Steven Balbus

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Steven Balbus is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Berkeley, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Virginia

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#793

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#1282

Historical Rank

#368

USA Rank

Astrophysics

#57

World Rank

#61

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#26

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PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Steven Andrew Balbus is an American-born astrophysicist who is the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford. In 2013, he shared the Shaw Prize for Astronomy with John F. Hawley.

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A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. I - Linear analysis. II - Nonlinear evolution (1990) (3204)
Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks (1997) (1793)
Local Three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion Disks (1995) (916)
A Powerful Local Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized Disks. II. Nonlinear Evolution (1991) (572)
Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of vertically stratified accretion disks (1996) (445)
Enhanced Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks (2003) (365)
Local three-dimensional simulations of an accretion disk hydromagnetic dynamo (1996) (331)
Linear Analysis of the Hall Effect in Protostellar Disks (2000) (279)
A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. IV: Nonaxisymmetric perturbations (1992) (269)
LOCAL SHEAR INSTABILITIES IN WEAKLY IONIZED, WEAKLY MAGNETIZED DISKS (1994) (257)
On the Dynamical Foundations of α Disks (1999) (249)
The Dynamical Structure of Nonradiative Black Hole Accretion Flows (2002) (230)
A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. III - Long-term evolution in a shearing sheet. IV - Nonaxisymmetric perturbations (1992) (181)
Differential Rotation and Turbulence in Extended H I Disks (1998) (165)
Nonlinear Stability, Hydrodynamical Turbulence, and Transport in Disks (1996) (162)
Stability, Instability, and “Backward” Transport in Stratified Fluids (1999) (156)
A Magnetohydrodynamic Nonradiative Accretion Flow in Three Dimensions (2001) (133)
Local Hydrodynamic Stability of Accretion Disks (1998) (130)
Radiative magnetized thermal conduction fronts (1990) (130)
Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks via Convection (1996) (123)
Theory of local thermal instability in spherical systems (1989) (112)
Convective and Rotational Stability of a Dilute Plasma (2001) (108)
Ambipolar diffusion in the magnetorotational instability (2003) (86)
On the Magnetic Prandtl Number Behavior of Accretion Disks (2007) (86)
On linear dust–gas streaming instabilities in protoplanetary discs (2011) (83)
Local Dynamic Thermal Instability (1986) (76)
General local stability criteria for stratified, weakly magnetized rotating systems (1995) (73)
On the Nature of Angular Momentum Transport in Nonradiative Accretion Flows (2002) (70)
Is the Oort A-Value a Universal Growth Rate Limit for Accretion Disk Shear Instabilities? (1992) (69)
Viscous Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized, Dilute Plasmas (2004) (66)
Local Axisymmetric Diffusive Stability of Weakly Magnetized, Differentially Rotating, Stratified Fluids (2004) (63)
MRI channel flows and their parasites (2009) (63)
Local Interstellar Gasdynamical Stability and Substructure in Spiral Arms (1988) (61)
SIMULATIONS OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS INSTABILITIES IN INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM INCLUDING ANISOTROPIC THERMAL CONDUCTION (2009) (59)
Gap Formation by Planets in Turbulent Protostellar Disks (2003) (58)
The stability of differentially rotating, weakly magnetized stellar radiative zones (1994) (57)
The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. III - Suprathermal evaporation (1982) (53)
How mergers magnetise massive stars (2019) (48)
A flux-limited treatment for the conductive evaporation of spherical interstellar gas clouds (1993) (46)
Differential rotation and convection in the Sun (2009) (46)
INEFFICIENT DRIVING OF BULK TURBULENCE BY ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI IN A HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM (2015) (45)
On the gravitational stability of the interstellar medium in spiral arms (1985) (44)
Evolution of Self-Gravitating Magnetized Disks. II. Interaction between Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and Gravitational Instabilities (2004) (44)
Global model of differential rotation in the Sun (2011) (43)
Star-gas density waves in spiral galaxies (1986) (41)
Chaos in turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (2003) (40)
On magnetothermal instability in cluster cooling flows (1991) (38)
Random scattering approach to gravitational microlensing (1986) (36)
Angular momentum transport in astrophysics and in the lab (2013) (36)
Fluctuations, dissipation and turbulence in accretion discs (1994) (35)
Resonant excitation of internal gravity waves in cluster cooling flows (1990) (33)
An Exact, Three-dimensional, Time-dependent Wave Solution in Local Keplerian Flow (2006) (33)
Quasi-global, linear analysis of a magnetized disc (1994) (33)
Transport Processes in Protostellar Disks (2000) (33)
Solar Nebula Magnetohydrodynamics (1999) (32)
Dynamics of the Magnetoviscous Instability (2005) (32)
On thermal instability and hydrostatic equilibrium in cooling flows (1988) (32)
Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars (2019) (31)
A simple model for solar isorotational contours (2008) (30)
Magnetized Thermal Conduction Fronts (1986) (29)
Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric magnetostrophic MRI modes (2013) (29)
Fluid dynamics: A turbulent matter (2011) (28)
Magnetohydrodynamics of Protostellar Disks (2009) (28)
Instability and Turbulence in Accretion Disks (1999) (24)
The spectral evolution of disc dominated tidal disruption events (2019) (22)
Gasdynamical Stability of Shear Flow in Spiral Arms of Disk Galaxies (1996) (22)
The stability of stratified, rotating systems and the generation of vorticity in the Sun (2012) (22)
RADIATIVE AND DYNAMIC STABILITY OF A DILUTE PLASMA (2010) (22)
The dynamics of inner dead-zone boundaries in protoplanetary discs (2012) (21)
Regulation of Thermal Conductivity in Hot Galaxy Clusters by MHD Turbulence (2008) (20)
Exact shearing box solutions of magnetohydrodynamic flows with resistivity, viscosity and cooling (2007) (20)
Nonlinear Evolution of Internal Gravity Waves in Cluster Cooling Flows (1995) (20)
Magnetostrophic MRI in the Earth's outer core (2008) (20)
Dynamical, biological and anthropic consequences of equal lunar and solar angular radii (2014) (18)
Multifrequency observations of BL Lacertae in 1988 (1991) (18)
Evolution of Self-Gravitating Magnetized Disks. I. Axisymmetric Simulations (2003) (18)
A comparison of local simulations and reduced models of MRI-induced turbulence (2009) (17)
An accretion disc instability induced by a temperature sensitive α parameter (2014) (16)
Three-Dimensional Simulations of (2015) (15)
Classical thermal evaporation of clouds - An electrostatic analogy. [for nebulae dynamics] (1985) (15)
The evolution of Kerr discs and late-time tidal disruption event light curves (2018) (15)
Long-term evolution of a magnetic massive merger product (2020) (15)
Numerical Simulations of MHD Turbulence in Accretion Disks (2002) (14)
The general relativistic thin disc evolution equation (2017) (13)
Inertial waves near corotation in three-dimensional hydrodynamical discs (2009) (12)
On the behaviour of the magnetorotational instability when the Rayleigh criterion is violated (2012) (11)
MHD Turbulence in an Accretion Disk (1995) (11)
When is high Reynolds number shear flow not turbulent? (2017) (11)
The Goldreich–Schubert–Fricke instability in stellar radiative zones (2016) (10)
A limitation of the generation of magnetic fields. [astrophysics] (1993) (10)
ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating 109 M⊙ black hole (2020) (10)
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress – I. Stalled accretion (2019) (10)
Magnetorotational instability (2009) (9)
Turbulent Energy Transport in Nonradiative Accretion Flows (2003) (9)
Surprises in astrophysical gasdynamics (2016) (9)
Transport in accretion disks (1999) (9)
The propagation and stability of time-dependent galactodetonation waves (1984) (8)
The effects of Prandtl number on black hole accretion flows (2008) (8)
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress – II. Late time behaviour (2019) (8)
The radiative zone of the Sun and the tachocline: stability of baroclinic patterns of differential rotation (2016) (8)
Resistive double‐diffusive instability in the dead zones of protostellar discs (2010) (8)
Tidal friction in the binary pulsar system PSR 1913+16. (1976) (8)
Demonstration of a magnetic Prandtl number disc instability from first principles (2017) (7)
[Plasma 2020 Decadal] The Material Properties of Weakly Collisional, High-Beta Plasmas (2019) (6)
Differential rotation in fully convective stars (2010) (6)
The tachocline and differential rotation in the Sun (2010) (6)
Simplified derivation of the gravitational wave stress tensor from the linearized Einstein field equations (2016) (6)
Characteristic-based models for the evolution of cooling flows (1992) (6)
A key environmental driver of osteichthyan evolution and the fish-tetrapod transition? (2020) (5)
Numerical Simulations of the MRI and Real Disks (2004) (5)
A self-consistent reduced model for dusty magnetorotationally unstable discs (2012) (5)
Fluid dynamics: Spinning discs in the lab (2006) (4)
Elasticity of tangled magnetic fields (2020) (4)
Differential rotation and radiative equilibrium in the Sun: is the tachocline spreading? (2015) (4)
Turbulent transport in accretion disks (2008) (3)
On the high-frequency spectrum of a classical accretion disc (2014) (3)
Energy partition between Alfvénic and compressive fluctuations in magnetorotational turbulence with near-azimuthal mean magnetic field (2021) (3)
Anomalous Viscosity in Accretion Disks a (1992) (3)
An upper observable black hole mass scale for tidal destruction events with thermal X-ray spectra (2021) (2)
Hard X-ray emission from a Compton scattering corona in large black hole mass tidal disruption events (2021) (2)
Life Cycles of Magnetic Fields in Stellar Evolution (2009) (2)
Gravitational wave stress tensor from the linearised field equations (2016) (2)
Inspirals from the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Kerr Black Holes: Exact Solutions and Universal Radial Flow. (2022) (2)
Large scale interstellar gasdynamics in disk galaxies (1990) (2)
Evolution of massive and magnetized protoplanetary disks (2004) (1)
On Nonshearing Magnetic Configurations in Differentially Rotating Disks (1998) (1)
John Hawley (1958–2021) (2022) (1)
The origin of turbulent viscosity in accretion disks. (1996) (1)
Numerical Simulations of Self-Gravitating Magnetized Disks (2003) (1)
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Accretion Disks (1997) (1)
Nonlinear Scale Invariance in Local Disk Flows (2004) (1)
A complete characterisation of the orbital shapes of the non-circular Kerr geodesic solutions with circular orbit constants of motion (2023) (1)
Numerical Simulations of Internal Gravity Waves in Cluster Cooling Flows (1990) (0)
A Powerful Viscous Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized, Diulte Plasmas (2004) (0)
Cooling Flow Evolution Using the Theory of Characteristics (1990) (0)
Local interstellar gasdynamical stability in spiral arm flow (1986) (0)
Helium Emission from Classical T Tauri stars : Dual Origin in Magnetospheric Infall and Hot Wind (2005) (0)
Correction to ‘A key environmental driver of osteichthyan evolution and the fish–tetrapod transition?’ (2020) (0)
Astrophysics in the lab (2004) (0)
Quasi-Global Analysis of a Magnetized Accretion Disk (1993) (0)
The Nature of Compact Objects in Active Galactic Nuclei: Accretion Disk Instabilities (1994) (0)
On the Minimum Energy Configuration of a Rotating Barotropic Fluid: A Response to Narayan & Pringle astro-ph/0208161 (2002) (0)
Substructure in spiral arms (1988) (0)
Evolution of self-gravitating magnetized tori in axisymmetric simulations (2003) (0)
A Poynting theorem formulation for the gravitational wave stress pseudo tensor (2021) (0)
Tides: a driver for the early evolution of terrestrial vertebrates? (2019) (0)
Numerical Simulations of Accretion Disks (1994) (0)
When is Uniform Rotation an Energy Minimum (2002) (0)
Angular Momentum Transport in Disks 1 Enhanced Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks (2003) (0)
0 Se p 20 03 Numerical simulations of self-gravitating magnetized disks (2003) (0)
The high energy probability distribution of accretion disc luminosity fluctuations (2022) (0)
An Interfilament Medium in the Crab Nebula (1981) (0)
John F. Hawley (1958–2021) (2022) (0)
Resonant excitation of internal waves in intracluster gas (1989) (0)
A pr 2 00 5 Version : April 8 , 2008 Dynamics of the Magnetoviscous Instability (2005) (0)
The Effects of Thermal Conduction in High Temperature Astrophysical Gasdynamics. (1981) (0)
Fermi Acceleration in Cooling Flows (1987) (0)
When catastrophe strikes a cell In 2-3% of cancers, a single genetic event may lead to hundreds of genomic rearrangements confined to just one or a few chromosomes. This finding challenges the conventional view of how mutations accumulate in oncogenesis. (2011) (0)
Accretion within the innermost stable circular orbit: analytical thermodynamic solutions in the adiabatic limit (2023) (0)
Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (2018) (0)
2 1 2 Ju l 2 00 5 Version : February 2 , 2008 Dynamics of the Magnetoviscous Instability (2005) (0)
Alpha Disks, the Magnetorotational Instability...and Beyond (2011) (0)
Numerical simulations of accretion disks: sources of anomalous viscosity. (1996) (0)
ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating 10 9 M (cid:2) black hole (2020) (0)
Radiative thermal conduction fronts (1990) (0)
The Evaporation of Gas in Galaxies in Rich Clusters by a Hot Intracluster Medium (1979) (0)
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in an Accretion Disk (1994) (0)
Thermal Instability in a Hot Plasma (1990) (0)

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