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We present a novel method to evaluate the Alfven speed and the magnetic field strength along the streamer plasma sheet in the outer corona. The method is based on recent observations of streamer waves, which are regarded as the fast kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. Chen , S. W. Feng , B. Li , H. Q. Song , L. D. Xia , X. L. Kong , Xing Li

We establish a spherically symmetric model of solar atmosphere, which consists of the whole chromosphere and low corona below the $1.25$ solar radius. It is a hydrodynamic model with heating in the chromosphere through an artificial energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Li Xue , Cheng-Liang Jiao , Li-Xin Zhang

Coronal holes are the coolest and darkest regions of the solar atmosphere, as observed both on the solar disk and above the solar limb. Coronal holes are associated with rapidly expanding open magnetic fields and the acceleration of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-21 D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta , L. Teriaca

The discovery of ubiquitous low-frequency (3-5mHz) Alfvenic waves in the solar chromosphere (with Hinode/SOT), and corona (with CoMP and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO) has provided some insight into the non-thermal energy content of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Scott W. McIntosh , Bart De Pontieu

Using the Hinode/EIS 2$"$ spectroscopic observations, we study the intensity, velocity, and FWHM variations of the strongest Fe XII 195.12 \AA\ line along the jet to find the signature of Alfv\'en waves. We simulate numerically the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Jelínek , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski , P. Kayshap , B. N. Dwivedi

Spicules are thin, elongated jet-like features seen in observations of the solar atmosphere, at the interface between the solar photosphere and the corona. These features exhibit highly complex dynamics and are a necessary connecting link…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Sankalp Srivastava , Piyali Chatterjee , Sahel Dey , Robertus Erdélyi

The heating of the solar corona and solar wind, through suprathermal particles and kinetic Alfv\'en waves within the 0 - 10 $R_{\rm Sun}$ range, has been a subject of great interest for many decades. This study investigates the acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 S. Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , G. Li , Yeimy J. Rivera

Using data obtained by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode, we have per- formed a survey of obvious and persistent (without significant damping) Doppler shift oscillations in the corona. We have found mainly two types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Bart De Pontieu , Davina E. Innes , Hardi Peter

The solar wind is found by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to be abundant with Alfv\'enic velocity spikes and magnetic field kinks. Temperature enhancement is another remarkable feature associated with the Alfv\'enic spikes. How the prototype of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jiansen He , Xingyu Zhu , Liping Yang , Chuanpeng Hou , Die Duan , Lei Zhang , Ying Wang

Spicules have often been proposed as substantial contributors toward the mass and energy balance of the solar corona. While their transition region (TR) counterpart has unequivocally been established over the past decade, the observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Souvik Bose , Jayant Joshi , Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu

Macrospicules are relatively large spicule-like formations found mainly over the polar coronal holes when observing in the transition region spectral lines. In this study, we took advantage of the two short series of observations in the He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 I. P. Loboda , S. A. Bogachev

Extreme-ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory often show looplike fine structure to be present where no minority-polarity flux is visible in magnetograms, suggesting that the rate of ephemeral region (ER) emergence inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. -M. Wang

Electromagnetic wave scattering off density inhomogeneities in the solar corona is an important process which determines both the apparent source size and the time profile of radio bursts observed at 1 AU. Here we model the scattering…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 N. H. Bian , A. G. Emslie , E. P. Kontar

Observations have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves over a large frequency range are ubiquitous in solar prominences. The waves are probably driven by photospheric motions and may transport energy up to prominences suspended in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Quasi-periodic propagating disturbances (PDs) are ubiquitous in polar coronal holes on the Sun. It remains unclear as to what generates PDs. In this work, we investigate how the PDs are generated in the solar atmosphere by analyzing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Fangran Jiao , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Xing Li , Kalugodu Chandrashekhar , Chaozhou Mou , Hui Fu

Aims. We study the coherency of solar spicules intensity oscillations with increasing height above the solar limb in quiet Sun, active Sun and active region using observations from HINODE/SOT. Existence of coherency up to transition region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 E. Tavabi , A. Ajabshirizadeh , A. R. Ahangarzadeh Maralani , S. Zeighami

The aim here is to model the standing torsional oscillations in solar spicules in the presence of density stratification, magnetic field expansion, and steady flows. By implementing cylindrical geometry, the eigenfrequencies,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 H. Ebadi , S. Shahmorad , S. Vasheghani Farahani

Context. We diagnose the properties of the plume and interplume regions in a polar coronal hole and the role of waves in the acceleration of the solar wind. Aims. We attempt to detect whether Alfven waves are present in the polar coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Banerjee , D. Perez-Suarez , J. G. Doyle

Using numerical simulations, we investigate the onset and suppression of parametric decay instability (PDI) in the solar wind, focusing on the suppression effect by the wind acceleration and expansion. We also discuss the role of PDI in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Takeru K. Suzuki

High-energy particles may be accelerated widely in stellar coronae; probably by the same processes we find in the Sun. Here, we have learned of two physical mechanisms that dominate the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEPs). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Donald V. Reames