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Gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through a uniformly magnetized plasma interact directly with the magnetic field and excite magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves with both electromagnetic and matter components. We study this process for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Solar prominence models used so far in the analysis of MHD waves in such structures are quite elementary. In this work, we calculate numerically magnetohydrostatic models in two-dimensional configurations under the presence of gravity. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Terradas , R. Soler , A. J. Díaz , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

In this paper we present a numerical study of the time evolution of solar prominences embedded in sheared magnetic arcades. The prominence is represented by a density enhancement in a background stratified atmosphere and is connected to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Terradas , R. Soler , M. Luna , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Solar prominences, or solar filaments, are cool and dense plasma structures in the hot solar corona, whose formation mechanisms have remained a fundamental challenge in solar physics. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Yuhao Zhou

This present study deals with the dissipative instability that appears in a compressible partially ionised plasma slab embedded in a uniform magnetic field, modelling the state of the plasma in solar prominences. In the partially ionised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 J. F. Mather , I. Ballai , R. Erdelyi

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

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities can play an important role in the dynamics of the pulsar magnetosphere and can be responsible for the formation of various structures. We consider the instability caused by a gradient of the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vadim Urpin

In the context of the solar atmosphere, we re-examine the role of of neutral and ionized species in dissipating the ordered energy of intermediate-mode MHD waves into heat. We solve conservation equations for the hydrodynamics and for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Philip G. Judge

Su et al. 2012 proposed a new explanation for filament formation and eruption, where filament barbs are rotating magnetic structures driven by underlying vortices on the surface. Such structures have been noticed as tornado-like prominences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Su , Peter Gömöry , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Tongjiang Wang , Kamalam Vanninathan , Weiqun Gan , Youping Li

Compressible disturbances propagate in a plasma in the form of magnetoacoustic waves driven by both gas pressure and magnetic forces. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of ionized and neutral species are coupled due to ion-neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marc Carbonell , Jose Luis Ballester

The importance of the chromosphere in the mass and energy transport within the solar atmosphere is now widely recognised. This review discusses the physics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities in large-scale chromospheric…

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in magnetized astrophysical plasmas, and it radically changes a great variety of astrophysical processes. In this review, we give the concept of MHD turbulence and explain the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Elena Popova , Alexandre Lazarian

Alfv\'en waves are a particular class of magnetohydrodynamic waves relevant in many astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of Alfv\'en waves is affected by the interaction between ionized and neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Soler , M. Carbonell , J. L. Ballester , J. Terradas

The solar photosphere is a partially ionized medium with collisions between electrons, various metallic ions and neutral hydrogen playing an important role in the momentum and energy transport in the medium. Furthermore, the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Pandey , J. Vranjes , V. Krishan

Solar photosphere and chromosphere are composed of weakly ionized plasma for which collisional coupling decreases with height. This implies a breakdown of some hypotheses underlying magnetohydrodynamics at low altitudes and gives rise to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 Elena Khomenko

Ideal MHD provides an accurate description of low-frequency Alfv\'en waves in fully ionized plasmas. However, higher frequency waves in many plasmas of the solar atmosphere cannot be correctly described by ideal MHD and a more accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The MHD slow mode wave has application to coronal seismology, MHD turbulence, and the solar wind where it can be produced by parametric instabilities. We consider analytically how a drifting ion species (e.g. He$^{++}$) affects the linear…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Joseph V. Hollweg , Daniel Verscharen , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Weak turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in strongly magnetized plasma is studied when the thermal pressure is less than the magnetic field pressure. In this situation the main nonlinear mechanism is the resonance scattering of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evgenii A. Kuznetsov

One of the most striking structures in the solar atmosphere are prominences, predominantly coronal structures, with thermodynamic conditions that vary from chromospheric internally to the corona that surrounds them. These structures play an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 V. Jerčić , B. Popescu Braileanu , R. Keppens

The weakly non-linear interaction of slow magnetoacoustic and torsional Alfven waves propagating along an unperturbed poloidal magnetic field in a stellar interior is studied in the high plasma beta limit. It is shown that slow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. V. Zaqarashvili , G. Belvedere