Below is an overview of publications using Legolas. If you have used the code in your research and would like to be listed here, please contact us.

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A visual approach to global accretion disc instabilities, N. Brughmans & R. Keppens, 2025, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 542(2), 1347 (17pp). PDF
arXiv
The Hydrodynamic Thermal Continuum, with Applications to Stratified Atmospheres and 1D Coronal Loop Models, R. Keppens, J. De Jonghe, A. Kelly, N. Brughmans & H. Goedbloed, 2025, The Astrophysical Journal 989, 51 (13pp). PDF
arXiv
The coupled tearing–thermal instability in coronal current sheets from the linear to the non-linear stage, J. De Jonghe & S. Sen, 2025, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 536(4), 3308 (14pp). PDF
arXiv
A spectroscopic investigation of thermal instability for cylindrical equilibria with background flow, J. Hermans & R. Keppens, 2024, Astronomy & Astrophysics 686, A180 (18pp). PDF
arXiv
Parametric Survey of Nonaxisymmetric Accretion Disk Instabilities: Magnetorotational Instability to Super-Alfvénic Rotational Instability, N. Brughmans, R. Keppens & H. Goedbloed, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal 968(1), 19 (20pp). PDF
arXiv
Modification of the resistive tearing instability with Joule heating by shear flow, J. De Jonghe & R. Keppens, 2024, Physics of Plasmas 31(3), 032106 (19pp). PDF
arXiv
Neural network classification of eigenmodes in the magnetohydrodynamic spectroscopy code Legolas, J. De Jonghe & M.D. Kuczyński, 2024, Neural Computing and Applications 36(11), 5955-5964 (10pp). PDF
arXiv
Legolas 2.0: Improvements & extensions to an MHD spectroscopic framework, N. Claes & R. Keppens, 2023, Computer Physics Communications 291, 108856 (13pp). PDF
arXiv
An MHD eigenspectrum approach to thermal instabilities, N. Claes, PhD Thesis (Promotor Prof. R. Keppens), KU Leuven, May 2022. PDF
Legolas: magnetohydrodynamic spectroscopy with viscosity and Hall current, J. De Jonghe, N. Claes & R. Keppens, 2022, Journal of Plasma Physics 88, 905880321 (25pp). PDF
arXiv
Magnetohydrodynamic Spectroscopy of a Non-adiabatic Solar Atmosphere, N. Claes & R. Keppens, 2021, Sol. Phys. 296, 143 (24pp). PDF
arXiv
Legolas: A Modern Tool for Magnetohydrodynamic Spectroscopy, N. Claes, J. De Jonghe & R. Keppens, 2020, ApJ Supplement Series 251, 25 (28pp). PDF
arXiv