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Large-amplitude decaying kink oscillations of coronal loops are strongly influenced by nonlinear processes, such as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and turbulence, though comprehensive theory and observational confirmation remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Context. Tracing wave activity from the photosphere to the corona has important implications for coronal heating and prediction of the solar wind. Despite extensive theory and simulations, the detection of waves in realistic MHD simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley

This paper reviews the latest observational evidence for the existence of propagating waves in the open magnetic flux tubes of the solar corona. SOHO measurements have put tentative limits on the fluxes of various types of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer

We model an imaged Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability on a coronal mass ejecta (CME) in the lower corona by investigating conditions under which kink ($m = 1$) and $m = -3$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in an uniformly twisted flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Chandra

This paper separately evaluates the effects of inclination and asymmetry of solar coronal loops on the resonant absorption of kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations. We modelled a typical coronal loop by a straight and axisymmetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 Sirwan Amiri , Kayoomars Karami , Zanyar Ebrahimi

Context: In the context of the solar coronal heating problem, one possible explanation for the high coronal temperature is the release of energy by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. The energy transfer is believed to be possible, among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michaël Geeraerts , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, playing a crucial role in transporting energy through the solar atmosphere, manifest in various chromospheric structures. Here, we investigated MHD waves in a long-lasting dark fibril using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Maryam Saberi , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Sven Wedemeyer , Ricardo Gafeira , Mikolaj Szydlarski , David Jess , Marco Stangalini

The role of slow-mode MHD shocks in magnetic reconnection is one of great importance for energy conversion and transport, but in many astrophysical plasmas the plasma is not fully ionised. In this paper, we investigate, using numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Andrew Hillier , Shinsuke Takasao , Naoki Nakamura

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

The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) has opened up exciting opportunities to probe transverse MHD waves in the Sun's corona. The archive of CoMP data is utilised to generate a catalogue of quiescent coronal loops that can be used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Ajay K. Tiwari , Richard J. Morton , James A. McLaughlin

We extend the classical two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) formalism to include quantum effects such as electron Fermi pressure, Bohm pressure and spin couplings. At scales smaller than the electron skin-depth, the Hall effect and electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Daniel O. Gomez , Alejandra Kandus

Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

The solar corona is a hot, dynamic, and highly magnetized plasma environment whose source of energy is not yet well understood. One leading contender for that energy source is the dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves or turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Steven R. Cranmer

We examine wave propagation and the formation of shocks in strongly magnetized plasmas by applying a variational technique and the method of characteristics to the coupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and quantum-electrodynamic (QED) equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeremy S. Heyl , Lars Hernquist

We consider a series of MHD simulations in which a small amplitude, transverse velocity perturbation is introduced into a complex magnetic field. We analysed the deformation of the wave fronts as the perturbation propagates through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Jack Reid , Alan Hood

Magnetoacoustic waves in solar magnetic flux tubes may be affected by the presence of background rotational flows. Here, we investigate the behaviour of $m=0$ and $m=\pm 1$ modes of a magnetic flux tube in the presence of linear background…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Samuel Skirvin , Viktor Fedun , Suzana Silva , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Niels Claes , Marcel Goossens , Gary Verth

Magnetohydrodynamics in divergence form describes a hyperbolic system of covariant and constraint-free equations. It comprises a linear combination of an algebraic constraint and Faraday's equations. Here, we study the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Interfacial waves arising in a two-phase swirling flow driven by a low-frequency rotating magnetic field (RMF) are studied. At low RMF frequencies, of the order of 1-10 Hz, the oscillatory part of the induced Lorenz force becomes comparable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-09 Gerrit Maik Horstmann , Yakov Nezihovski , Thomas Gundrum , Alexander Gelfgat

The nonlinear theory of driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) waves in strongly anisotropic and dispersive plasmas, developed for slow resonance by Clack and Ballai [Phys. Plasmas, 15, 2310 (2008)] and Alfv\'en resonance by Clack \emph{et al.}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 C. Clack , I. Ballai

We present observational evidence for the presence of MHD waves in the solar photosphere deduced from SOHO/MDI Dopplergram velocity observations. The magneto-acoustic perturbations are observed as acoustic power enhancement in the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 S. Zharkov , S. Shelyag , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi , M. J. Thompson