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Solar oscillations are expected to be excited by turbulent flows in the intergranular lanes near the solar surface. Time series recorded by the IMaX instrument aboard the {\sc Sunrise} observatory reveal solar oscillations at high…

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are candidates for heating the solar chromosphere, although it is still unclear which mode of the wave is dominant in heating. We perform two-dimensional radiative MHD simulation to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima

The heating of the chromosphere in internetwork regions remains one of the foremost open questions in solar physics. In the present study we tackle this old problem by using a very high spatial-resolution simulation of quiet-Sun conditions…

It is well-known that the global acoustic oscillations of the Sun's atmosphere can excite resonance modes within large-scale magnetic concentrations. These structures are conduits of energy between the different layers of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Berrilli

We present high-cadence observations and simulations of the solar photosphere, obtained using the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere imaging system and the MuRAM magneto-hydrodynamic code, respectively. Each dataset demonstrates a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , P. H. Keys , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

The propagation and dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves play a key role in transporting energy from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. Using high-resolution three-dimensional radiative MHD simulations, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Nitin Yadav , Apanba Khuman

We present observational constraints on the solar chromospheric heating contribution from acoustic waves with frequencies between 5 and 50 mHz. We utilize observations from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico complemented with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Momchil E. Molnar , Kevin P. Reardon , Steven R. Cranmer , Adam F. Kowalski , Yi Chai , Dale Gary

Using high-resolution numerical simulations we investigate the plasma heating driven by periodic two-fluid acoustic waves that originate at the bottom of the photosphere and propagate into the gravitationally stratified and partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 B. Kuźma , D. Wójcik , K. Murawski

Slow magnetoacoustic waves with a 3 minute period are upward-propagating waves traveling through the density-stratified umbral atmosphere. The decreasing density causes their amplitude to increase, developing into nonlinear waves through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , R. Sych , P. S. Rawat

Velocity oscillations in sunspot umbrae have been measured simultaneously in two spectral lines: the photospheric Silicon I 10827 A line and the chromospheric Helium I 10830 A multiplet. From the full Stokes inversion of temporal series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rebecca Centeno , Manuel Collados , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Waves are an integral part of the solar atmosphere, and their characteristics (e.g., dominant period, range of periods, power, and phase angle) change on a diverse spatio-temporal scale. It is well well-established observationally that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Pradeep Kayshap , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , Suresh Babu

Observing the excitation mechanisms of incompressible transverse waves is vital for determining how energy propagates through the lower solar atmosphere. We aim to show the connection between convectively driven photospheric flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. J. Morton , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. Shelyag , R. Erdélyi

We study the evolution of spectra of acoustic waves that are generated in the convection zone and propagate upward into the photosphere, where we compare the simulated acoustic spectra with the spectrum observed in an Fe I line. Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Theurer , P. Ulmschneider , W. Kalkofen

Aims: To study the heating of solar chromospheric magnetic and nonmagnetic regions by acoustic and magnetoacoustic waves, the deposited acoustic-energy flux derived from observations of strong chromospheric lines is compared with the total…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 V. Abbasvand , M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , P. Heinzel , W. Liu , L. Mravcová

Our knowledge of the heating mechanisms that are at work in the chromosphere of plage regions remains highly unconstrained from observational studies. The purpose of our study is to estimate the chromospheric heating terms from a plage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 R. Morosin , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , C. J. Díaz Baso , J. Leenaarts

3-minute oscillations in the chromosphere are attributed to both slow magnetoacoustic waves propagating from the photosphere, and to oscillations generated within the chromosphere itself at its natural frequency as a response to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-23 Laurel Farris , R. T. James McAteer

In this study, we consider chromospheric heating models for 55 Cancri in conjunction with observations. The theoretical models, previously discussed in Paper I, are self-consistent, nonlinear and time-dependent ab-initio computations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Cuntz , K. -P. Schröder , D. E. Fawzy , A. R. Ridden-Harper

Sunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of the spot. Umbral chromospheric oscillations exhibit significant differences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 T. Felipe

Magnetic waves are a relevant component in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Their significance has increased because of their potential as a remote diagnostic tool and their presumed contribution to plasma heating processes. We discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 I. Arregui

We examine the excitation of oscillations in the magnetic network of the Sun through the footpoint motion of photospheric magnetic flux tubes located in intergranular lanes. The motion is derived from a time series of high-resolution G band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. S. Hasan , W. Kalkofen , A. A. van Ballegooijen