Publications

Journal papers

         1.  R. Evans, M. Opher, W. B. Manchester, , M. Velli, T. I. Gombosi, “Alfven Profile in the Lower Corona: 
          Implications for Shock Formation”, Astrophysical Journal in press.

         2.     Y. C. Liu, M. Opher, O. Cohen, P. Liewer, and T. I. Gombosi, “A simulation of a CME propagation and shock  
              evolution in the lower solar corona”, Astrophysical Journal, 680, 757L, 2008.

        3.     M. Opher, J. C. Richardson, G. Toth, T. I. Gombosi, “When Magnetized Winds Collide: The Role of Interstellar  
              Magnetic Field in the Interaction of the Solar System and the Interstellar Medium“, Space Science Reviews in press.

         4.     Manchester, W.B., A. Vourilidas, G. Toth, N. Lugaz, M. Opher, T. I. Gombosi, I. Sokolov, D. DeZeeuw, I.   
              Roussev, “Three-dimensional MHD simulation of the 2003 October 28 Coronal Mass Ejection: Comparison with 
              Coronagraph Observations”, Astrophysical Journal in press.

• 5.     C. Prested, N. Schwadron, J. Passuite, B. Randol, B. Stuart, G. Crew, J. Heerikhuisen, N. Pogorelov, G. Zank, M. Opher, F. Allegrini, D. J. Comas, M. Reno, E. Roelof, S. Fuselier, H. Funsten, E. Moebius, and L. Saul. “Implications of universal kappa distributions for IBEX ENA flux maps”, JGR, Volume 113, Issue A6, A06102, 2008.

  6.     M. Opher, E. Stone, T. I. Gombosi, “The Orientation of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field”, Science 316, page 875, 2007.

  7.     M. Opher, E. Stone, P. C. Liewer, “Effects of a Local Interstellar Magnetic Field on Voyager 1 and 2 Observations”, Astrophysical Journal, 640, L71, 2006.

  8.     M. Opher, E. Stone, P. C. Liewer, T. I. Gombosi, “Global Asymmetry of the Heliosphere” IGPP, AIP Conference Proceedings, page 45, 2006.

  9.     L. Bettarini, M. Velli, S. Landi, M. Opher, “Tearing and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the heliospheric plasma”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 452, 321, 2006.

  10.  M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, M. Velli, L. Bettarini, T. I. Gombosi, W. B. Manchester, D. L. DeZeeuw, G. Toth, and I. Sokolov, “Magnetic Effects at the Edge of the Solar System: MHD Instabilities, the de Laval nozzle Effect and an Extended Jet”, Astrophysical Journal, 611, 575, 2004.

  11.  M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, M. Velli, L. Bettarini, T. I. Gombosi, W.B. Manchester, D. L.DeZeeuw, I. Sokolov, G. Toth, “Magnetic Effects Change Our View of the Heliosheath”, IGPP, AIP Conference Proceedings, 719, 105, 2004.

  12.  M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, T. I. Gombosi, W. B. Manchester, D. L. DeZeeuw, I.Sokolov, and G. Toth, “Probing the Edge of the Solar System: Formation of an Unstable Jet-Sheet”, Astrophysical Journal, 591L, 61, 2003.

        [chosen as highlight for Science Editor's Choice, "To an Instability and Beyond", Science, 300, 2005 (2003)]

  13.  W. Manchester, M. Opher T. I. Gombosi, I. Roussev, D. L. DeZeeuw, I. V. Sokolov, K.G. Powell, G. Toth,“Three-dimensional MHD simulation of a flux rope driven CME”, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A01102, 2004.

  14.  M. Opher, G. J. Morales, and J. N. Leauboff, “Krook Collisional Models of the Kinetic Susceptibility”, Phys.Rev.E 66, 016407, 2002.

  15.  M. Opher, L. O. Silva, D. E. Dauger. V. K. Decyk and J. M. Dawson, “Nuclear Reaction Rates and Energy in Stellar Plasmas: The effect of Highly Damped Modes”, Physics of Plasmas 8, 2454, 2001.

  16.  M. Opher and R. Opher, “Dynamic Screening in Thermonuclear Reactions”, Astrophys. J. 535, 473, 2000.

  17.  M. Opher and R. Opher, “Energy of a Plasma in the Classical Limit, Phys.Rev.Lett. 82, 4835,1999.

  18.  O. D. Miranda, M. Opher and R. Opher, “Generation of Seed Magnetic Fields by Primordial Supernovae”, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 301, 547, 1998.

  19.  M. Opher and R. Opher, “Was The Electromagnetic Spectrum a Blackbody Spectrum in The Early Universe?”, Phys.Rev.Lett. 79, 2628,1997.

  20.  M. Opher and R. Opher, “The Magnetic Field Spectrum in a Plasma in Thermal Equilibrium in the Epoch of Primordial Nucleosynthesis”, Phys.Rev.D 56, 3296,1997.

  21.  M. Revzen, R. Opher, M. Opher and A. Mann, “Kirchhoff's theorem and the Casimir Effect”, Europhys. Lett. 38, 245,1997.

  22.  M. Revzen, R. Opher, M. Opher and A. Mann, “Casimir's Entropy”, J. Phys. A 30, 7783, 1997.