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Spicules are the most ubuiquitous type of jets in the solar atmosphere. The advent of high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and ground-based observatories has revealed the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Bart De Pontieu , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Georgios Chintzoglou

We solve the problem of propagation and dissipation of Alfvenic turbulence in a model solar atmosphere consisting of a static photosphere and chromosphere, transition region, and open corona and solar wind, using a phenomenological model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Verdini , M. Velli

Waves are important for the heating of the solar corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. We have examined a long spectral time series of a southern coronal hole observed on the 25th February 1997, with the SUMER spectrometer on-board…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. R. Gupta , E. O'Shea , D. Banerjee , M. Popescu , J. G. Doyle

Corrected analytical solutions describing the enhanced phase mixing of Alfven waves propagating in divergent stratified coronal structures are presented. These show that the enhanced phase mixing mechanism can dissipate Alfven waves at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-22 P. D. Smith , D. Tsiklauri , M. S. Ruderman

We perform a 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to understand a comprehensive view of the formation of spicule-like cool jets due to initial transverse velocity pulses akin to Alfv\'en pulses in the solar chromosphere. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 B. Singh , A. K. Srivastava , K. Sharma , S. K. Mishra , B. N. Dwivedi

We have developed a simulation model of particle acceleration in coronal shock waves. The model is based on a Monte Carlo method, where particles are traced in prescribed large-scale electromagnetic fields utilizing the guiding center…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-19 Markus Battarbee , Timo Laitinen , Rami Vainio , Neus Agueda

We show that the coronal heating and the fast solar wind acceleration in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere, by performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We report observations of solar spicules at millimeter wavelengths (mm-$\lambda$) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These are supplemented by observations in optical (O), ultraviolet (UV) and extreme ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 T. S. Bastian , C. Alissandrakis , A. Nindos , M. Shimojo , S. M. White

There have been ubiquitous observations of wave-like motions in the solar atmosphere for decades. Recent improvements to space- and ground-based observatories have allowed the focus to shift to smaller magnetic structures on the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-21 N. Freij , E. M. Scullion , C. J. Nelson , S. Mumford , S. Wedemeyer , R. Erdélyi

Waves are important for the heating of the solar corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. We have examined a long spectral time series of a northern coronal hole observed on the 20th October 1996, with the SUMER spectrometer onboard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 G. R. Gupta , E. O'Shea , D. Banerjee , M. Popescu , J. G. Doyle

We study the propagation and transmission of Alfven waves in the context of cylindrical geometry. This approximates the polar cap region of aligned pulsar with strong magnetic fields. Non-propagating region appears in the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasufumi Kojima , Taishi Okita

We present a radiative magneto-hydrodynamic simulation set-up using the PENCIL CODE to study the generation, propagation and dissipation of Alfv\'en waves in the solar atmosphere which includes a convective layer, photosphere below and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Piyali Chatterjee

Alfv\'enic waves are considered a key contributor to the energy flux that powers the Sun's corona, with theoretical models demonstrating their potential to explain coronal EUV and X-ray emission and the acceleration of the solar wind.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 R. J. Morton , R. Soler

Probing the solar corona is crucial to study the coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. However, the transient and inhomogeneous solar wind flows carry large-amplitude inherent Alfven waves and turbulence, which make detection more…

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated Alfv\'en waves in an isolated solar arcade, which is gravitationally stratified and magnetically confined. We study numerically the propagation of Alfv\'en waves along such magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chmielewski , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava

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 present a comprehensive model of the global properties of Alfven waves in the solar atmosphere and fast solar wind. Linear non-WKB wave transport equations are solved from the photosphere to 4 AU, and for wave periods ranging from 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. R. Cranmer , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

Radio signals propagating via the solar corona and solar wind are significantly affected by compressive waves, impacting properties of solar bursts as well as sources viewed through the turbulent solar atmosphere. While static fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Francesco Azzollini , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Eduard P. Kontar

Propagating (intensity) disturbances (PDs) are well reported in observations of coronal loops and polar plumes in addition to recent links with co-temporal spicule activity in the solar atmosphere. However, despite being reported in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Samuel Skirvin , Tanmoy Samanta , Tom Van Doorsselaere