Nathan Schwadron

Nathan Schwadron

PROFESSOR
Phone: (603) 862-3451
Office: Physics, Morse Hall Rm 350, Durham, NH 03824
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Courses Taught

  • PHYS 440A: Hon/Our Place in the Universe
  • PHYS 935: Statistical Physics
  • PHYS 939: Classical Mechanics
  • PHYS 999: Doctoral Research

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Michigan
  • B.A., Physics, Oberlin College

Selected Publications

  • Zeitlin, C., Johnson, A. S., Schwadron, N. A., Spence, H. E., Wilson, J., Case, A. W., . . . Mazur, J. E. (2025). Comparison of Solar Energetic Particle Flux Measurements by CRaTER and GOES. Space Weather, 23(4). doi:

  • Winslow, R. M., Scolini, C., Lugaz, N., Schwadron, N. A., & Galvin, A. B. (2023). On the Contribution of Coronal Mass Ejections to the Heliospheric Magnetic Flux Budget on Different Time Scales. The Astrophysical Journal, 958(1), 41. doi:

  • Swaczyna, P., Schwadron, N. A., Möbius, E., Bzowski, M., Frisch, P. C., Linsky, J. L., . . . Zank, G. P. (2022). Mixing Interstellar Clouds Surrounding the Sun. ApJL, 937 (2022), L32. Retrieved from

  • Zaman, F. A., Townsend, L. W., de Wet, W. C., Looper, M. D., Brittingham, J. M., Burahmah, N. T., . . . Smith, S. S. (2022). Modeling the Lunar Radiation Environment: A Comparison Among FLUKA, Geant4, HETC-HEDS, MCNP6, and PHITS. SPACE WEATHER-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, 20(8). doi:

  • Galli, A., Wurz, P., Schwadron, N. A., Fairchild, K., Heirtzler, D., Mobius, E., . . . McComas, D. J. (2022). One Solar Cycle of Heliosphere Observations with the Interstellar Boundary Explorer: Energetic Neutral Hydrogen Atoms Observed with IBEX-Lo from 10 eV to 2 keV. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 261(2). doi:

  • Kasper, J. C., Bale, S. D., Belcher, J. W., Berthomier, M., Case, A. W., Chandran, B. D. G., . . . Schwadron, N. A. (2019). Alfvenic velocity spikes and rotational flows in the near-Sun solar wind. NATURE, 576(7786), 228-+. doi:

  • Heerikhuisen, J., Pogorelov, N. V., Zank, G. P., Crew, G. B., Frisch, P. C., Funsten, H. O., . . . Schwadron, N. A. (2010). PICK-UP IONS IN THE OUTER HELIOSHEATH: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXplorer RIBBON. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 708(2), L126-L130. doi:

  • McComas, D. J., Allegrini, F., Bochsler, P., Bzowski, M., Christian, E. R., Crew, G. B., . . . Zank, G. P. (2009). Global Observations of the Interstellar Interaction from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). SCIENCE, 326(5955), 959-962. doi:

  • McComas, D. J., Ebert, R. W., Elliott, H. A., Goldstein, B. E., Gosling, J. T., Schwadron, N. A., & Skoug, R. M. (2008). Weaker solar wind from the polar coronal holes and the whole Sun. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 35(18). doi:

  • von Steiger, R., Schwadron, N. A., Fisk, L. A., Geiss, J., Gloeckler, G., Hefti, S., . . . Zurbuchen, T. H. (2000). Composition of quasi-stationary solar wind flows from ulysses/solar wind ion composition spectrometer. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS, 105(A12), 27217-27238. doi:

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