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The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Chromospheric and prominence plasmas contain neutral atoms, which may change the plasma dynamics through collision with ions. Most of the atoms are neutral hydrogen, but a significant amount of neutral helium may also be present in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. L. Khodachenko , H. O. Rucker

Transverse oscillations of thin threads in solar prominences are frequently reported in high-resolution observations. Two typical features of the observations are that the oscillations are damped in time and that simultaneous mass flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Soler , M. S. Ruderman , M. Goossens

The fine structure of solar prominences is made by thin threads that outline the magnetic field lines. Observations show that transverse waves of Alfv\'enic nature are ubiquitous in prominence threads. These waves are driven at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Llorenç Melis , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The wave propagation in the partially ionized ionosphere plays an important role in the magnetosphere ionosphere coupling. For example, the ionosphere may supports very low-frequency Alfven wave which can be caused by a balance between the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 B P Pandey

We present a comprehensive review of MHD wave behaviour in the neighbourhood of coronal null points: locations where the magnetic field, and hence the local Alfven speed, is zero. The behaviour of all three MHD wave modes, i.e. the Alfven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood , I. De Moortel

It has been shown that resonant absorption is a robust physical mechanism to explain the observed damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in the solar atmosphere due to naturally occurring plasma inhomogeneity in the direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Gary Verth , Marcel Goossens

Compressible disturbances propagate in a plasma in the form of magnetoacoustic waves driven by both gas pressure and magnetic forces. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of ionized and neutral species are coupled due to ion-neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marc Carbonell , Jose Luis Ballester

High resolution observations of solar filaments suggest the presence of groups of prominence threads, i.e. the fine-structures of prominences, which oscillate coherently (in phase). In addition, mass flows along threads have been often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Soler , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Threads are the main constituents of prominences and are subjected to oscillations that might be interpreted as MHD waves. Moreover, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been reported in prominences. Both waves and KHI may affect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Sergio Díaz-Suárez , Roberto Soler

Phase mixing of standing continuum Alfv\'en waves and/or continuum slow waves in atmospheric magnetic structures such as coronal arcades can create the apparent effect of a wave propagating across the magnetic field. We observe a prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 J. O. Raes , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Baes , A. N. Wright

We derive the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic waves in two-fluid partially ionized plasmas and to compare the results with those obtained under single-fluid description. Two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic equations are used, where ion-electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. K. Khodachenko , H. O. Rucker

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitously observed in the solar atmosphere. Kink waves are a type of transverse MHD waves in magnetic flux tubes that are damped due to resonant absorption. The theoretical study of kink MHD waves in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver

Context. Recent observations of solar prominences show the presence of turbulent flows that may be caused by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilites (KHI). However, the observed flow velocities are below the classical threshold for the onset of KHI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Solar prominences are cool 10$^4$ Kelvin plasma clouds supported in the surrounding 10$^6$ Kelvin coronal plasma by as-yet undetermined mechanisms. Observations from \emph{Hinode} show fine-scale threadlike structures oscillating in the…

A ray-theoretic phase space description of linear waves in a two-fluid (charges and neutrals) magnetized plasma is used to calculate analytic decay rates and mode transmission and conversion coefficients between fast and slow waves in two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Paul S Cally , M. M. Gomez-Miguez

Alfv\'enic waves have gained renewed interest since the existence of ubiquitous propagating kink waves were discovered in the corona. {It has long been suggested that Alfv\'enic} waves play an important role in coronal heating and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ajay K. Tiwari , Richard J. Morton , Stephane Régnier , James A. McLaughlin

Observations have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves over a large frequency range are ubiquitous in solar prominences. The waves are probably driven by photospheric motions and may transport energy up to prominences suspended in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Observations show that transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and flows are often simultaneously present in magnetic loops of the solar corona. The waves are resonantly damped in the Alfv\'en continuum because of plasma and/or magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Roberto Soler

We investigate the properties of nonlinear fast magnetosonic (NFM) waves in a solar prominence, motivated by recent high-resolution and high-cadence Hinode/SOT observations of small-scale oscillations in a prominence pillar. As an example,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Leon Ofman , Therese A. Kucera , C. Richard DeVore