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Generation of Alfv\'en and slow magneto-acoustic waves in weakly ionized atmospheres by excitation of the charges-only component of the two fluid (charges and neutrals) plasma is shown to be more or less efficient depending on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Paul S. Cally

We solve numerically ideal, 2.5D, MHD equations in Cartesian coordinates, with a plasma beta of 0.0001 starting from the equilibrium that mimics a footpoint of a large curvature radius solar coronal loop or a polar region plume. On top of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

Angular momentum coupling between a rotating magnetized plasma and torsional Alfv\'en waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is examined. It is not only demonstrated that rotation is the source of Fresnel-Faraday rotation - or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 J. -M. Rax , R. Gueroult , N. J. Fisch

M dwarf's atmosphere and wind is expected to be highly magnetized. The nonlinear propagation of Alfv\'en wave could play a key role in both heating the stellar atmosphere and driving the stellar wind. Along this Alfv\'en wave scenario, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

Resonant three-wave coupling is an important mechanism via which waves interact in a nonlinear medium. When the medium is a magnetized warm-fluid plasma, a previously-unknown formula for the coupling coefficients is derived by solving the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yuan Shi

Alfv\'en waves may be generated via mode conversion from fast magneto-acoustic waves near their reflection level in the solar atmosphere, with implications both for coronal oscillations and for active region helio-seismology. In active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul S. Cally , Shelley C. Hansen

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

We present results from three-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations of Alfv\'enic turbulence in a high-beta, collisionless plasma. The key feature of such turbulence is the interplay between local wave--wave interactions between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-03 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Alexander A. Schekochihin

The nonlinear three-wave interaction process at the heart of the parametric decay process is studied by launching counter-propagating Alfv\'en waves from antennas placed at either end of the Large Plasma Device (LAPD). A resonance in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 S. Dorfman , T. A. Carter

In the Earth auroral zone, the electron acceleration by Alfv\'en waves is sometimes a precursor of the non-propagating acceleration structures. In order to investigate how Alfv\'en waves could generate non-propagating electric fields, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Fabrice Mottez

We perform magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the propagation of Alfven wave in magnetic chromosphere. We use the 1.5-dimensional expanding flux tube geometry setting and transverse perturbation at the bottom to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama

We theoretically investigate the interplay between magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and shear flows in a partially ionized solar plasma, focusing on the energy exchange mediated by the flow and the transformation between wave modes. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Miquel Cantallops , Roberto Soler

A Hamiltonian two-field gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) in a magnetized electron-proton plasma, retaining ion finite-Larmor-radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations, is used to study the inverse cascades…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 George Miloshevich , Dimitri Laveder , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

Magnetic energy around compact objects often dominates over plasma rest mass, and its dissipation can power the object luminosity. We describe a dissipation mechanism which works faster than magnetic reconnection. The mechanism involves two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Xinyu Li , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lorenzo Sironi

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

We solve numerically the ideal MHD equations with an external gravitational field in 2D in order to study the effects of impulsively generated linear and non-linear Alfv\'en waves into isolated solar arcades and coronal funnels. We analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , F. S. Guzman

Ion-neutral collisions may lead to the damping of Alfven waves in chromospheric and prominence plasmas. Neutral helium atoms enhance the damping in certain temperature interval, where the ratio of neutral helium and neutral hydrogen atoms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. L. Khodachenko , R. Soler

Rockets and satellites have previously observed small-scale Alfv\'en waves inside large-scale downward field-aligned currents and numerical simulations have associated their formation with self-consistent magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Alexander J. B. Russell , Andrew N. Wright

Analytical expressions for the dispersion relations and polarizations of low-frequency waves in magnetized plasmas based on two-fluid model are obtained. The properties of waves propagating at different angles (to the ambient magnetic field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Jinsong Zhao

There is observational evidence of the presence of small-amplitude transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves with a wide range of frequencies in the threads of solar prominences. It is believed that the waves are driven at the photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Llorenc Melis , Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester