oughton, Sean, Parashar, Tulasi N. & Perrott, Yvette C., ApJ, 979, 211
  3. Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [3]
    Capocci, Damiano, Johnson, Perry L., Oughton, Sean, Biferale, Luca & Linkmann, Moritz, Journal of Plasma Physics, 91, E11
  4. Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the associated spatial diffusion tensor of cosmic rays in dynamical galactic halos [2]
    Kleimann, J., Fichtner, H., Stein, M., Dettmar, R.-J., Bomans, D. J. & Oughton, S., A&A, 699, A92
  5. Finite Reynolds number effect on substantial inertial range in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [0]
    Ye, Yuchen, Yang, Yan, Jiang, Bin, Li, Cheng, Wan, Minping, Shi, Yipeng & Oughton, Sean, Physical Review Fluids, 10, 103703

2024

  1. What is the Reynolds Number of the Solar Wind? [14]
    Wrench, Daniel, Parashar, Tulasi N., Oughton, Sean, de Lange, Kevin & Frean, Marcus, ApJ, 961, 182

2023

  1. New exact Betchov-like relation for the helicity flux in homogeneous turbulence [3]
    Capocci, Damiano, Johnson, Perry L., Oughton, Sean, Biferale, Luca & Linkmann, Moritz, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 963, R1
  2. A Three-dimensional Model for the Evolution of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere [11]
    Kleimann, Jens, Oughton, Sean, Fichtner, Horst & Scherer, Klaus, ApJ, 953, 133

2022

  1. Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere [38]
    Fraternale, Federico, Adhikari, Laxman, Fichtner, Horst, Kim, Tae K., Kleimann, Jens, Oughton, Sean, Pogorelov, Nikolai V., Roytershteyn, Vadim, Smith, Charles W., Usmanov, Arcadi V., Zank, Gary P. & Zhao, Lingling, Space Science Reviews, 218, 50
  2. Strategies for Determining the Cascade Rate in MHD Turbulence: Isotropy, Anisotropy, and Spacecraft Sampling [27]
    Wang, Yanwen, Chhiber, Rohit, Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Shay, Michael A., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Cuesta, Manuel E., ApJ, 937, 76

2020

  1. A detailed examination of anisotropy and timescales in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [9]
    Chhiber, Rohit, Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean & Parashar, Tulasi N., Physics of Plasmas, 27, 062308
  2. On the Generation of Compressible Mirror-mode Fluctuations in the Inner Heliosheath [18]
    Fichtner, Horst, Kleimann, Jens, Yoon, Peter H., Scherer, Klaus, Oughton, Sean & Engelbrecht, N. Eugene, ApJ, 901, 76
  3. Critical Balance and the Physics of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence [66]
    Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., ApJ, 897, 37

2019

  1. Evolution of similarity lengths in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [14]
    Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean & Wan, Minping, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876, 5

2017

  1. Reduced MHD in Astrophysical Applications: Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional? [28]
    Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H. & Dmitruk, P., ApJ, 839, 2

2016

  1. Variance anisotropy in compressible 3-D MHD [16]
    Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, Minping & Parashar, Tulasi, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 121, 5041
  2. Variance Anisotropy in Kinetic Plasmas [17]
    Parashar, Tulasi N., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Wan, Minping, ApJ, 824, 44
  3. A Generalized Two-component Model of Solar Wind Turbulence and ab initio Diffusion Mean-Free Paths and Drift Lengthscales of Cosmic Rays [66]
    Wiengarten, T., Oughton, S., Engelbrecht, N. E., Fichtner, H., Kleimann, J. & Scherer, K., ApJ, 833, 17

2015

  1. Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas [176]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M., Servidio, S., Greco, A., Osman, K. T., Oughton, S. & Dmitruk, P., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 373, 20140154
  2. Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence [124]
    Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M. & Osman, K. T., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 373, 20140152

2014

  1. Nonlinear and Linear Timescales near Kinetic Scales in Solar Wind Turbulence [54]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S., Osman, K. T., Servidio, S., Wan, M., Gary, S. P., Shay, M. A., Valentini, F., Roytershteyn, V., Karimabadi, H. & Chapman, S. C., ApJ, 790, 155
  2. Complexity and Diffusion of Magnetic Flux Surfaces in Anisotropic Turbulence [18]
    Servidio, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Wan, M., Ruffolo, D., Rappazzo, A. F. & Oughton, S., ApJ, 785, 56
  3. Dissipation and Reconnection in Boundary-driven Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics [34]
    Wan, Minping, Rappazzo, Antonio Franco, Matthaeus, William H., Servidio, Sergio & Oughton, Sean, ApJ, 797, 63

2013

  1. Scaling anisotropy of the power in parallel and perpendicular components of the solar wind magnetic field [2]
    Forman, Miriam A., Wicks, Robert T., Horbury, Timothy S. & Oughton, Sean, Solar Wind 13 (Editors: Zank, Gary P., Borovsky, Joe, Bruno, Roberto, Cirtain, Jonathan, Cranmer, Steve, Elliott, Heather, Giacalone, Joe, Gonzalez, Walter, Li, Gang, Marsch, Eckart, Moebius, Ebehard, Pogorelov, Nick, Spann, Jim & Verkhoglyadova, Olga), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, p. 167
  2. On the Origin of Anisotropy in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: The Role of Higher-order Correlations [23]
    Oughton, Sean, Wan, Minping, Servidio, Sergio & Matthaeus, William H., ApJ, 768, 10
  3. Solar wind fluctuations and the von Kármán-Howarth equations: The role of fourth-order correlations [0]
    Oughton, Sean, Wan, Minping, Matthaeus, William H. & Servidio, Sergio, Solar Wind 13 (Editors: Zank, Gary P., Borovsky, Joe, Bruno, Roberto, Cirtain, Jonathan, Cranmer, Steve, Elliott, Heather, Giacalone, Joe, Gonzalez, Walter, Li, Gang, Marsch, Eckart, Moebius, Ebehard, Pogorelov, Nick, Spann, Jim & Verkhoglyadova, Olga), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1539, p. 251
  4. Magnetic Field Line Random Walk in Models and Simulations of Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence [22]
    Snodin, A. P., Ruffolo, D., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., ApJ, 779, 56
  5. Generation of X-points and secondary islands in 2D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [40]
    Wan, Minping, Matthaeus, William H., Servidio, Sergio & Oughton, Sean, Physics of Plasmas, 20, 042307

2012

  1. Local Anisotropy, Higher Order Statistics, and Turbulence Spectra [59]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Servidio, S., Dmitruk, P., Carbone, V., Oughton, S., Wan, M. & Osman, K. T., ApJ, 750, 103
  2. von Kármán self-preservation hypothesis for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and its consequences for universality [70]
    Wan, Minping, Oughton, Sean, Servidio, Sergio & Matthaeus, William H., Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 697, 296
  3. Investigation of Intermittency in Magnetohydrodynamics and Solar Wind Turbulence: Scale-dependent Kurtosis [36]
    Wan, Minping, Osman, Kareem T., Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, ApJ, 744, 171
  4. Power Anisotropy in the Magnetic Field Power Spectral Tensor of Solar Wind Turbulence [31]
    Wicks, R. T., Forman, M. A., Horbury, T. S. & Oughton, S., ApJ, 746, 103

2011

  1. Directional Alignment and Non-Gaussian Statistics in Solar Wind Turbulence [31]
    Osman, K. T., Wan, M., Matthaeus, W. H., Breech, B. & Oughton, S., ApJ, 741, 75
  2. Transport of solar wind fluctuations: A two-component model [102]
    Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Smith, C. W., Breech, B. & Isenberg, P. A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 116, A08105
  3. Nonlocality and the critical Reynolds numbers of the minimum state magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [10]
    Zhou, Ye & Oughton, Sean, Physics of Plasmas, 18, 072304

2010

  1. Heating of the solar wind with electron and proton effects [15]
    Breech, Ben, Cranmer, Steven R., Matthaeus, William H., Kasper, Justin C. & Oughton, Sean, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 214
  2. Statistical properties of solar wind discontinuities, intermittent turbulence, and rapid emergence of non-Gaussian distributions [3]
    Greco, A., Matthaeus, W. H., Servidio, S., Dmitruk, P., Wan, M., Oughton, S. & Chuychai, P., Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 202
  3. Solar Wind Turbulent Heating by Interstellar Pickup Protons: 2-Component Model [4]
    Isenberg, Philip A., Oughton, Sean, Smith, Charles W. & Matthaeus, William H., Pickup Ions Throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond (Editors: Le Roux, Jakobus, Zank, Gary P., Coates, Andrew J. & Florinski, Vladimir), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1302, p. 180
  4. A Two-component Transport Model for Solar Wind Fluctuations: Waves plus Quasi-2D Turbulence [1]
    Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W. & Breech, Ben, Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 210
  5. A Turbulence-Driven Model for Heating and Acceleration of the Fast Wind in Coronal Holes [207]
    Verdini, A., Velli, M., Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S. & Dmitruk, P., ApJ, 708, L116
  6. The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear [5]
    Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference (Editors: Maksimovic, M., Issautier, K., Meyer-Vernet, N., Moncuquet, M. & Pantellini, F.), American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1216, p. 172
  7. The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with shear: Numerical investigation [41]
    Wan, M., Servidio, S., Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 052307
  8. On the accuracy of simulations of turbulence [49]
    Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 082308

2009

  1. Electron and proton heating by solar wind turbulence [96]
    Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Cranmer, S. R., Kasper, J. C. & Oughton, S., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 114, A09103
  2. Anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic spectral transfer in the diffusion approximation [28]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, S. & Zhou, Y., Physical Review E, 79, 035401
  3. The third-order law for increments in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear [50]
    Wan, M., Servidio, S., Oughton, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 090703
  4. Generation of non-Gaussian statistics and coherent structures in ideal magnetohydrodynamics [39]
    Wan, M., Oughton, S., Servidio, S. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 080703

2008

  1. Turbulence transport throughout the heliosphere [193]
    Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Bieber, J. W., Oughton, S., Smith, C. W. & Isenberg, P. A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 113, A08105
  2. Anisotropic Scaling of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence [386]
    Horbury, Timothy S., Forman, Miriam & Oughton, Sean, Physical Review Letters, 101, 175005

2007

  1. The impact of small-scale turbulence on laminar magnetic reconnection [12]
    Watson, P. G., Oughton, S. & Craig, I. J. D., Physics of Plasmas, 14, 032301

2006

  1. A two-component phenomenology for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [66]
    Oughton, S., Dmitruk, P. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 13, 042306

2005

  1. Radial evolution of cross helicity in high-latitude solar wind [74]
    Breech, B., Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Oughton, S., Parhi, S., Bieber, J. W. & Bavassano, B., Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L06103
  2. Direct comparisons of compressible magnetohydrodynamics and reduced magnetohydrodynamics turbulence [25]
    Dmitruk, Pablo, Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 112304
  3. Spacecraft observations of solar wind turbulence: an overview [99]
    Horbury, T. S., Forman, M. A. & Oughton, S., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 47, B703
  4. Propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in stellar atmospheres permeated by isothermal winds [13]
    Verdini, A., Velli, M. & Oughton, S., A&A, 444, 233

2004

  1. Transport of cross helicity and radial evolution of Alfvénicity in the solar wind [79]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Minnie, J., Breech, B., Parhi, S., Bieber, J. W. & Oughton, S., Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L12803
  2. Reduced magnetohydrodynamics and parallel spectral transfer [53]
    Oughton, S., Dmitruk, P. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2214

2003

  1. Impact of Hall effect on energy decay in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [29]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Dmitruk, P., Smith, D., Ghosh, S. & Oughton, S., Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 2104

2002

  1. Coronal Heating Distribution Due to Low-Frequency, Wave-driven Turbulence [172]
    Dmitruk, P., Matthaeus, W. H., Milano, L. J., Oughton, S., Zank, G. P. & Mullan, D. J., ApJ, 575, 571

2001

  1. Complexity in astroplasmas [0]
    Chapman, Sandra, Freeman, Mervyn & Oughton, Sean, Astronomy and Geophysics, 42, 2.22
  2. Conditions for sustainment of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by Alfvén waves [30]
    Dmitruk, P., Matthaeus, W. H., Milano, L. J. & Oughton, S., Physics of Plasmas, 8, 2377
  3. A Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Model of Coronal Heating in Open Magnetic Regions Driven by Reflected Low-Frequency Alfvén Waves [75]
    Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Dmitruk, P., Milano, L. J., Zank, G. P. & Mullan, D. J., ApJ, 551, 565
  4. Heating of the low-latitude solar wind by dissipation of turbulent magnetic fluctuations [279]
    Smith, Charles W., Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, Gary P., Ness, Norman F., Oughton, Sean & Richardson, John D., Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 8253
  5. What can we infer about the underlying physics from burst distributions observed in an RMHD simulation? [9]
    Watkins, N. W., Oughton, S. & Freeman, M. P., Planetary and Space Science, 49, 1233

2000

  1. MHD-driven Kinetic Dissipation in the Solar Wind and Corona [230]
    Leamon, R. J., Matthaeus, W. H., Smith, C. W., Zank, G. P., Mullan, D. J. & Oughton, S., ApJ, 537, 1054
  2. Kinetic helicity and MHD turbulence [3]
    Oughton, Sean & Prandi, Rossella, Journal of Plasma Physics, 64, 179

1999

  1. Fluctuations, Dissipation and Heating in the Corona [11]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Leamon, R. J., Smith, C. W., Mullan, D. J. & Oughton, S., Space Science Reviews, 87, 269
  2. Turbulence, Spatial Transport, and Heating of the Solar Wind [230]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Smith, C. W. & Oughton, S., Physical Review Letters, 82, 3444
  3. Coronal Heating by Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Driven by Reflected Low-Frequency Waves [355]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Mullan, D. J. & Dmitruk, P., ApJ, 523, L93

1998

  1. Scaling of Anisotropy in Hydromagnetic Turbulence [94]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Oughton, Sean, Ghosh, Sanjoy & Hossain, Murshed, Physical Review Letters, 81, 2056
  2. Dynamical age of solar wind turbulence in the outer heliosphere [44]
    Matthaeus, William H., Smith, Charles W. & Oughton, Sean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 6495
  3. Scaling of spectral anisotropy with magnetic field strength in decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [55]
    Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Ghosh, Sanjoy, Physics of Plasmas, 5, 4235

1997

  1. General second-rank correlation tensors for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [47]
    Oughton, S., Rädler, K.-H. & Matthaeus, W. H., Physical Review E, 56, 2875
  2. Energy dynamics in linear MHD with ion parallel viscosity [2]
    Oughton, Sean, Journal of Plasma Physics, 58, 571

1996

  1. Anisotropic three-dimensional MHD turbulence [222]
    Matthaeus, William H., Ghosh, Sanjoy, Oughton, Sean & Roberts, D. Aaron, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 7619

1995

  1. Phenomenology for the decay of energy-containing eddies in homogeneous MHD turbulence [172]
    Hossain, Murshed, Gray, Perry C., Pontius, Duane H., Jr., Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, Physics of Fluids, 7, 2886
  2. Reply [3]
    Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean, Pontius, Duane H. & Zhou, Ye, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 12329
  3. Linear transport of solar wind fluctuations [32]
    Oughton, Sean & Matthaeus, William H., Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 14783
  4. Magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a mean magnetic field [13]
    Stribling, Troy, Matthaeus, William H. & Oughton, Sean, Physics of Plasmas, 2, 1437

1994

  1. Transport theory and the WKB approximation for interplanetary MHD fluctuations [21]
    Matthaeus, William H., Zhou, Ye, Zank, G. P. & Oughton, S., Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 23421
  2. Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind [119]
    Matthaeus, William H., Oughton, Sean, Pontius, Duane H., Jr. & Zhou, Ye, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 19267
  3. The influence of a mean magnetic field on three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [304]
    Oughton, S., Priest, E. R. & Matthaeus, W. H., Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 280, 95

1992

  1. Relaxation in two dimensions and the ''sinh-Poisson'' equation [156]
    Montgomery, D., Matthaeus, W. H., Stribling, W. T., Martinez, D. & Oughton, S., Physics of Fluids A, 4, 3
  2. Properties of mass-loading shocks 2. Magnetohydrodynamics [12]
    Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Neubauer, F. M. & Webb, G. M., Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 17051

1991

  1. Decaying, two-dimensional, Navier-Stokes turbulence at very long times [96]
    Matthaeus, W. H., Stribling, W. T., Martinez, D., Oughton, S. & Montgomery, D., Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, 51, 531
  2. Selective decay and coherent vortices in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence [104]
    Matthaeus, William H., Stribling, W. Troy, Martinez, Daniel, Oughton, Sean & Montgomery, David, Physical Review Letters, 66, 2731
  3. Properties of mass-loading shocks 1. Hydrodynamic considerations [16]
    Zank, G. P. & Oughton, S., Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 9439
  4. Mass-loading and parallel magnetized shocks [7]
    Zank, G. P., Oughton, S., Neubauer, F. M. & Webb, G. M., Geophysical Research Letters, 18, 1809

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