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The trajectories of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often seen to substantially deviate from a purely radial propagation direction. Such deviations occur predominantly in the corona and have been attributed to "channeling" or deflection…

Slow dissipation of non-potential magnetic fields in the magnetosphere of the magnetar is assumed to accelerate particles to hundreds MeV along the magnetic field lines. We consider interaction of fast particles with the surface of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-26 Yury Lyubarsky , David Eichler

How the solar wind is accelerated to its supersonic speed is intimately related to how it is heated. Mechanisms based on ion-cyclotron resonance have been successful in explaining a large number of observations, those concerning the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-03 Bo Li , Shadia Rifai Habbal

Corrected analytical solutions describing the enhanced phase mixing of Alfven waves propagating in divergent stratified coronal structures are presented. These show that the enhanced phase mixing mechanism can dissipate Alfven waves at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-22 P. D. Smith , D. Tsiklauri , M. S. Ruderman

The solar inner corona is a region that plays a critical role in energizing the solar wind and propelling it to supersonic and supra-Alfvenic velocities. Despite its importance, this region remains poorly understood because of being least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 Richa N. Jain , R. K. Choudhary , Anil Bhardwaj , T. Imamura , Anshuman Sharma , Umang M. Parikh

A comprehensive understanding of solar coronal heating and charged particle acceleration remains one of the most critical challenges in space and astrophysical plasma physics. In this study, we explore the contribution of Alfv\'en waves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Syed Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , Yeimy J. Rivera , Andreas Shalchi , L. -L. Zhao

We present for the first time the joint distribution of electron heat flux and electron plasma beta, and the joint distribution of core electron drift velocity and electron plasma beta using a statistically large dataset of solar wind…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Yuguang Tong , Stuart D. Bale , Chadi Salem , Marc Pulupa

There are ubiquitous flows observed in the solar atmosphere of sub-Alfv\'{e}nic speeds, however after flaring and coronal mass ejection events flows can become Alfv\'{e}nic. In this Letter, we derive an expression for the standing kink mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Terradas , I. Arregui , G. Verth , M. Goossens

The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) has previously demonstrated the presence of Doppler velocity fluctuations in the solar corona. The observed fluctuations are thought to be transverse waves, i.e. highly incompressible motions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 R. J. Morton , S. Tomczyk , R. F. Pinto

Here we investigate the contribution of surface Alfven wave damping to the heating of the solar wind in minima conditions. These waves are present in regions of strong inhomogeneities in density or magnetic field (e. g., the border between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. M. Evans , M. Opher , V. Jatenco-Pereira , T. I. Gombosi

The compact laboratory stand ``Solar Wind'' (Inst. Appl. Phys. of Russ. Acad. Sci.) forms an arch structure of the coronal loop type, in which the plasma pressure varies from zero to values of the order of and above the magnetic pressure.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Sergey A. Koryagin , Mikhail E. Viktorov

One of the main theories for heating of the solar corona is based on the idea that solar convection shuffles and tangles magnetic field lines to make many small-scale current sheets that, via reconnection, heat coronal loops. Tiwari et al…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 V. Aparna , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar , Brian Welsch , Bart De Pontieu , Aimee Norton

We study the connections between the sun's convection zone and the evolution of the solar wind and corona. We let the magnetic fields generated by a 2.5D axisymmetric kinematic dynamo code (STELEM) evolve in a 2.5D axisymmetric coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rui F. Pinto , Allan Sacha Brun , Laurène Jouve , Roland Grappin

In the vicinity of Earth's orbit, the typical solar wind Alfv\'{e}n Mach number exceeds 5, and the super-Alfv\'{e}nic solar wind drives a conventional magnetosphere configuration. However, at the ejecta phase of an interplanetary coronal…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Yuxi Chen , Chuanfei Dong , Li-Jen Chen , Menelaos Sarantos , Brandon L. Burkholder

Space weather modelling has been gaining importance due to our increasing dependency on technology sensitive to space weather effects, such as satellite services, air traffic and power grids. Improving the reliability, accuracy and…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Michaela Brchnelova , Boris Gudiksen , Mats Carlsson , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en waves is investigated in a zero $\beta$ plasma. This gives an indication of wave propagation in the low $\beta$ solar corona. It is found that for a two-dimensional null point, the fast wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood

The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, contains plasma at temperatures of more than a million K, more than 100 times hotter that solar surface. How this gas is heated is a fundamental question tightly interwoven with the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-07 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung

Super-Alfv\'enic shock waves associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can produce radio emission known as Type II bursts. In the absence of direct imaging, accurate estimates of coronal electron densities, magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Pietro Zucca , Eoin P. Carley , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

Stellar dynamos generate magnetic fields that are of fundamental importance to the variability and evolution of Sun-like and low-mass stars, and for the development of their planetary systems. We report measurements of surface-average…

We numerically investigate the excitation and temporal evolution of oscillations in a two-dimensional coronal arcade by including the three-dimensional propagation of perturbations. The time evolution of impulsively generated perturbations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Rial , I. Arregui , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester