First-authored, refereed papers of P. Sharma Pyakurel, ordered by citations

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of P. Sharma Pyakurel, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4832-7638

98	Transition from ion-coupled to electron-only reconnection: Basic physics and implications for plasma turbulence Sharma Pyakurel, P., Shay, M. A., Phan, T. D., Matthaeus, W. H., Drake, J. F., TenBarge, J. M., Haggerty, C. C., Klein, K. G., Cassak, P. A., Parashar, T. N., Swisdak, M. & Chasapis, A., 2019, Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082307
25	Faster Form of Electron Magnetic Reconnection with a Finite Length X-Line Pyakurel, P. S., Shay, M. A., Drake, J. F., Phan, T. D., Cassak, P. A. & Verniero, J. L., 2021, Physical Review Letters, 127, 155101
11	Super-Alfvénic Propagation and Damping of Reconnection Onset Signatures Sharma Pyakurel, P., Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Parashar, T. N., Drake, J. F., Cassak, P. A. & Gary, S. Peter, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 123, 341
8	On the Short-scale Spatial Variability of Electron Inflows in Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath Observed by MMS Pyakurel, P. S., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Øieroset, M., Haggerty, C. C., Stawarz, J., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Torbert, R. B., Strangeway, R. J. & Russell, C. T., 2023, ApJ, 948, 20
4	Detection of Large Guide Field Electron-Only Reconnection in a Filamentary Current Sheet Immersed in a Large-Scale Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust Pyakurel, P. S., Phan, T. D., Øieroset, M., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Mallet, A., Stawarz, J., Wang, S., Oka, M., Genestreti, K. J., Ahmadi, N., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L. & Strangeway, R. J., 2025, Physical Review Letters, 134, 115201
1	Kinetic Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection with Pickup Ions: Shell Stability and Reconnection Rate Analysis Pyakurel, P. S., Swisdak, M., Eriksson, S., Shrestha, B. L., Liu, Y.-H., TenBarge, J. M., Shay, M. A. & Phan, T. D., 2025, ApJ, 988, 119
0	The Dependence of Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection on Plasma Beta and Magnetic Shear: Theory and Observations Pyakurel, P. S., Mallet, A., Phan, T. D., Swisdak, M., Øieroset, M. & Burch, J. L., 2026, ApJ, 1002, 153