BRIAN R. DENNIS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

B. R. Dennis, P. W. Dennis, J. Dinsick, and E. J. Schmahl, "How HESSI Images" in Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting. Proceedings of a conference to be held January 2002, at King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. Edited by P. C. H. Martens a nd D. Cauffman. To be published by Elsevier Science in the COSPAR Colloquia Series. 2002.

R. P. Lin and B. R. Dennis, “The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) Mission” in American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, abstract #SP42A-01, 2001

S. E. Boggs, R. P. Lin, B. R. Dennis, P. Von Ballmoos, K. Thomsen, G. Hurford, K. C. Hurley, N. W. Madden, D. M. Smith, P. Jean, and J. Knoedelseder, "Cyclone, The Cyclotron/Nuclear Explorer" AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division, 32, 2000.

R. Henneck, J. Bialkowski, F. Burri, M. Fivian, W. Hajdas, A. Mchedlishvili, P. Ming, K. Thomsen, J. Welte, A. Zehnder, B. R. Dennis, G. J. Hurford, D. W. Curtis, and D. Pankow, "Solar Aspect System (SAS) for the High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI)" in Proc. SPIE Vol. 3765, p. 771-776, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Oswald H. Siegmund; Kathryn A. Flanagan; Eds., 771, 1999.

Lin, R. P., Hurford, G. J., Madden, N. W., Dennis, B. R., et al. “High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) Small Explorer mission for the next (2000) solar maximu” in Proc. SPIE Vol. 3442, p. 2-12, Missions to the Sun II, Clarence M. Korendyke; Ed., 2, 1998.

M. J. Aschwanden, B. R. Dennis, and A. O. Benz, 1998, “Logistic Avalanche Processes, Elementary Time Structures, and Frequency Distributions in Solar Flares” Astrophysical Journal, 497, 972, 1998.

J. A. Miller, P. J. Cargill, A. G. Emslie, G. D. Holman, B. R. Dennis, T. N. LaRosa, R. M. Winglee, S. G. Benka, and S. Tsuneta, “Critical Issues for Understanding Particle Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares” JGR, 102, pp 14,631-14,659, 1997.

B. R. Dennis, R. P. Lin, R. C. Canfield, C. J. Crannell, A. G. Emslie, G. D. Holman, H. S. Hudson, G. J. Hurford, J. C. Ling, N. W. Madden, and R. Ramaty, “The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager – HESSI” Proc. SPIE Technical Conference Missions to the Sun, Denver, Colorado. 2804, pp 228-240, 1996.

B. R. Dennis, “X-Ray Aspects of the High Energy Solar Physics Workshop: Rapporteur Paper I” High Energy Solar Physic, (R. Ramaty, N. Mandzhavidze, and X.-M. Hua, eds.), AIP Press, Conf. Proc. 374, pp 519-532, 1996.

T. A. Kucera, B. R. Dennis, R. A. Schwartz, and D. Shaw, “Evidence for a Cutoff in the Frequency Distribution of Solar Flares from Small Active Regions” Ap. J., 475, pp 338-347, 1996.

T. A. Kucera, P. J. Love, B. R. Dennis, G. D. Holman, R. A. Schwartz, and D. M. Zarro, “A Study of the Thermal/Nonthermal Electric Field Model Using Spectral and Spatial X-Ray Data from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Yohkoh” Ap. J., 466, pp 1067-1077, 1996.

H. S. Hudson, K. T. Strong, B. R. Dennis, D. M. Zarro, M. Inda, T. Kosugi, and T. Sakao, “Impulsive Behavior in Solar Soft X-Radiation” Ap. J. Letters, 422, pp. L25‑L27, 1994.

N. B. Crosby, M. J. Aschwanden, and B. R. Dennis, “Frequency Distributions and Correlations of Solar X-Ray Flare Parameters” Solar Physics, 143, 275-299, 1993.

B. R. Dennis and D. M. Zarro, “The Neupert Effect: What Can It Tell Us about the Impulsive and Gradual Phases of Solar Flares?” Solar Physics, 146, pp. 177-190, 1993.