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We analyze \textit{Parker Solar Probe} and \textit{Solar Orbiter} observations to investigate the propagation and dissipation of Alfv\'enic fluctuations from the outer corona to 1~AU. Conservation of wave-action flux provides the…

Two well known turbulent dynamo and MHD oscillation mechanisms are critically examined and fundamental difficulties are presented. Following new ideas on the genesis of the solar cycle and activity phenomena are presented. Inevitability of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 K. M. Hiremath

Prominence oscillations are one of interesting phenomena in the solar atmosphere, which can be utilized to infer the embedded magnetic field magnitude. We present here the transverse oscillations of two different prominences located at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , P. F. Chen , Brigitte Schmieder , Wahab Uddin , Yong-Jae Moon

Alfven waves propagating in a vertically stratified plasma, such as those travelling from the solar photosphere to the corona, are partially reflected due to the gradient in the Alfven speed. Wave reflection naturally results in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Roberto Soler

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

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

Extreme-ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory often show looplike fine structure to be present where no minority-polarity flux is visible in magnetograms, suggesting that the rate of ephemeral region (ER) emergence inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. -M. Wang

Radio signals propagating via the solar corona and solar wind are significantly affected by compressive waves, impacting properties of solar bursts as well as sources viewed through the turbulent solar atmosphere. While static fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Francesco Azzollini , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Eduard P. Kontar

An isolated, isothermal, and wide magnetic flux tube embedded either in the solar chromosphere or in the lower solar corona is considered, and the propagation of linear torsional Alfv'en waves is investigated. It is shown that the wideness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Swati Routh , Z. E. Musielak , M. N. Sundar , Sai Sravanthi Joshi , Sree Charan

In this work, we report our multi-wavelength observations of the transverse oscillation of a large scale coronal loop with a length of 350 Mm. The oscillation was induced by a blowout coronal jet, which was related to a circular ribbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 J. Dai , Q. M. Zhang , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji

There is intense interest in determining the precise contribution of Alfv\'enic waves propagating along solar structures to the problems of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Since the launch of SDO/AIA, it has been possible to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. O. Thurgood , R. J Morton , J. A. McLaughlin

Coronal bright points (BPs) are numerous, bright, small-scale dynamical features found in the solar corona. Bright points have been observed to exhibit intensity oscillations across a wide range of periodicities and are likely an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Brad Ramsey , Erwin Verwichte , Huw Morgan

The aim of the present study is to shed light on the effects connected with thermal misbalance due to non-equal cooling and heating rates induced by density and temperature perturbations in solar active regions hosting either propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 S. A. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich

Here we review the recent progress made in the detection, examination, characterisation and interpretation of oscillations manifesting in small-scale magnetic elements in the solar photosphere. This region of the Sun's atmosphere is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 David B. Jess , Gary Verth

EUV images of Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) from the AIA show striations related to the magnetic field structure in both open and closed magnetic regions. The brightness contrast implies coronal density contrasts of at least a factor of 6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. C. Raymond , P. I. McCauley , S. R. Cranmer , C. Downs

The solar wind emanates from the hot and tenuous solar corona. Earlier studies using 1.5 dimensional simulations show that Alfv\'{e}n waves generated in the photosphere play an important role in coronal heating through the process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takuma Matsumoto , Takeru Ken Suzuki

The solar corona has been revealed in the past decade to be a highly dynamic nonequilibrium plasma environment. Both the loop-filled coronal base and the extended acceleration region of the solar wind appear to be strongly turbulent, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer

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

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are low-frequency, buoyancy-driven waves that are generated by turbulent convection and propagate obliquely throughout the solar atmosphere. Their proposed energy contribution to the lower solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Oana Vesa , Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin Reardon

Using advanced numerical magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere, including non-grey radiative transport and a non-ideal equation of state, we analyse plasma motions in photospheric magnetic vortices. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Shelyag , P. S. Cally , A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed sub-Alfvenic solar wind intervals during encounters 8 - 14, and low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in these regions may differ from that in super-Alfvenic wind. We apply a new mode-decomposition…