Ethan Vishniac

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Ethan Vishniac is affiliated with the following schools: University of Saskatchewan, University of Rochester, Harvard University, Rice University, University of Texas at Austin, McMaster University, University of Chicago, University of Manitoba, Johns Hopkins University

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PhD Physics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac is an American astrophysicist. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysical Journal and a professor of Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, after holding positions at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and University of Texas in Austin.

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Reconnection in a Weakly Stochastic Field (1998) (704)
The Anisotropy of Magnetohydrodynamic Alfvénic Turbulence (2000) (402)
Simulations of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in a Strongly Magnetized Medium (2001) (340)
The dynamic and gravitational instabilities of spherical shocks (1983) (336)
The Anisotropy of MHD Alfv\'{e}nic Turbulence (2000) (288)
NONLINEAR INSTABILITIES IN SHOCK-BOUNDED SLABS (1993) (260)
NUMERICAL TESTS OF FAST RECONNECTION IN WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS (2009) (260)
Generation of microwave background fluctuations from nonlinear perturbations at the era of galaxy formation (1986) (206)
Magnetic Helicity Conservation and Astrophysical Dynamos (2000) (192)
Reionization and small-scale fluctuations in the microwave background (1987) (175)
Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (2013) (146)
FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION AND SPONTANEOUS STOCHASTICITY (2011) (129)
Magnetic Field Structure and Stochastic Reconnection in a Partially Ionized Gas (2003) (127)
An Incoherent α-Ω Dynamo in Accretion Disks (1995) (108)
Why weakly non-linear effects are small in a zero-pressure cosmology (1983) (101)
GROWTH OF MAGNETIC FIELDS INDUCED BY TURBULENT MOTIONS (2008) (101)
3D turbulent reconnection: Theory, tests, and astrophysical implications (2020) (101)
The Generation of Magnetic Fields through Driven Turbulence (2000) (95)
New Regime of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Cascade below the Viscous Cutoff (2001) (86)
Turbulent reconnection and its implications (2015) (85)
The growth of linear perturbations of adiabatic shock waves (1987) (85)
Tenacious myths about cosmological perturbations larger than the horizon size (1980) (77)
Gauge-invariant joining conditions for cosmological perturbations (1991) (72)
MHD Turbulence: Scaling Laws and Astrophysical Implications (2002) (68)
On the stability of decelerating shocks (1989) (63)
Reconnection in the Interstellar Medium (1999) (59)
Ordinary and Viscosity-damped Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (2003) (59)
Reconnection studies under different types of turbulence driving (2012) (58)
Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (1990) (57)
Analyzing cosmological perturbations using the covariant approach (1990) (55)
Statistics of Reconnection-driven Turbulence (2016) (53)
A Numerical Gamma-Ray Burst Simulation Using Three-Dimensional Relativistic Hydrodynamics: The Transition from Spherical to Jetlike Expansion (2003) (48)
Cosmic strings and inflation (1987) (44)
The dynamic instability of adiabatic blast waves (1991) (43)
Propagation of adiabatic cosmological perturbations through the ERA of matter-radiation decoupling (1980) (41)
The effect of spherical voids on the microwave background radiation (1987) (39)
Relation of Astrophysical Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection (2011) (36)
Necessary condition for equilibrium in stellar systems with a continuous mass spectrum (1978) (33)
THE SATURATION LIMIT OF THE MAGNETOROTATIONAL INSTABILITY (2009) (33)
A self-consistent model of mass and angular momentum transport in accretion disks (1989) (32)
Fast magnetic reconnection and energetic particle acceleration (2010) (30)
Explosions in the early universe (1985) (29)
Torque Reversal in Accretion-powered X-Ray Pulsars (1997) (29)
Rotational and Cyclical Variability in γ Cassiopeia (2006) (28)
Problems and Progress in Astrophysical Dynamos (2002) (27)
Direct Detection of Black Hole-driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters (2019) (25)
Three-dimensional shape statistics: Methodology (1995) (24)
The Dynamics of Flux Tubes in a High- beta Plasma. I. A General Description (1995) (24)
Gravitational instabilities in a proto-planetary disk (1991) (23)
Inertial-Range Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and in the Solar Wind. (2015) (22)
Dynamo Action by Internal Waves in Accretion Disks (1990) (22)
Recent heavy-particle decay in a matter-dominated universe (1985) (22)
Local Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities and the Wave-driven Dynamo in Accretion Disks (1992) (21)
Kelvin–Helmholtz versus Tearing Instability: What Drives Turbulence in Stochastic Reconnection? (2019) (20)
Effect of gravitational lenses on the microwave background, and 1146 + 111B,C (1986) (20)
MODEL OF RECONNECTION OF WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELD AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (2008) (20)
Digital Data Preservation for Scholarly Publications in Astronomy (2008) (20)
Magnetic Field Transport in Accretion Disks (2017) (19)
The Speed of Cooling Fronts and the Functional form of the Dimensionless Viscosity in Accretion Disks (1996) (19)
Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Environments (2014) (18)
The Dynamics of Flux Tubes in a High Beta Plasma (1994) (18)
A linear stability analysis for wind-driven bubbles (1988) (18)
Gravitational Instability in Collisionless Cosmological Pancakes (1996) (17)
The Evolution of the Central Black Hole in an Active Galactic Nucleus. I. Evolution with a Constant Mass Influx (1988) (16)
PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC HELICITY FLUX IN TURBULENT DYNAMOS (2013) (15)
Reconnection in weakly stochastic B -fields in 2D (2009) (15)
An axisymmetric nonstationary model of the central engine in an active galactic nucleus. I - Black hole electrodynamics (1989) (13)
An examination of the m = 1 instability in a low-mass protoplanetary disk (1992) (12)
The Structure of Cooling Fronts in Accretion Disks (1997) (12)
SIMULATIONS OF TURBULENT DYNAMOS DRIVEN BY THE MAGNETIC HELICITY FLUX (2011) (12)
Inflationary stochastic dynamics and the statistics of large-scale structure (1993) (11)
Stochastic Reconnection for Large Magnetic Prandtl Numbers (2018) (11)
Major Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection and Related Explosive Phenomena throughout the Universe. (2020) (11)
Reconnection current sheet structure in a turbulent medium (2012) (10)
Bayesian approaches to testing the nature of primordial density fluctuation (1995) (10)
Disk instability and the time-dependent X-ray emission from the intermediate polar GK persei (1992) (10)
Thermal Equilibrium Curves and Turbulent Mixing in Keplerian Accretion Disks (1999) (10)
Relativistic collisionless particles and the evolution of cosmological perturbations (1982) (10)
Spectral Transition and Torque Reversal in X-Ray Pulsar 4U 1626–67 (1999) (9)
FAST RECONNECTION OF MAGNETIC FIELDS IN TURBULENT FLUIDS (2000) (9)
Topology and stochasticity of turbulent magnetic fields. (2019) (9)
The hard X-ray emission spectra from accretion columns in intermediate polars (1994) (9)
Expansion-cooled Lyman-alpha clouds (1991) (8)
Can extra power explain periodicity on large scales (1993) (8)
Dynamics of the magnetic shearing instability and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in accretion disks. 1: Vertical magnetic field (1994) (7)
Magnetic stochasticity and diffusion. (2019) (6)
Reconnection in the ISM (1997) (6)
Three-dimensional Shape Statistics: Applications (1996) (6)
Nonlinear effects on cosmological perturbations. II. The production of isothermal perturbations by a primordial sound spectrum (1982) (5)
Global Aspects of Elliptical Instability in Tidally Distorted Accretion Disks (1995) (5)
Were the Lyman-alpha clouds formed from shocks (1987) (5)
A model for the distribution of the intergalactic medium (1990) (5)
Evolution of the intergalactic medium in a cold dark matter-dominated universe (1989) (4)
Local properties of magnetic reconnection in nonlinear resistive-and extended-magnetohydrodynamic toroidal simulations of the sawtooth crash (2016) (4)
Statistical analysis of stochastic magnetic fields. (2019) (4)
Making light of gravity (1989) (4)
Editorial: The Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (2017) (4)
THE ANISOTROPY OF MHD ALFVÉNIC TURBULENCE (2000) (4)
Reconnection in turbulent astrophysical fluids (2014) (3)
The evolution of the central black hole in an active galactic nucleus. II: Evolution with an exponentially decreasing mass influx (1990) (3)
Fast magnetic reconnection in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations (2010) (3)
What is Plagiarism (2012) (3)
EDITORIAL: THE AAS JOURNALS CORRIDOR FOR INSTRUMENTATION, SOFTWARE, LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS, AND DATA (2016) (3)
Production of new cosmological perturbations during the radiation-dominated era (1979) (3)
Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Shock‐Bounded Slabs a (1995) (3)
Power and complexity in stochastic reconnection (2020) (3)
ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSPORT IN LOW MASS ACCRETION DISKS (1993) (3)
Topological theory of physical fields (2019) (3)
The Growth Rate of Tidally Excited Waves in Accretion Disks: Erratum (1995) (3)
XV. A MODEL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM (1988) (3)
Publisher’s Note: Inertial-Range Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and in the Solar Wind [Phys. Rev. Lett.115, 025001 (2015)] (2015) (3)
Introduction to Magnetic Reconnection (2018) (3)
Entropy generation and limits on the anisotropy of the early Universe (1983) (3)
DIVISION XII / COMMISSION 5 / WORKING GROUP DESIGNATIONS (2007) (2)
Reconnection via the Tearing Instability (1998) (2)
Editorial: A Cooperative Agreement with the Journal of Open Source Software (2018) (2)
Cosmic string shocks and microwave spectral distortions (1988) (2)
Nonlinear effects on cosmological perturbations. I. The evolution of adiabatic perturbations (1982) (2)
Glimm’s Method for Relativistic Hydrodynamics (2008) (2)
MAGNETIC FIELDS IN STARS AND DISKS (1996) (2)
Radiative heat conduction and the magnetorotational instability (2002) (2)
Fast Reconnection in a Weakly Stochastic Field (1999) (2)
An upper limit to the electrodynamic power output from a thin accretion disk around a black hole (1994) (2)
Major Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection and Related Explosive Phenomena in Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas (2020) (2)
Nanoflare Theory Revisited (2020) (2)
An axisymmetric, nonstationary model of the central engine in an active galactic nucleus. II: Accretion disk electrodynamics (1989) (2)
Are hypernovae detectable (1991) (1)
Drag Instability (2004) (1)
The Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Radial Transport of Vertical Magnetic Flux (1996) (1)
The Internal Wave Driven Dynamo in Accretion Disks (1993) (1)
Galactic and accretion disk dynamos (1998) (1)
Turbulent magnetic reconnection in 2D and 3D (2010) (1)
The Nonlinear α - Ω Dynamo (2005) (1)
The gravitational instability of collisionless particles in a cosmological self-similar shell (1989) (1)
The growth rate of a dipole disturbance in an Einstein-De Sitter universe (1990) (1)
Editorial Transitions 2007 (2007) (1)
NUMERICAL STUDIES OF WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION (2008) (1)
Editorial: On the Use of Chatbots in Writing Scientific Manuscripts (2023) (1)
A Simple Model for the Galactic Dynamo (2012) (1)
Flux-freezing breakdown observed in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (2013) (1)
The Astrophysical Journal: Editorial (2008) (0)
The Breakdown of Flux Freezing in High-Conductivity Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (2013) (0)
Linear and Nonlinear Instabilities in Cooling Sheets (2007) (0)
Astrophysical Journal Letters: Editorial (2008) (0)
Particle acceleration in fast magnetic reconnection (2010) (0)
A Model for the Distribution of Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Intergalactic Medium in a Cold Dark Matter—dominated Universe (1989) (0)
Editorial: New Publishing Information for The Astrophysical Journal (2008) (0)
Hot Halos: Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies . A. C. Fabian, Ed. Kluwer, Norwell, MA, 1988. xiv, 391 pp., illus. $99. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C, vol. 229. From a workshop, Cambridge, U.K., June 1987. (1989) (0)
Singularities and Reconnection in MHD Turbulence (2010) (0)
Sound in the early universe (1985) (0)
Structure of MHD Turbulence (1999) (0)
EDITORIAL (2014) (0)
Nanoflare Theory and Stochastic Reconnection (2020) (0)
Why Disks Shine: the Transport of Angular Momentum in Hot, Thin Disks (1993) (0)
Topics in the Evolution of Cosmological Perturbations. (1980) (0)
Cooperative Research in High Energy Astrophysics between JHU and GSFC (2004) (0)
Fundamental physics and solar flares (2019) (0)
Model of Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field and its Testing (2008) (0)
Cosmic Explosions in Three Dimensions: A GRB simulation using 3-D relativistic hydrodynamics (2004) (0)
Linear Waves in a Non-Magnetic Thin Disk (1993) (0)
Angle-Resolved Autocorrelation Studies of the Magnetic Field in L1457 (1999) (0)
EDITORIAL (1989) (0)
A pr 1 99 8 Reconnection via the Tearing Instability (2021) (0)
Erratum: "The Growth Rate of Tidally Excited Waves in Accretion Disks" (ApJ, 461, 307 [1996]) (1997) (0)
Dynamos in Disks and Disk Coronae: The Role of the Magnetorotational Instability (2004) (0)
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion Disks (1995) (0)
The corona-dynamo connection in accretion disks (2004) (0)
Indeterminism in Classical Dynamics of Particle Motion (2013) (0)
Large Scale Dynamos in Stars (2015) (0)
Acceleration of Energetic Particles through Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field (2012) (0)
Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Presence of Weak Turbulence (2011) (0)
Professional and Ethical Standards for the AAS Journals (2006) (0)
2D and 3D turbulent magnetic reconnection (2009) (0)
On the Impact of Radiation Damping on the Magnetorotational Instability (2002) (0)
A Model for the Distribution of Magnetic Flux in High Beta MHD Turbulence (1995) (0)
Effects of turbulence on magnetic reconnection: 3D numerical simulations (2008) (0)
D ec 1 99 7 Reconnection in the ISM (1997) (0)
Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection for Large Magnetic Prandtl Numbers (2019) (0)
MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION IN ACCRETION DISKS (2002) (0)
Magnetic Shearing Instability and Magneto-Hydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion disks (1992) (0)
Disk instabilities and cooling fronts (1998) (0)
Cooling Fronts in Accretion Disks and Constraints on the Disk Viscosity (1996) (0)
Can turbulent reconnection be fast in 2D? (2010) (0)
Dynamos and angular momentum transport in accretion disks (1991) (0)
Nonlinear Interactions Between Internal Waves in Accretion Disks (1989) (0)
Simulations of Ideal MHD Turbulence in a Strongly Magnetized Medium (2001) (0)
Dynamics of flux tubes in accretion disks (1994) (0)
A MODEL FOR VARIABILITY OF AGN (1991) (0)
Editorial: Introducing the Planetary Science Journal (2020) (0)
Torque Reversal and Spectral Transition in 4U 1626-67 (1998) (0)
Interstellar Reconnection and Star Formation (1999) (0)
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion Disks (Invited paper) (1995) (0)
EDITORIAL (1999) (0)
Digital Data Preservation and Curation: A Collaboration Among Libraries, Publishers, and the Virtual Observatory - A pilot project aimed at preserving, curating, and enabling access to digital data and associated electronic journals content (2006) (0)
Hot Halos. (Book Reviews: Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies) (1989) (0)
Professional and Ethical Standards for the AAS Journals (2006) (0)
Ringberg Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics (2002) (0)
Dynamos in Accretion Disks (2001) (0)
Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei based on the Unified Theory (1993) (0)
Adaptive Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Particle-Mesh Simulations of Gravitational Instability in Cosmological Pancakes (1994) (0)
Conserving Magnetic Helicity in Astrophysical Dynamos (2001) (0)
PreprintReconnection in a Weakly Stochastic FieldA (2007) (0)
D ec 2 00 0 Magnetic Helicity Conservation and Astrophysical Dynamos (0)
Numerical Simulations of Stochastic Reconnection (2009) (0)
Dissipation of Energy, Cross Helicity, and Magnetic Helicity in Ideal MHD (2007) (0)
Nonstationary, Axisymmetric Black Hole Magnetosphere Theory (2003) (0)
Gravitational instabilities in a proto-planetary disk including the effects of magnetic fields (1994) (0)
Erratum: "Torque Reversal in Accretion-powered X-Ray Pulsars" (ApJ, 481, L51 [1997]) (1997) (0)
A need in astronomy. (1992) (0)
Flux Tubes in the Interstellar Medium (1996) (0)
Hot halos: cooling flows in clusters and galaxies. (1989) (0)
On the Origin of the Galactic Magnetic Field (1992) (0)
M ay 2 00 2 Problems and Progress in Astrophysical Dynamos (2008) (0)
Conserving Local Magnetic Helicity in Numerical Simulations (2021) (0)
Mathematical theory of physical vector fields (2019) (0)
A Need in Astronomy. (Book Reviews: An Introduction to Astrophysical Hydrodynamics.) (1992) (0)
Poloidal Flux Accretion and Jet Formation (2005) (0)
M ay 2 00 2 MHD Turbulence : Scaling Laws and Astrophysical Implications (2003) (0)
Editorial: Changes to RNAAS format (2020) (0)
Editorial: Living Articles (2018) (0)
A Self-Consistent Model for Angular Momentum Transport in Disks (1988) (0)
Angular Momentum Loss in Low Mass Accretion Disks (1993) (0)
Fundamental physics behind solar flares (2019) (0)
A Need in Astronomy: An Introduction to Astrophysical Hydrodynamics . Steven N. Shore. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1992. xvi, 452 pp., illus. $49.95. (1992) (0)
An axisymmetric, nonstationary electrodynamic model of the central engine in an active galactic nucleus (1990) (0)
Magnetic topology in fluids. (2019) (0)
Fast Turbulent Reconnection (2000) (0)
Does Dissipation in AGN Disks Couple to the Total Pressure (1993) (0)

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