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We aim at investigating the formation of jet-like features in the lower solar atmosphere, e.g. chromosphere and transition region, as a result of magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection as occurring at chromospheric and transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Y. Ding , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Q. M. Lu , K. Vanninathan , Z. Huang

Magnetic fields permeate the entire solar atmosphere weaving an extremely complex pattern on both local and global scales. In order to understand the nature of this tangled web of magnetic fields, its magnetic skeleton, which forms the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-22 C. E. Parnell , J. E. H. Stevenson , J. Threlfall , S. J. Edwards

3D MHD global solar simulations coupling the turbulent convective zone and the radiative zone have been carried out. Essential features of the Sun such as differential rotation, meridional circulation and internal waves excitation are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Strugarek Antoine , Brun Allan Sacha , Zahn Jean-Paul

We review our understanding of ionized plasma and neutral gas coupling in the weakly ionized, stratified, electromagnetically-permeated regions of the Sun's chromosphere and Earth's ionosphere/thermosphere. Using representative models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. E. Leake , C. R. DeVore , J. P. Thayer , A. G. Burns , G. Crowley , H. R. Gilbert , J. D Huba , J. Krall , M. G. Linton , V. S. Lukin , W. Wang

We present evidence for the conversion and transmission of wave modes on the magnetic flux tubes that constitute mottles and form the magnetic canopy in a quiet Sun region, highlighting the details and key parameters of the mechanism that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Georgia Tsiropoula , Kostas Tziotziou

Aims. We seek indications or evidence of transmission/conversion of magnetoacoustic waves at the magnetic canopy, as a result of its impact on the properties of the wave field of the photosphere and chromosphere. Methods. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Georgia Tsiropoula , Kostas Tziotziou

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in violent energy conversion occurring in the environments of high electrical conductivity, such as the solar atmosphere, magnetosphere, and fusion devices. We focus on the morphological features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Lin , S. R. Cranmer , C. J. Farrugia

In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause the energy transfer between different modes. The perturbation interpreted as an interaction between the modes is inferred as mode coupling. Mode coupling process in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Zahra Fazel

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

In addition to the `facular' brightening of active regions, the quiet Sun also contains a small scale magnetic field with associated brightenings in continuum radiation. We measure this contribution of quiet regions to the Sun's brightness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 R. S. Schnerr , H. C. Spruit

The problem of solar chromospheric heating remains a challenging one with wider implications for stellar physics. Several studies in the recent past have shown that small-scale inclined magnetic field elements channel copious amount of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-14 S. P. Rajaguru , C. R. Sangeetha , Durgesh Tripathi

We have measured the energy and dissipation of Alfvenic waves in the quiet Sun. A magnetic field was used to infer the location and orientation of the magnetic field lines along which the waves are expected to travel. The waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

The solar magnetic field is the primary agent that drives solar activity and couples the Sun to the Heliosphere. Although the details of this coupling depend on the quantitative properties of the field, many important aspects of the corona…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , J. T. Karpen , Z. Mikic

Magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of magnetic field topology, is a fundamental physical process in magnetized plasma systems all over the universe1,2. Its process is difficult to be directly observed. Coronal structures, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Eric Priest , Huadong Chen , Lijia Guo , Feng Chen , Duncan Mackay

Magnetic switchbacks are large amplitude deflections of the magnetic field within the solar wind. They are Alfv\'enic in character and so are associated with a spike in velocity and a generally small variation in local plasma density. Early…

The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind. Although much has been learned in recent decades from advances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Steven R. Cranmer , Amy R. Winebarger

The structure and dynamics of the outer solar atmosphere are reviewed with emphasis on the role played by the magnetic field. Contemporary observations that focus on high resolution imaging over a range of temperatures, as well as UV, EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Lyndsay Fletcher , Peter J. Cargill , Spiro K. Antiochos , Boris V. Gudiksen

There is increasingly strong observational evidence that slow magnetoacoustic modes arise in the solar atmosphere. Solar magneto-seismology is a novel tool to derive otherwise directly un-measurable properties of the solar atmosphere when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Luna-Cardozo , G. Verth , R. Erdélyi

Context. Magnetic bright points (MBPs) are one of the smallest manifestations of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere and are observed to extend from the photosphere up to the chromosphere. As such, they represent an excellent feature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Arthur Berberyan , Peter H. Keys , David B. Jess , Damian J. Christian

One of the puzzling features of solar magnetism is formation of long-living compact magnetic structures; such as sunspots and pores, in the highly turbulent upper layer of the solar convective zone. We use realistic radiative 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev , A. A. Wray , N. N. Mansour