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Antonio Franco Rappazzo

Education
  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Pisa, Italy, (2006)
  • Laurea (M.S. equivalent), Physics, University of Pisa, Italy, (2002)
Research Interests
  • Heating of Solar and stellar atmospheres
  • MHD Turbulence
  • Acceleration of the Solar Wind
  • Magnetic Reconnection and ideal plasma instabilities
  • Computational Physics and Parallel/High-performance Computing
Professional Experience
  • Nasa Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (2006-Present)
  • Research Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (2004-2005)
Selected Awards
  • JPL Outstanding Postdoc Research Award, (2007)
  • University of Pisa Fellowship for Graduate Studies, (2003 - 2005)
Selected Publications
  1. A.F. Rappazzo, M. Velli, G. Einaudi & R.B. Dahlburg, "Nonlinear Dynamics of the Parker Scenario for Coronal Heating", ApJ, 677, 1348 (2008) arXiv e-print:
    arXiv:0709.3687v2 [astro-ph].
  2. A.F. Rappazzo, M. Velli, G. Einaudi & R.B. Dahlburg, "Coronal Heating,Weak MHD Turbulence and Scaling Laws", ApJ, 657, L47 (2007) arXiv e-print:
    arXiv:astro-ph701872v2.
  3. L. Bettarini, S. Landi, A.F. Rappazzo, M. Velli & M. Opher, "Tearing and Kelvin Helmholtz Instabilities in the Heliospheric Plasma", A&A, 452, 321 (2006).
  4. A.F. Rappazzo, M. Velli, G. Einaudi & R.B. Dahlburg, "Diamagnetic and Expansion Effects on the Observable Properties of the Slow Solar Wind in a Coronal Streamer", ApJ, 633, 474 (2005).
  5. A.F. Rappazzo, M. Velli, G. Einaudi & R.B. Dahlburg, "Evolution of Wake Instabilities and the Acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind: Melon Seed and Expansion Effects", Solar Wind Ten: Proceedings of the Tenth International Solar Wind Conference, Eds. M. Velli, R. Bruno & F. Malara, AIP Conference Proceedings, 679, 371 (2003).

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