Gordon Hurford

Publications

1. Gamma-ray imaging with a rotating modulator, P. Durouchoux, H. Hudson, G. Hurford, K. C. Hurley, J. Matteson and E. Orsal, Astron. & Astrophys., 120, 150, 1983.

2. Magnetic changes observed in a solar flare, R. L. Moore, G. J. Hurford, H. P. Jones and S. R. Kane, Astrophys. J., 276, 379, 1984.

3. MAX '91: An advanced payload for the exploration of high-energy processes on the active sun, B. Dennis, E. Chupp, C. Crannell, G. Doschek, H. Hudson, G. Hurford, S. Kane, R. Lin, T. Prince, R. Ramaty, G. Share and E. Tandberg- Hanssen, Report of the MAX '91 Science Study Committee, NASA, Washington, D.C., 55 pp., 1986.

4. Gamma-ray and hard X-ray imaging of solar flares, T.A. Prince, G.J. Hurford, H.S. Hudson and C.J. Crannell, Solar Phys., 118, 269, 1988.

5. MAX '91: Flare research at the next solar maximum, B. Dennis, R. Canfield, M. Bruner, G. Emslie, E. Hildner, H. Hudson, G. Hurford, R. Lin, R. Novick and T. Tarbell, NASA, Washington, D.C., 52 pp. report, 1988.

6. Hard X-ray and gamma-ray imaging spectroscopy for the next solar maximum, H. S. Hudson, C. J. Crannell, J. M. Davis, B. R. Dennis, G. J. Hurford, R. P. Lin and D. S. Spicer, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy, SPIE Proc. 1344, Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Bellingham, WA, 492, 1990.

7. The High Energy Solar Physics mission (HESP): Scientific objectives and technical description, R. Lin, C. Crannell, B. Dennis, J. Davis, G. Emslie, G. Haerendel, H. Hudson, G. Hurford, J. Ling, N. Vilmer, R. Ramaty, D. Spicer and F. van Beek, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 66 pp. Report, 1991.

8. The high energy solar spectroscopic imager - HESSI, B.R. Dennis, R.P. Lin, R.C. Canfield, C.J. Crannell, A.F. Holman, G.D. Holman, H.S. Hudson, G.J. Hurford, J.C. Ling, N.W. Madden, and R. Ramaty, SPIE Proc. Ser., 2804, 228, 1996.

9. Roll Angle System (RAS) for the High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager HESSI, Henneck, R., J. Bialkowski, F. Burri, M. Fivian, W. Hajdas, A. Mchedlishvili, P. Ming, K. Thomsen, J. Welte, A. Zehnder, M. Dettwyler, F. Buerki, G.J. Hurford, D.W. Curtis, and D. Pankow, Proc. SPIE, 3765, 518, 1999.

10. Solar Aspect System (SAS) for the High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI), Henneck, R., 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, Proc. SPIE, 3765, 771, 1999.

11. Cyclone, The Cyclotron/Nuclear Explorer, Boggs, S., Lin, R., Dennis, B., von Ballmoos, P., Thomsen, K., Hurford, G., Hurley, K., Madden, N., Smith, D., Jean, P., and Knoedelseder, J., Bull. A.A.S. , 32(3), 1262, 2000.

12. High energy particle acceleration by solar flares and fast coronal mass ejections, R.P. Lin, G. Hurford, S. Krucker, and S. Bale, Proc. of Solar Encounter: The 1st Solar Orbiter Workshop, 275-278, 2001.

13. Overview of the Cyclone hard X-ray observatory, S.E. Boggs, R.P. Lin, B.R. Dennis, N.W. Madden, P. von Ballmoos, K. Thomsen, G.J. Hurford, K.C. Hurley, D.M. Smith, R.M. Millan, P. Jean, and J. Knoedlseder, Exploring the Gamma-Ray Universe, Proceedings of the Fourth Integral Workshop, edited by B. Battrick, SP-459, 541-544, 2001.

14. Hard X-ray microflares down to 3 keV, S. Krucker, S. Christe, R.P. Lin, G.J. Hurford, and R. A. Schwartz, Solar Phys., 210, 445-456, 2002.

15. RHESSI data analysis software: rationale and methods, R. A. Schwartz, A. Csillaghy, A. K. Tolbert, G. J. Hurford, J. McTiernan, and D. Zarro, Solar Physics, 210, 165-191, 2002.

16. RHESSI observations of the size scales of solar hard X-ray sources, Schmahl, E.J. and G.J. Hurford, Solar Phys., 210, 273-286, 2002.

17. The PMTRAS roll aspect system on RHESSI, G. J. Hurford and D. W. Curtis, Solar Physics, 210, 101, 2002.

18. The Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), R.P. Lin, B.R. Dennis, G.J. Hurford, D.M. Smith, A. Zehnder, P.R. Harvey, D.W. Curtis, D. Pankow, P. Turin, M. Bester, A. Csillaghy, M. Lewis, N. Madden, H.F. van Beek, M. Appleby, T. Raudorf, J. McTiernan, R. Ramaty, E. Schmahl, R. Schwartz, S. Krucker, R. Abiad, T. Quinn, P. Berg, M. Hashii, R. Sterling, R. Jackson, R. Pratt, R.D. Campbell, D. Malone, D. Landis, C.P. Barrington-Leigh, S. Slassi-Sennou, C. Cork, D. Clark, D. Amato, L. Orwig, R. Boyle, I.S. Banks, K. Shirey, A.K. Tolbert, D. Zarro, F. Snow, K. Thomsen, R.Henneck, A. Mchedlishvili, P. Ming, M. Fivian, J. Jordan, R. Wanner, J. Crubb, J. Preble, M. Matranga, A. Benz, H. Hudson, R.C. Canfield, G.D. Holman, C. Crannell, T. Kosugi, A.G. Emslie, N. Vilmer, J.C. Brown, C. Johns-Krull, M. Aschwanden, T. Metcalf, and A. Conway, Solar Physics, 210, 3-32, 2002.

19. The RHESSI imaging concept, G.J. Hurford, E.J. Schmahl, R.A. Schwartz, A.J. Conway, M.J. Aschwanden, A. Csillaghy, B.R. Dennis, C. Johns-Krull, S. Krucker, R.P. Lin, J. McTiernan, T.R. Metcalf, J. Sato, and D.M. Smith, Solar Physics, 210, 61-86, 2002.

20. Coronal scattering as a source of flare-associated polarized hard X-rays, Hudson, H. S., Hurford, G. J., and Brown, J. C., Solar Phys., 214, 171-175, 2003.

21. First Gamma-Ray Images of a Solar Flare, G. J. Hurford, R. A. Schwartz, S. Krucker, R. P. Lin, D. M. Smith, and N. Vilmer, Astrophys. J. Lett., 595, L77-80, 2003.

22. Hard X-Ray Solar Flare Polarimetry with RHESSI, McConnell, M.L., Smith, D.M., Emslie, A.G., Hurford, G.J., Lin, R.P. and Ryan, J.M., "Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Atmosphere - Flares and Related Phenomena", COSPAR Colloquia (eds. Dennis,B.R., Lin,R., and Kosugi,T.), Pergamon, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Advances in Space Research, 32, 2003.

23. Hard X-Ray Source Motions in the 2002 July 23 Gamma-Ray Flare, Säm Krucker, G.J. Hurford, and R.P. Lin, Astrophys. J. Lett., 595, 2.2, L103-106, 2003.

24. Hard X-ray source profiles as determined by RHESSI, Schmahl, E.J. and Hurford, G.J., "Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Atmosphere - Flares and Related Phenomena", COSPAR Colloquia (eds. Dennis,B.R., Lin,R., and Kosugi,T.), Pergamon, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Advances in Space Research, 32, 2477, 2003.

25. Imaging with RHESSI, Hurford, G.J., SPIE Conf. Proc., 4853, 31-40, 2003.

26. Non-solar Astronomy with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), Smith, D., Lin, R., Hurley, K., Coburn, W., Hurford, G., Wigger, C., Hajdas, W., and Zehnder, A, Proc. SPIE, Eds. J. Trumper and H. Tanabaum, 4851, 1163, 2003.

27. RHESSI image and aspect systems, Zehnder, A., Bialkowski, J., Burri, F., Fivian, M., Henneck, R., Mchedlishvili, A., Ming, P., Welte, J., Thomsen, K., Clark, D., Dennis, B.R., Hurford, G.J., Curtis, D.W., Harvey, P.R., Pankow, D.H., in Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics, Proc. SPIE, edited by S.L. Keil and S.V. Avakyan, 4853, 41-59, 2003.

28. RHESSI observations of particle acceleration and energy release in an intense solar gamma-ray line flare, R.P. Lin, S. Krucker, G. J. Hurford, D. M. Smith, H. S. Hudson, G. D. Holman, R. A. Schwartz, B. R. Dennis, G. H. Share, R. J. Murphy, A. G. Emslie, C. Johns-Krull, and N. Vilmer , Astrophys. J. Lett., 595, L69-76, 2003.

29. RHESSI observations of the coronal component of solar flare hard X-ray sources, S.R. Kane and G.J. Hurford, Adv. Space Res., 586, 606-616, 2003.

30. Hard X-ray solar flare polarimetry with RHESSI, McConnell, M.L., Smith, D. M., Emslie, A. G., Hurford, G. J., Lin, R. P., and Ryan, J. M., Adv. Space Res., 34, 462, 2004.

31. On the photometric accuracy of RHESSI imaging and spectroscopy, Aschwanden, M.J., Metcalf, T.R., Krucker, S., Sato, J., Conway, A., Hurford, G.J., and Schmahl, E., Solar Phys., 219, 149-158, 2004.

32. Rotating modulation collimator imagers, D. M. Smith, G. J. Hurford, S. E. Boggs, New Astronomy Reviews, 48, 209-213, 2004.

33. The Reuven Ramaty high-energy solar spectroscopic imager (RHESSI) mission, Lin, R.P., Dennis, B., Hurford, G., Smith, D., Zehnder, A., Proc. SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering), 5171, 38, 2004.

34. An exceptionally bright flare from SGR 1806-20 and the origins of short-duration gamma-ray bursts, Hurley, K., S. E. Boggs, D. M. Smith, R. C. Duncan, R. Lin, A. Zoglauer, S. Krucker, G. Hurford, H. Hudson, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, C. Thompson, I. Mitrofanov, A. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, A. von Kienlin, G. Lichti, A. Rau and T. Cline, Nature, 434(7037), 1098-1103, 2005.

35. Gamma-Ray Imaging of the 2003 October/November Solar Flares , Hurford, G. J.; Krucker, S.; Lin, R. P.; Schwartz, R. A.; Share, G. H.; Smith, D. M., Astrophys. J., 644 (1), L93-L96, 2006.

36. A new method of observing weak extended x-ray sources with the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, Hannah, Iain G.; Hurford, Gordon J.; Hudson, Hugh S.; Lin, Robert P., Review of Scientific Instruments, 78 (2), 024501, 2007.

37. A Subsystem Test Bed for the Frequency-Agile Solar Radiotelescope, Liu, Zhiwei; Gary, Dale E.; Nita, Gelu M.; White, Stephen M.; Hurford, Gordon J., The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119 (853), 303-317, 2007.

38. Analysis of RHESSI Flares Using aRadio Astronomical Technique, Schmahl, E. J.; Pernak, R. L.; Hurford, G. J.; Lee, J.; Bong, S., Space Phys., 240 (2), 241-252, 2007.

39. Electron Flux Maps of Solar Flares:. a Regularization Approach to Rhessi Imaging Spectroscopy, Massone, Anna Maria; Piana, Michele; Prato, Marco; Gordon Emslie, A.; Hurford, Gordon J.; Kontar, Eduard P.; Schwartz, Richard A., MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN SCIENCE . Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy ≪Livio Scars≫ . Held 15-22 April 2007 in Erice, Italy. Edited by Vito Di Gesú (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy), Giosué Lo Bosco (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) & Maria Concetta Maccarone (IASF-Pa/INAF, Italy) . Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2007. ISBN #9789812779458, 48-54, 2007.

40. Electron Flux Spectral Imaging of Solar Flares through Regularized Analysis of Hard X-Ray Source Visibilities, Piana, Michele; Massone, Anna Maria; Hurford, G. J.; Prato, Marco; Emslie, A. Gordon; Kontar, Eduard P.; Schwartz, Richard A., Astrophys. J., 665 (1), 846-855, 2007.

41. First Limits on the 3-200 keV X-Ray Spectrum of the Quiet Sun Using RHESSI, Hannah, I. G.; Hurford, G. J.; Hudson, H. S.; Lin, R. P.; van Bibber, K. , Astrophys. J., 659 (1), L77-L80, 2007.

42. Radio Frequency Interference Excision Using Spectral-Domain Statistics, Nita, Gelu M.; Gary, Dale E.; Liu, Zhiwei; Hurford, Gordon J.; White, Stephen M., The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119 (857), 805-827, 2007.

43. A visibility-based approach using regularization for imaging-spectroscopy in solar X-ray astronomy, Prato, M.; Massone, A. M.; Piana, M.; Emslie, A. G.; Hurford, G. J.; Kontar, E. P.; Schwartz, R. A., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 135 (1), 012084, 2008.

44. Coronal γ-Ray Bremsstrahlung from Solar Flare-accelerated Electrons, Krucker, Säm; Hurford, G. J.; MacKinnon, A. L.; Shih, A. Y.; Lin, R. P., Astrophys. J., 678 (1), L63-L66, 2008.

45. Determining the Spatial Variation of Accelerated Electron Spectra in Solar Flares, Emslie, A. Gordon; Hurford, G. J.; Kontar, Eduard P.; Massone, Anna Maria; Piana, Michele; Prato, Marco; Xu, Yan, PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT IN THE HELIOSPHERE AND BEYOND: 7th Annual International Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1039, 3-10, 2008.

46. RHESSI Hard X-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy of Extended Sources and the Physical Properties of Electron Acceleration Regions in Solar Flares, Xu, Yan; Emslie, A. Gordon; Hurford, G. J., Astrophys. J., 673 (1), 576-585, 2008.

47. RHESSI Microflare Statistics. II. X-Ray Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Energy Distributions, Hannah, I. G.; Christe, S.; Krucker, S.; Hurford, G. J.; Hudson, H. S.; Lin, R. P., Astrophys. J., 677 (1), 704-718, 2008.

48. Hard X-ray Imaging of Solar Flares Using Interpolated Visibilities, Massone, Anna Maria; Emslie, A. Gordon; Hurford, G. J.; Prato, Marco; Kontar, Eduard P.; Piana, Michele, Astrophys. J., 703 (2), 2004-2016, 2009.

49. Constraining the hard X-ray properties of the quiet Sun with new RHESSI observations, Hannah, I. G.; Hudson, H. S.; Hurford, G. J.; Lin, R. P., eprint arXiv:1009.2918, 2010.

50. Uncovering Mechanisms of Coronal Magnetism via Advanced 3D Modeling of Flares and Active Regions, Fleishman, Gregory; Gary, Dale; Nita, Gelu; Alexander, David; Aschwanden, Markus; Bastian, Tim; Hudson, Hugh; Hurford, Gordon; Kontar, Eduard; Longcope, Dana; Mikic, Zoran; DeRosa, Marc; Ryan, James; White, Stephen, eprint arXiv:1011.2800, 2010.

51. X-ray imaging with collimators, masks and grids, Hurford, Gordon J., In: Observing Photons in Space / M.C.E. Huber, A. Pauluhn, J.L. Culhane, J.G. Timothy, K. Wilhelm, and A. Zehnder (eds.). ISSI Scientific Reports Series, ESA/ISSI. ISBN 978-92-9221-938-8, 223-234, 2010.

52. Deducing Electron Properties from Hard X-ray Observations, Kontar, E. P.; Brown, J. C.; Emslie, A. G.; Hajdas, W.; Holman, G. D.; Hurford, G. J.; Kašparová, J.; Mallik, P. C. V.; Massone, A. M.; McConnell, M. L.; Piana, M.; Prato, M.; Schmahl, E. J.; Suarez-Garcia, E., Space Sci. Rev., 159 (1-4), 301-355, 2011.

53. Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from γ-Ray and Neutron Observations, Vilmer, N.; MacKinnon, A. L.; Hurford, G. J., Space Sci. Rev., 159 (1-4), 167-224, 2011.

54. Allen Telescope Array Multi-frequency Observations of the Sun, Saint-Hilaire, P.; Hurford, G. J.; Keating, G.; Bower, G. C.; Gutierrez-Kraybill, C., Solar Phys., 277 (2), 431-445, 2012.

55. Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK). A mission to understand the nature of particle acceleration, Matthews, Sarah A.; Williams, David R.; Klein, Karl-Ludwig; Kontar, Eduard P.; Smith, David M.; Lagg, Andreas; Krucker, Sam; Hurford, Gordon J.; Vilmer, Nicole; MacKinnon, Alexander L.; Zharkova, Valentina V.; Fletcher, Lyndsay; Hannah, Iain G.; Browning, Philippa K.; Innes, Davina E.; Trottet, Gerard; Foullon, Clare; Nakariakov, Valery M.; Green, Lucie M.; Lamoureux, Herve; Forsyth, Colin; Walton, David M.; Mathioudakis, Mihalis; Gandorfer, Achim; Martinez-Pillet, Valentin; Limousin, Olivier; Verwichte, Erwin; Dalla, Silvia; Mann, Gottfried; Aurass, Henri; Neukirch, Thomas, Experimental Astronomy, 33 (2-3), 237-269, 2012.

56. The Height of a White-light Flare and Its Hard X-Ray Sources, Martínez Oliveros, Juan-Carlos; Hudson, Hugh S.; Hurford, Gordon J.; Krucker, Säm; Lin, R. P.; Lindsey, Charles; Couvidat, Sebastien; Schou, Jesper; Thompson, W. T., Astrophys. J. Lett., 753 (2), L26, 2012.

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