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We model a coronal loop as a three-dimensional magnetic cylinder in a realistic solar atmosphere that extends from the chromosphere to the corona. Kink oscillations, believed ubiquitous in the solar corona, are launched in the loop. Heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Mingzhe Guo , Timothy Duckenfield , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas , Gabriel Pelouze , Yuhang gao

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

Despite its prediction over two decades ago, the detection of faint, high-temperature ("hot") emission due to nanoflare heating in non-flaring active region cores has proved challenging. Using an efficient two-fluid hydrodynamic model, this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 W. T. Barnes , P. J. Cargill , S. J. Bradshaw

Fine-scale braiding of coronal magnetic loops by continuous footpoint motions may power coronal heating via nanoflares, which are spontaneous fine-scale bursts of internal reconnection. An initial nanoflare may trigger an avalanche of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Caroline E. Alexander , Amy R. Winebarger , Ronald L. Moore

The formation of the observed core-halo feature in the solar wind electron velocity distribution function is a long-time puzzle. In this letter based on the current knowledge of nanoflares we show that the nanoflare-accelerated electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Che , M. Goldstein

The nature and detailed properties of the heating of the million-degree solar corona are important issues that are still largely unresolved. Nanoflare heating might be dominant in active regions and quiet Sun, although direct signatures of…

Thermodynamics and dynamics of a classical two-dimensional system with dipole-like isotropic repulsive interactions are studied systematically using extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations supplemented by appropriate theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Sergey Khrapak , Nikita Kryuchkov , Stanislav Yurchenko

There is considerable observational evidence of implosion of magnetic loop systems inside solar coronal active regions following high energy events like solar flares. In this work, we propose that such collapse can be modeled in three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Aveek Sarkar , Bhargav Vaidya , Soumitra Hazra , Jishnu Bhattacharyya

As one of the most violent activities in the solar atmosphere, white-light flares (WLFs) are generally known for their enhanced white-light (or continuum) emission, which primarily originates in the solar lower atmosphere. However, we know…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yu-Tong Yang , Jie Hong , Ying Li , Ming-De Ding , Hui Li

Small scale transients occur in the Solar corona at much higher frequencies than flares and play a significant role in coronal dynamics. Here we study three well-identified transients discovered by Hi-C and also detected by the EUV channels…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Abhishek Rajhans , Durgesh Tripathi , Vinay L. Kashyap

Turbulence plays a key role for forming the complex geometry of the large-scale current sheet (CS) and fast energy release in a solar eruption. In this paper, we present full 3D high-resolution simulations for the process of a moderate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jing Ye , John C. Raymond , Zhixing Mei , Qiangwei Cai , Yuhao Chen , Yan Li , Jun Lin

The dynamics of ultrafast energy transfer to water clusters and to bulk water by a highly intense, sub-cycle THz pulse of duration $\approx$~150~fs is investigated in the context of force-field molecular dynamics simulations. We focus our…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-07-11 Pankaj Kr. Mishra , Oriol Vendrell , Robin Santra

A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

The fast solar wind is a collisionless plasma permeated by plasma waves on many different scales. A plasma wave represents the natural interplay between the periodic changes of the electromagnetic field and the associated coherent motions…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch

To examine the evolution of giant molecular clouds in the stream of a hot plasma we performed two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations that take full account of self-gravity, heating and cooling effects and heat conduction by electrons.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Vieser , G. Hensler

We investigate the processes that lead to the formation, ejection and fall of a confined plasma ejection that was observed in a numerical experiment of the solar corona. By quantifying physical parameters such as mass, velocity, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Zacharias , H. Peter , S. Bingert

Observations of slow magneto-acoustic waves have been demonstrated to possess a number of applications in coronal seismology. Determination of the polytropic index ($\gamma$) is one such important application. Analysing the amplitudes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Krishna Prasad , J. O. Raes , T. Van Doorsselaere , N. Magyar , D. B. Jess

Using numerical simulations, we study the formation and dynamics of post-flare loops in a local region of the solar atmosphere. The MHD equations rule the post-flare structures' dynamic evolution, including space-dependent magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio González-Servín , J. J. González-Avilés

In eruptive solar flares, termination shocks (TSs), formed when high-speed reconnection outflows collide with closed dense flaring loops, are believed to be one of the possible candidates for plasma heating and particle acceleration. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Chengcai Shen , Xiangliang Kong , Fan Guo , John C. Raymond , Bin Chen

Collisionless plasma shocks are a common feature of many space and astrophysical systems and are sources of high-energy particles and non-thermal emission, channeling as much as 20\% of the shock's energy into non-thermal particles. The…

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