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This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave interactions transfer energy to high-frequency fast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Magnetic reconnection in the solar corona is thought to be unstable to the formation of multiple interacting plasmoids, and previous studies have shown that plasmoid dynamics can trigger MHD waves of different modes propagating outward from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Elena Provornikova , J. Martin Laming , Vyacheslav S. Lukin

Magnetic flux tubes in the solar corona support a rich variety of transverse oscillations, which are theoretically interpreted as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes with a fast and/or Alfv\'enic character. In the standard flux tube model made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Roberto Soler , Andrew Hillier

Aims. We investigate the transfer of energy between a standing kink mode and azimuthal Alfven waves within an expanding flux tube. We consider the process of resonant absorption in a loop with a non-uniform Alfven frequency profile but in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Andrew Wright

We present results of 3-D numerical simulations of a fast magnetic twister excited above a foot-point of the potential solar coronal arcade that is embedded in the solar atmosphere with the initial VAL-IIIC temperature profile, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. Murawski , A. K. Srivastava , Z. E. Musielak

Coronal jets are the captivating eruptions which are often found in the solar atmosphere, and primarily formed due to magnetic reconnection. Despite their short-lived nature and lower energy compared to many other eruptive events, e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sushree S Nayak , Samrat Sen , Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , R. Bhattacharyya , P. S. Athiray

It is well established now that the solar atmosphere, from photosphere to the corona and the solar wind is a highly structured medium. Satellite observations have confirmed the presence of steady flows. Here, we investigate the parallel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Zhelyazkov

We conduct a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the parametric decay instability of Alfv\'en waves and resultant compressible MHD turbulence, which is likely to develop in the solar wind acceleration region. Because…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama

We use MHD simulations to detect the nonlinear effects of torsional Alfv\'en wave propagation in a potential magnetic field with exponentially divergent field lines, embedded in a stratified solar corona. In Paper I we considered solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-10 Callum Boocock , David Tsiklauri

We present an alternative model of coronal-loop oscillations which considers that the waves are trapped in a 2D waveguide formed by the entire arcade of field lines. This differs from the standard 1D model which treats the waves as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

We describe how analytic solutions for linear hydromagnetic waves can be used for testing cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes. We start from the comoving MHD equations and derive analytic solutions for the amplitude evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Thomas Berlok

Complete asymptotic expansions are developed for slow, Alfv\'en and fast magnetohydrodynamic waves at the base of an isothermal three-dimensional (3D) plane stratified atmosphere. Together with existing convergent Frobenius series solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Paul S. Cally

Modern observatories have revealed the ubiquitous presence of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar corona. The propagating waves (in contrast to the standing waves) are usually originated in the lower solar atmosphere which makes them…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 D. Banerjee , S. Krishna Prasad , V. Pant , J. A. McLaughlin , P. Antolin , N. Magyar , L. Ofman , H. Tian , T. Van Doorsselaere , I. De Moortel , T. Wang

Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In magnetic waveguides resonant absorption due to plasma inhomogeneity naturally transfers wave energy from large-scale motions to small-scale motions. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Soler , J. Andries , M. Goossens

Although the mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar wind are still being actively investigated, it is largely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić , Andrea Verdini

Large-scale coronal plasma evolutions can be adequately described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. However, full multi-dimensional MHD simulations require substantial computational resources. Given the low plasma $\beta$ in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuhao Zhou , Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens

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

The long-term evolution of large-amplitude Alfven waves propagating in the solar wind is investigated by performing two-dimensional MHD simulations within the expanding box model. The linear and nonlinear phases of the parametric decay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 L. Del Zanna , L. Matteini , S. Landi , A. Verdini , M. Velli

Static distributions of temperature and wind velocity at the transition region are calculated within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of completely ionized hydrogen plasma. The numerical solution of the derived equations gives…

We present a new MHD wave decomposition method that overcomes the limitations of existing wave identification methods. Our method allows to investigate the energy fluxes in different MHD modes at different locations of the solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Yadav , Rony Keppens , B. Popescu Braileanu