First-authored, refereed papers of G. Nicolaou

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of G. Nicolaou, 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: 0000-0003-3623-4928

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 21
No. of citations: 464

2025

1. How does the limited resolution of space plasma analyzers affect the accuracy of space plasma measurements? [1]
   Nicolaou, G., Ioannou, C., Owen, C. J., Verscharen, D., Fedorov, A. & Louarn, P., Review of Scientific Instruments, 96, 075203

2024

1. Artificial Polytropic Behavior of Plasmas Determined from the Application of Chi-squared Minimization Analysis to Data with Significant Statistical Uncertainty [3]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Ioannou, Charalambos, ApJ, 977, 168

2023

1. The Polytropic Behavior of Solar Wind Protons as Observed by the Ulysses Spacecraft during Solar Minimum [15]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & McComas, David J., ApJ, 948, 22

2022

1. Effects of background noise on fit parameters of plasma scattering angle distributions [3]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Allegrini, Frederic, Livadiotis, George & Ebert, Robert W., Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 103305

2021

1. Deriving the bulk properties of solar wind electrons observed by Solar Orbiter. A preliminary study of electron plasma thermodynamics [12]
   Nicolaou, G., Wicks, R. T., Owen, C. J., Kataria, D. O., Chandrasekhar, A., Lewis, G. R., Verscharen, D., Fortunato, V., Mele, G., DeMarco, R. & Bruno, R., A&A, 656, A10
2. Significance of Bernoulli Integral Terms for the Solar Wind Protons at 1 au [5]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Desai, Mihir I., Applied Sciences, 11, 4643
3. Estimating the Polytropic Indices of Plasmas with Partial Temperature Tensor Measurements: Application to Solar Wind Protons at ~1 au [3]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Desai, Mihir I., Applied Sciences, 11, 4019

2020

1. Evaluating the Performance of a Plasma Analyzer for a Space Weather Monitor Mission Concept [13]
   Nicolaou, G., Wicks, R. T., Rae, I. J. & Kataria, D. O., Space Weather, 18, e2020SW002559
2. Statistical Uncertainties of Space Plasma Properties Described by Kappa Distributions [11]
   Nicolaou, Georgios & Livadiotis, George, Entropy, 22, 541
3. On the Determination of Kappa Distribution Functions from Space Plasma Observations [16]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Wicks, Robert T., Entropy, 22, 212
4. Determining the Bulk Parameters of Plasma Electrons from Pitch-Angle Distribution Measurements [15]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Wicks, Robert, Livadiotis, George, Verscharen, Daniel, Owen, Christopher & Kataria, Dhiren, Entropy, 22, 103

2019

1. The Impact of Turbulent Solar Wind Fluctuations on Solar Orbiter Plasma Proton Measurements [20]
   Nicolaou, G., Verscharen, D., Wicks, R. T. & Owen, C. J., ApJ, 886, 101
2. Long-term Correlations of Polytropic Indices with Kappa Distributions in Solar Wind Plasma near 1 au [46]
   Nicolaou, G. & Livadiotis, G., ApJ, 884, 52
3. On the Calculation of the Effective Polytropic Index in Space Plasmas [27]
   Nicolaou, Georgios, Livadiotis, George & Wicks, Robert T., Entropy, 21, 997

2018

1. Determining the Kappa Distributions of Space Plasmas from Observations in a Limited Energy Range [39]
   Nicolaou, G., Livadiotis, G., Owen, C. J., Verscharen, D. & Wicks, R. T., ApJ, 864, 3

2017

1. Modeling the Plasma Flow in the Inner Heliosheath with a Spatially Varying Compression Ratio [14]
   Nicolaou, G. & Livadiotis, G., ApJ, 838, 7

2016

1. Misestimation of temperature when applying Maxwellian distributions to space plasmas described by kappa distributions [44]
   Nicolaou, Georgios & Livadiotis, George, Astrophysics and Space Science, 361, 359

2015

1. Plasma properties in the deep jovian magnetotail [27]
   Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F., Elliott, H. A. & Wilson, R. J., Planetary and Space Science, 119, 222
2. Jupiter's deep magnetotail boundary layer [23]
   Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F., Elliott, H. A. & Ebert, R. W., Planetary and Space Science, 111, 116

2014

1. Long-Term Variability of the Polytropic Index of Solar Wind Protons at 1 AU [75]
   Nicolaou, G., Livadiotis, G. & Moussas, X., Solar Physics, 289, 1371
2. Properties of plasma ions in the distant Jovian magnetosheath using Solar Wind Around Pluto data on New Horizons [52]
   Nicolaou, G., McComas, D. J., Bagenal, F. & Elliott, H. A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 119, 3463