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.

De Jonghe, J., & Sen, S. (2025). The coupled tearing–thermal instability in coronal current sheets from the linear to the non-linear stage. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(4), 3308-3321.

Reference Links
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