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Bibliography from ADS File: Doyle.Bib June 27, 2021 1 Bibliography from ADS file: doyle.bib Nelson, C. J., Doyle, J. G., & Erdélyi, R., “On the relationship between magnetic August 16, 2021 cancellation and UV burst formation”, 2016MNRAS.463.2190N ADS Hill, A., Byrnes, P., Fitzsimmons, J., et al., “A prototype of the NFIRAOS to instrument thermo-mechanical interface”, 2016SPIE.9912E..02H ADS Murphy, T., Kaplan, D. L., Stewart, A. J., et al., “The ASKAP Variables and Reid, A., Mathioudakis, M., Doyle, J. G., et al., “Magnetic Flux Cancellation in Slow Transients (VAST) Pilot Survey”, 2021arXiv210806039M ADS Ellerman Bombs”, 2016ApJ...823..110R ADS Vilangot Nhalil, N., Nelson, C. J., Mathioudakis, M., Doyle, J. G., & Ramsay, Shetye, J., Doyle, J. G., Scullion, E., et al., “High-cadence observations of G., “Power-law energy distributions of small-scale impulsive events on the spicular-type events on the Sun”, 2016A&A...589A...3S ADS active Sun: results from IRIS”, 2020MNRAS.499.1385V ADS Wedemeyer, S., Bastian, T., Brajša, R., et al., “Solar Science with the At- Ramsay, G., Doyle, J. G., & Doyle, L., “TESS observations of southern ultrafast acama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array-A New View of Our Sun”, rotating low-mass stars”, 2020MNRAS.497.2320R ADS 2016SSRv..200....1W ADS Doyle, L., Ramsay, G., & Doyle, J. G., “Superflares and variability in solar- Shetye, J., Doyle, J. G., Scullion, E., Nelson, C. J., & Kuridze, D., “High Ca- type stars with TESS in the Southern hemisphere”, 2020MNRAS.494.3596D dence Observations and Analysis of Spicular-type Events Using CRISP On- ADS board SST”, 2016ASPC..504..115S ADS Srivastava, A. K., Rao, Y. K., Konkol, P., et al., “Velocity Response of the Ob- Park, S. H., Tsiropoula, G., Kontogiannis, I., et al., “First simultaneous served Explosive Events in the Lower Solar Atmosphere. I. Formation of the SST/CRISP and IRIS observations of a small-scale quiet Sun vortex”, Flowing Cool-loop System”, 2020ApJ...894..155S ADS 2016A&A...586A..25P ADS Doyle, L., Ramsay, G., Doyle, J. G., et al., “Exploring Flaring Behaviour on Wedemeyer, S., Bastian, T., Brajša, R., et al., “SSALMON - The So- Low Mass Stars, Solar-type Stars and the Sun”, 2020IAUS..354..384D lar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network”, ADS 2015AdSpR..56.2679W ADS Doyle, L., Wyper, P. F., Scullion, E., et al., “Observations and 3D Magneto- Vanninathan, K., Madjarska, M. S., Galsgaard, K., Huang, Z., & Doyle, hydrodynamic Modeling of a Confined Helical Jet Launched by a Filament J. G., “Active region upflows. I. Multi-instrument observations”, Eruption”, 2019ApJ...887..246D ADS 2015A&A...584A..38V ADS Srivastava, A. K., Mishra, S. K., Jelínek, P., et al., “On the Observations of Rapid Ramsay, G., Hakala, P., & Doyle, J. G., “Searching for I-band variability in Forced Reconnection in the Solar Corona”, 2019ApJ...887..137S ADS stars in the M/L spectral transition region”, 2015MNRAS.453.1484R ADS Doyle, L., Ramsay, G., Doyle, J. G., & Wu, K., “Probing the origin of stellar Hallinan, G., Littlefair, S. P., Cotter, G., et al., “Magnetospherically driven flares on M dwarfs using TESS data sectors 1-3”, 2019MNRAS.489..437D optical and radio aurorae at the end of the stellar main sequence”, ADS 2015Natur.523..568H ADS Houdebine, E. R., Mullan, D. J., Doyle, J. G., et al., “VizieR Online Data Ramsay, G. & Doyle, J. G., “The view from K2: questioning the traditional view Catalog: Stellar parameters of M and K dwarfs (Houdebine+, 2019)”, of flaring on early dM stars”, 2015MNRAS.449.3015R ADS 2019yCat..51580056H ADS Reid, A., Mathioudakis, M., Scullion, E., et al., “Ellerman Bombs with Jets: Shetye, J., Verwichte, E., Stangalini, M., et al., “Multiwavelength High- Cause and Effect”, 2015ApJ...805...64R ADS resolution Observations of Chromospheric Swirls in the Quiet Sun”, Doyle, J., “New Upper Limit on the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment”, 2019ApJ...881...83S ADS 2015APS..APR.B8003D ADS Houdebine, É. R., Mullan, D. J., Doyle, J. G., et al., “The Mass-Activity Rela- Madjarska, M. S., Doyle, J. G., & Shetye, J., “A coronal wave and an asymmet- tionships in M and K Dwarfs. I. Stellar Parameters of Our Sample of M and ric eruptive filament in SUMER, CDS, EIT, and TRACE co-observations”, 2015A&A...575A..39M K Dwarfs”, 2019AJ....158...56H ADS ADS Butler, C. J., Erkan, N., Budding, E., et al., “A multiwavelength study of the M Srivastava, A. K., Murawski, K., Ku´zma,B., et al., “Confined pseudo-shocks dwarf binary YY Geminorum”, 2015MNRAS.446.4205B ADS as an energy source for the active solar corona”, 2018NatAs...2..951S Metodieva, Y., Antonova, A., Golev, V., et al., “Low-resolution optical spectra ADS of ultracool dwarfs with OSIRIS/GTC”, 2015MNRAS.446.3878M ADS Doyle, L., Ramsay, G., Doyle, J. G., Wu, K., & Scullion, E., “Investigating the Drake, S. A., Behar, E., Doyle, J. G., et al., “Stellar flares observed by LOFT: rotational phase of stellar flares on M dwarfs using K2 short cadence data”, implications for the physics of coronae and for the “space weather” environ- 2018MNRAS.480.2153D ADS ment of extrasolar planets”, 2015arXiv150102771D ADS , “A Tziotziou, K., Tsiropoula, G., Kontogiannis, I., Scullion, E., & Doyle, J. G. Nelson, C. J., Scullion, E. M., Doyle, J. G., Freij, N., & Erdélyi, persistent quiet-Sun small-scale tornado. I. Characteristics and dynamics ”, R., “Small-scale Structuring of Ellerman Bombs at the Solar Limb”, 2018A&A...618A..51T ADS 2015ApJ...798...19N ADS Shetye, J., Shelyag, S., Reid, A. L., et al., “Signatures of quiet Sun reconnection Vanninathan, K., Madjarska, M. S., Scullion, E., & Doyle, J. G., “Erratum: events in Ca II, Hα, and Fe I”, 2018MNRAS.479.3274S ADS Erratum to: Off-limb (Spicule) DEM Distribution from SoHO/SUMER Obser- Doyle, L., Ramsay, G., & Doyle, J. G., “Searching for the Origin of Flares in M vations”, 2014SoPh..289.4749V ADS dwarfs”, 2018csss.confE..81D ADS Huang, Z., Madjarska, M. S., Xia, L., et al., “Explosive Events on a Subarcsec- Subramanian, S., Kashyap, V. L., Tripathi, D., Madjarska, M. S., & Doyle, J. G., ond Scale in IRIS Observations: A Case Study”, 2014ApJ...797...88H “Energetics of Hi-C EUV brightenings”, 2018A&A...615A..47S ADS ADS Srivastava, A. K., Pandey, J. C., Karmakar, S., et al., “First Evidence of the Ramsay, G. & Doyle, J. G., “The M4.5V flare star AF Psc as seen in K2 engi- Frequency Filtering of Magnetoacoustic Waves in the Flaring Star EK Dra”, neering data”, 2014MNRAS.442.2926R ADS 2018arXiv180408858S ADS Huang, Z., Madjarska, M. S., Koleva, K., et al., “Hα spectroscopy and Doyle, J. G., Shetye, J., Antonova, A. E., et al., “Stellar flare oscilla- multiwavelength imaging of a solar flare caused by filament eruption”, tions: evidence for oscillatory reconnection and evolution of MHD modes”, 2014A&A...566A.148H ADS 2018MNRAS.475.2842D ADS Keenan, F. P., Doyle, J. G., Madjarska, M. S., et al., “Intensity Enhance- Keys, P. H., Morton, R. J., Jess, D. B., et al., “Photospheric Observations of Sur- ment of O VI Ultraviolet Emission Lines in Solar Spectra due to Opacity”, face and Body Modes in Solar Magnetic Pores”, 2018ApJ...857...28K 2014ApJ...784L..39K ADS ADS Nelson, C. J., Shelyag, S., Mathioudakis, M., et al., “Ellerman Bombs- Rao, Y. K., Srivastava, A. K., Doyle, J. G., & Dwivedi, B. N., “Ori- Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in the Lower Solar Atmosphere”, gin of impulsive plasma outflows due to magnetoacoustic shocks”, 2013ApJ...779..125N ADS 2017MNRAS.470.2449R ADS Nelson, C. J. & Doyle, J. G., “Excitation of an outflow from the Reid, A., Henriques, V., Mathioudakis, M., Doyle, J. G., & Ray, T., “Chro- lower solar atmosphere and a co-temporal EUV transient brightening”, mospheric Inversions of a Micro-flaring Region”, 2017ApJ...845..100R 2013A&A...560A..31N ADS ADS Ramsay, G., Doyle, J. G., Hakala, P., et al., “Short-duration high-amplitude Srivastava, A. K., Shetye, J., Murawski, K., et al., “High-frequency flares detected on the M dwarf star KIC 5474065”, 2013MNRAS.434.2451R torsional Alfvén waves as an energy source for coronal heating”, ADS 2017NatSR...743147S ADS Doyle, J. G., Giunta, A., Madjarska, M. S., et al., “Diagnosing transient ioniza- Metodieva, Y. T., Kuznetsov, A. A., Antonova, A. E., et al., “Modelling tion in dynamic events”, 2013A&A...557L...9D ADS the environment around five ultracool dwarfs via the radio domain”, Baron, J., Demille, D., Doyle, J., et al., “Measurement of the Electron’s Electric 2017MNRAS.465.1995M ADS Dipole Moment in Thorium Monoxide”, 2013mss..confETF06B ADS Reid, A., Mathioudakis, M., Kowalski, A., Doyle, J. G., & Allred, Antonova, A., Hallinan, G., Doyle, J. G., et al., “VizieR Online J. C., “Solar Ellerman Bombs in 1D Radiative Hydrodynamics”, Data Catalog: Radio survey of ultracool dwarfs (Antonova+, 2013)”, 2017ApJ...835L..37R ADS 2013yCat..35490131A ADS Huang, Z., Madjarska, M. S., Scullion, E. M., et al., “Explosive events in active Nelson, C. J., Doyle, J. G., Erdélyi, R., et al., “Statistical Analysis of Small region observed by IRIS and SST/CRISP”, 2017MNRAS.464.1753H ADS Ellerman Bomb Events”, 2013SoPh..283..307N ADS 1 Gupta, G. R., Subramanian, S., Banerjee, D., Madjarska, M. S., & Doyle, J. G., Ding, J. Y., Madjarska, M. S., Doyle, J. G., & Lu, Q. M., “Chromospheric “Nature of Quiet Sun Oscillations Using Data from the Hinode, TRACE, and magnetic reconnection caused by photospheric flux emergence: implications SOHO Spacecraft”, 2013SoPh..282...67G ADS for jet-like events formation”, 2010A&A...510A.111D ADS Nelson, C. J., Doyle, J. G., Erdélyi, R., Madjarska, M., & Mumford, Doyle, J. G., Chapman, S., Bryans, P., et al., “Deriving the coronal hole electron S. J., “Ellerman bombs: small-scale brightenings in the photosphere”, temperature: electron density dependent ionization / recombination consider- 2013MmSAI..84..436N ADS ations”, 2010RAA....10...91D ADS Hallinan, G., Sirothia, S.
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