Publications of Alphonse C. Sterling

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Alphonse C. Sterling, 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: 0000-0003-1281-897X

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 56 (refereed: 56)
No. of citations: 1702
First author papers: 13 (refereed: 13)

2026

  1. Observations of a Twin Pair of Atypical Solar Flares and a Magnetic Reconnection Scenario [0]
    Agarwal, Satyam, Sterling, Alphonse C., Mathew, Shibu K., Moore, Ronald L., Hu, Qiang & Bhattacharyya, Ramit, ApJ, 1000, 210
  2. The Making of Delta Sunspots [1]
    Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Aparna, V., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Sterling, Alphonse C., ApJ, 1000, 270
  3. Extreme Ultraviolet Microflashes at Plume Bases: A Candidate for Powering the Corona and Solar Wind? [0]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Jin, Meng, Weitz, Ayla, Moore, Ronald L., Aparna, V. & Sterling, Alphonse C., ApJ, 1005, 33
  4. Potential Solar Precursors to Magnetic Switchbacks [0]
    Tripathi, Durgesh, Madjarska, Maria S., Karpen, Judy, Velli, Marco, Froment, Clara, Pariat, Etienne, Patsourakos, Spiros, Raouafi, Nour E., Rouillard, Alexis P., Sterling, Alphonse C., Tziotziou, Kostas & Wyper, Peter F., Space Science Reviews, 222, 60
  5. Magnetic Switchback Formation: A Review of Proposed Mechanisms [3]
    Wyper, Peter F., Squire, Jonathan, Pariat, Etienne, Agapitov, Oleksiy V., Drake, Jim F., Magyar, Norbert, Matthaeus, William H., Matteini, Lorenzo, Ruffolo, David, Réville, Victor, Shi, Chen, Shoda, Munehito, Swisdak, Marc, Velli, Marco, Akhavan-Tafti, Mojtaba, Gannouni, Bahaeddine, Lionello, Roberto, Madjarska, Maria S., Owens, Mathew J., Raouafi, Nour E., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Tripathi, Durgesh, Space Science Reviews, 222, 43
  6. Turbulence and Its Potential Impact on Solar Chromospheric and Coronal Heating [2]
    Zank, G. P., Li, Xiaocan, Khanal, K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Nakanotani, M., Zhao, L.-L., Adhikari, L., Yalim, M., Athiray, P. S., Guo, Fan & Moore, R. L., ApJ, 1004, 143

2025

  1. Formation of Chromospheric Fan-shaped Jets through Magnetic Reconnection [2]
    Bura, Annu, Samanta, Tanmoy, Prasad, Avijeet, Moore, Ronald L., Sterling, Alphonse C., Yurchyshyn, Vasyl & Surya, Arun, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 985, L47
  2. Unveiling the Dynamics and Genesis of Small-scale Fine-structure Loops in the Lower Solar Atmosphere [3]
    Bura, Annu, Samanta, Tanmoy, Sterling, Alphonse C., Chen, Yajie, Joshi, Jayant, Yurchyshyn, Vasyl & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 983, 144
  3. Pivot of the Emerging Bipolar Magnetic Region in the Birth of Sigmoidal Solar Active Regions [1]
    Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Aparna, V., Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Singh, Talwinder, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 989, L54
  4. Buildup, Explosion, and Untwisting of a Solar Active Region Jet Observed with Solar Orbiter, IRIS, and SDO [3]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Berghmans, David, Zhukov, Andrei, Mierla, Marilena, Verbeeck, Cis & Stegen, Koen, ApJ, 994, 164
  5. Surprisingly Large Doppler Shifts in Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) Solar Spectra Resulting from an Inconspicuous Small-scale Jet in Extreme-ultraviolet Images [0]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Harra, Louise K., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Moore, Ronald L., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 995, L56

2024

  1. Stealth Non-standard-model Confined Flare Eruptions: Sudden Reconnection Events in Ostensibly Inert Magnetic Arches from Sunspots [2]
    Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Panesar, Navdeep K., Aparna, V. & Sterling, Alphonse C., ApJ, 975, 20
  2. Source Region and Launch Characteristics of Magnetic-arch-blowout Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Driven by Homologous Compact-flare Blowout Jets [4]
    Patel, Binal D., Joshi, Bhuwan, Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 969, 48
  3. Transition Region Brightening in a Moss Region and Their Relation with Lower Atmospheric Dynamics [1]
    Ram, Bhinva, Samanta, Tanmoy, Chen, Yajie, Sterling, Alphonse C., Joshi, Jayant, Yurchyshyn, Vasyl, Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep & Pant, Vaibhav, ApJ, 977, 25
  4. How Small-scale Jetlike Solar Events from Miniature Flux Rope Eruptions Might Produce the Solar Wind [15]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 963, 4
  5. Solar Active Region Coronal Jets. III. Hidden-onset Jets [9]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L. & Panesar, Navdeep K., ApJ, 960, 109

2023

  1. The source of unusual coronal upflows with photospheric abundance in a solar active region [3]
    Harra, L. K., Mandrini, C. H., Brooks, D. H., Barczynski, K., Mac Cormack, C., Cristiani, G., Mandal, S., Sterling, A. C., Martinez Pillet, V., Janitzek, N., Schühle, U., Berghmans, D., Auchère, F., Aznar Cuadrado, R., Buchlin, E., Kraaikamp, E., Long, D., Parenti, S., Peter, H., Rodriguez, L., Smith, P., Teriaca, L., Verbeeck, C. & Zhukov, A. N., A&A, 675, A20
  2. The short-term stability and tilting motion of a well-observed low-latitude solar coronal hole [5]
    Heinemann, Stephan G., Hofmeister, Stefan J., Turtle, James A., Pomoell, Jens, Asvestari, Eleanna, Sterling, Alphonse C., Diercke, Andrea & Downs, Cooper, A&A, 679, A100
  3. Prospective Implications of Extreme-ultraviolet Coronal Plumes for Magnetic-network Genesis of Coronal Heating, Coronal-hole Solar Wind, and Solar-wind Magnetic Field Switchbacks [6]
    Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Sterling, Alphonse C., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 945, L16
  4. Formation of an observed eruptive flux rope above the torus instability threshold through tether-cutting magnetic reconnection [13]
    Prasad, A., Kumar, S., Sterling, A. C., Moore, R. L., Aulanier, G., Bhattacharyya, R. & Hu, Q., A&A, 677, A43
  5. Magnetic Reconnection as the Driver of the Solar Wind [133]
    Raouafi, Nour E., Stenborg, G., Seaton, D. B., Wang, H., Wang, J., DeForest, C. E., Bale, S. D., Drake, J. F., Uritsky, V. M., Karpen, J. T., DeVore, C. R., Sterling, A. C., Horbury, T. S., Harra, L. K., Bourouaine, S., Kasper, J. C., Kumar, P., Phan, T. D. & Velli, M., ApJ, 945, 28
  6. Small-scale EUV features as the drivers of coronal upflows in the quiet Sun [9]
    Schwanitz, Conrad, Harra, Louise, Mandrini, Cristina H., Sterling, Alphonse C., Raouafi, Nour E., Mac Cormack, Cecilia, Berghmans, David, Auchère, Frédéric, Barczynski, Krzysztof, Aznar Cuadrado, Regina, Buchlin, Éric, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Parenti, Susanna, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Smith, Phil, Teriaca, Luca, Verbeeck, Cis & Zhukov, Andrei N., A&A, 674, A219

2022

  1. Further Evidence for the Minifilament-eruption Scenario for Solar Polar Coronal Jets [9]
    Baikie, Tomi K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Alexander, Amanda M., Falconer, David A., Savcheva, Antonia & Savage, Sabrina L., ApJ, 927, 79
  2. Bipolar Ephemeral Active Regions, Magnetic Flux Cancellation, and Solar Magnetic Explosions [12]
    Moore, Ronald L., Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Tiwari, Sanjiv K., ApJ, 933, 12
  3. Genesis and Coronal-jet-generating Eruption of a Solar Minifilament Captured by IRIS Slit-raster Spectra [17]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Moore, Ronald L., Sterling, Alphonse C. & De Pontieu, Bart, ApJ, 939, 25
  4. Homologous Compact Major Blowout-eruption Solar Flares and their Production of Broad CMEs [6]
    Sahu, Suraj, Joshi, Bhuwan, Sterling, Alphonse C., Mitra, Prabir K. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 930, 41
  5. Inconspicuous Solar Polar Coronal X-Ray Jets as the Source of Conspicuous Hinode/EUV Imaging Spectrometer Doppler Outflows [10]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Schwanitz, Conrad, Harra, Louise K., Raouafi, Nour E., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 940, 85
  6. Another Look at Erupting Minifilaments at the Base of Solar X-Ray Polar Coronal "Standard" and "Blowout" Jets [25]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L. & Panesar, Navdeep K., ApJ, 927, 127

2021

  1. What Causes Faint Solar Coronal Jets from Emerging Flux Regions in Coronal Holes? [4]
    Harden, Abigail R., Panesar, Navdeep K., Moore, Ronald L., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Adams, Mitzi L., ApJ, 912, 97
  2. Relation of Microstreams in the Polar Solar Wind to Switchbacks and Coronal X-Ray Jets [24]
    Neugebauer, Marcia & Sterling, Alphonse C., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 920, L31
  3. Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) [99]
    Rast, Mark P., Bello González, Nazaret, Bellot Rubio, Luis, Cao, Wenda, Cauzzi, Gianna, Deluca, Edward, de Pontieu, Bart, Fletcher, Lyndsay, Gibson, Sarah E., Judge, Philip G., Katsukawa, Yukio, Kazachenko, Maria D., Khomenko, Elena, Landi, Enrico, Martínez Pillet, Valentín, Petrie, Gordon J. D., Qiu, Jiong, Rachmeler, Laurel A., Rempel, Matthias, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Scullion, Eamon, Sun, Xudong, Welsch, Brian T., Andretta, Vincenzo, Antolin, Patrick, Ayres, Thomas R., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Ballai, Istvan, Berger, Thomas E., Bradshaw, Stephen J., Campbell, Ryan J., Carlsson, Mats, Casini, Roberto, Centeno, Rebecca, Cranmer, Steven R., Criscuoli, Serena, Deforest, Craig, Deng, Yuanyong, Erdélyi, Robertus, Fedun, Viktor, Fischer, Catherine E., González Manrique, Sergio J., Hahn, Michael, Harra, Louise, Henriques, Vasco M. J., Hurlburt, Neal E., Jaeggli, Sarah, Jafarzadeh, Shahin, Jain, Rekha, Jefferies, Stuart M., Keys, Peter H., Kowalski, Adam F., Kuckein, Christoph, Kuhn, Jeffrey R., Kuridze, David, Liu, Jiajia, Liu, Wei, Longcope, Dana, Mathioudakis, Mihalis, McAteer, R. T. James, McIntosh, Scott W., McKenzie, David E., Miralles, Mari Paz, Morton, Richard J., Muglach, Karin, Nelson, Chris J., Panesar, Navdeep K., Parenti, Susanna, Parnell, Clare E., Poduval, Bala, Reardon, Kevin P., Reep, Jeffrey W., Schad, Thomas A., Schmit, Donald, Sharma, Rahul, Socas-Navarro, Hector, Srivastava, Abhishek K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Suematsu, Yoshinori, Tarr, Lucas A., Tiwari, Sanjiv, Tritschler, Alexandra, Verth, Gary, Vourlidas, Angelos, Wang, Haimin, Wang, Yi-Ming, NSO and DKIST Project, DKIST Instrument Scientists, DKIST Science Working Group & DKIST Critical Science Plan Community, Solar Physics, 296, 70
  4. The Missing Cool Corona in the Flat Magnetic Field around Solar Active Regions [7]
    Singh, Talwinder, Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 909, 57

2020

  1. Sequential Lid Removal in a Triple-decker Chain of CME-producing Solar Eruptions [9]
    Joshi, Navin Chandra, Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L. & Joshi, Bhuwan, ApJ, 901, 38
  2. On Making Magnetic-flux-rope Ω Loops for Solar Bipolar Magnetic Regions of All Sizes by Convection Cells [4]
    Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Sterling, Alphonse C., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 902, L35
  3. Network Jets as the Driver of Counter-streaming Flows in a Solar Filament/Filament Channel [25]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Moore, Ronald L. & Sterling, Alphonse C., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 897, L2
  4. Onset of Magnetic Explosion in Solar Coronal Jets in Quiet Regions on the Central Disk [22]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Moore, Ronald L. & Sterling, Alphonse C., ApJ, 894, 104
  5. Coronal-jet-producing Minifilament Eruptions as a Possible Source of Parker Solar Probe Switchbacks [86]
    Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896, L18
  6. Possible Production of Solar Spicules by Microfilament Eruptions [26]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Samanta, Tanmoy & Yurchyshyn, Vasyl, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 893, L45
  7. Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Small-scale Miniature-filament-eruption-like Cool Ejections in an Active Region Plage [15]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Panesar, Navdeep K., Reardon, Kevin P., Molnar, Momchil, Rachmeler, Laurel A., Savage, Sabrina L. & Winebarger, Amy R., ApJ, 889, 187

2019

  1. Achievements of Hinode in the first eleven years [85]
    Hinode Review Team, Al-Janabi, Khalid, Antolin, Patrick, Baker, Deborah, Bellot Rubio, Luis R., Bradley, Louisa, Brooks, David H., Centeno, Rebecca, Culhane, J. Leonard, Del Zanna, Giulio, Doschek, George A., Fletcher, Lyndsay, Hara, Hirohisa, Harra, Louise K., Hillier, Andrew S., Imada, Shinsuke, Klimchuk, James A., Mariska, John T., Pereira, Tiago M. D., Reeves, Katharine K., Sakao, Taro, Sakurai, Takashi, Shimizu, Toshifumi, Shimojo, Masumi, Shiota, Daikou, Solanki, Sami K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Su, Yingna, Suematsu, Yoshinori, Tarbell, Theodore D., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Toriumi, Shin, Ugarte-Urra, Ignacio, Warren, Harry P., Watanabe, Tetsuya & Young, Peter R., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71, R1
  2. Magnetic Flux Cancellation as the Trigger Mechanism of Solar Coronal Jets [52]
    McGlasson, Riley A., Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 882, 16
  3. Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Jetlet-like Events at Edges of Solar Magnetic Network Lanes [55]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Winebarger, Amy R., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Savage, Sabrina L., Golub, Leon E., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Peter, Hardi, Testa, Paola, Walsh, Robert W. & Warren, Harry P., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 887, L8
  4. A Two-sided Loop X-Ray Solar Coronal Jet Driven by a Minifilament Eruption [26]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Harra, Louise K., Moore, Ronald L. & Falconer, David A., ApJ, 871, 220

2018

  1. Onset of the Magnetic Explosion in Solar Polar Coronal X-Ray Jets [44]
    Moore, Ronald L., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Panesar, Navdeep K., ApJ, 859, 3
  2. IRIS and SDO Observations of Solar Jetlets Resulting from Network-edge Flux Cancelation [70]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., De Pontieu, Bart & Norton, Aimee A., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 868, L27
  3. Magnetic Flux Cancelation as the Trigger of Solar Coronal Jets in Coronal Holes [89]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 853, 189
  4. Magnetic Flux Cancelation as the Buildup and Trigger Mechanism for CME-producing Eruptions in Two Small Active Regions [56]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L. & Panesar, Navdeep K., ApJ, 864, 68
  5. Evidence of Twisting and Mixed-polarity Solar Photospheric Magnetic Field in Large Penumbral Jets: IRIS and Hinode Observations [22]
    Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Moore, Ronald L., De Pontieu, Bart, Tarbell, Theodore D., Panesar, Navdeep K., Winebarger, Amy R. & Sterling, Alphonse C., ApJ, 869, 147

2017

  1. Onset of a Large Ejective Solar Eruption from a Typical Coronal-jet-base Field Configuration [35]
    Joshi, Navin Chandra, Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Magara, Tetsuya & Moon, Yong-Jae, ApJ, 845, 26
  2. Magnetic Flux Cancellation as the Origin of Solar Quiet-region Pre-jet Minifilaments [91]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 844, 131
  3. Solar Active Region Coronal Jets. II. Triggering and Evolution of Violent Jets [73]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Falconer, David A., Panesar, Navdeep K. & Martinez, Francisco, ApJ, 844, 28

2016

  1. Magnetic Flux Cancelation as the Trigger of Solar Quiet-region Coronal Jets [143]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L. & Chakrapani, Prithi, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 832, L7
  2. Homologous Jet-driven Coronal Mass Ejections from Solar Active Region 12192 [63]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 822, L23
  3. A Microfilament-eruption Mechanism for Solar Spicules [44]
    Sterling, Alphonse C. & Moore, Ronald L., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 828, L9
  4. Minifilament Eruptions that Drive Coronal Jets in a Solar Active Region [126]
    Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Falconer, David A., Panesar, Navdeep K., Akiyama, Sachiko, Yashiro, Seiji & Gopalswamy, Nat, ApJ, 821, 100

2015

  1. Destabilization of a Solar Prominence/Filament Field System by a Series of Eight Homologous Eruptive Flares Leading to a CME [13]
    Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Innes, Davina E. & Moore, Ronald L., ApJ, 811, 5

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