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Finding low-mass planets around solar-type stars requires to understand the physical variability of the host star, which greatly exceeds the planet-induced radial-velocity modulation. This project aims at analyzing - observationally and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Dainis Dravins , Hans-Günter Ludwig

Broad-band images in the Ca II H line, from the BFI instrument on the Hinode spacecraft, show emission from spicules emerging from and visible right down to the observed limb. Surprisingly, little absorption of spicule light is seen along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Philip G. Judge , Mats Carlsson

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

Strong lensing by intervening galaxies can produce multiple images of gravitational waves from sources at cosmological distances. These images acquire additional phase-shifts as the over-focused wavefront passes through itself along the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-17 Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Solar filaments, also called solar prominences when appearing above the solar limb, are cold, dense materials suspended in the hot tenuous solar corona, consisting of numerous long, fibril-like threads. These threads are the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Y. H. Zhou , P. F. Chen , J. Hong , C. Fang

In this paper we show that the phase mixing of continuum Alfv\'{e}n waves and/or continuum slow waves in magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere as, e.g., coronal arcades, can create the illusion of wave propagation across the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 T. Kaneko , M. Goossens , R. Soler , J. Terradas , T. Van Doorsselaere , T. Yokoyama , A. N. Wright

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

Solar flares are driven by the release of magnetic energy from reconnection events in the solar corona, whereafter energy is transported to the chromosphere, heating the plasma and causing the characteristic radiative losses. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 Jeffrey W. Reep , Harry P. Warren , James E. Leake , Lucas A. Tarr , Alexander J. B. Russell , Graham S. Kerr , Hugh S. Hudson

Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves are one of the large-scale phenomena on the Sun. They are defined as large propagating fronts in the low corona with speeds ranging from a few tens km/s to a multiple of 1000 km/s. They are often associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Ramesh Chandra , Pooja Devi , P. F. Chen , Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi , Bhuwan Joshi , Arun Kumar Awasthi

Seismology of stars provides insight into the physical mechanisms taking place in their interior, with modes of oscillation probing different layers. Low-amplitude acoustic oscillations excited by turbulent convection were detected four…

Solar spicules are the fundamental magnetic structures in the chromosphere and considered to play a key role in channelling the chromosphere and corona. Recently, it was suggested by De Pontieu et al. that there were two types of spicules…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-17 Y. Z. Zhang , K. Shibata , J. X. Wang , X. J. Mao , T. Matsumoto , Y. Liu , J. T. Su

Oscillations of coronal loops in the Sun have been reported in both imaging and spectral observations at the onset of flares. Images reveal transverse oscillations, whereas spectra detect line-of-sight velocity or Doppler-shift…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danica Tothova , Davina Innes , Guillermo Stenborg

Recent high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations have generated renewed interest in spicules' role in explaining the hot corona. Some studies suggest that some spicules, often classified as type II, may provide significant mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Shanwlee Sow Mondal , James A. Klimchuk , Aveek Sarkar

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves, spectacular horizontally propagating disturbances in the low solar corona, always trigger horizontal secondary waves (SWs) when they encounter ambient coronal structure. We present a first example of upward…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Ruisheng Zheng , Yao Chen , Shiwei Feng , Bing Wang , Hongqiang Song

Observations with the 1-m Swedish Solar Telescope of the flows seen in penumbral filaments are presented. Time sequences of bright filaments show overturning motions strikingly similar to those seen along the walls of small isolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-22 H. C. Spruit , G. B. Scharmer , M. G. Löfdahl

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

One of the most important early results from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is the ubiquitous presence of magnetic switchbacks, whose origin is under debate. Using a three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of the equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-17 Munehito Shoda , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Steven R. Cranmer

The nature of subproton scale fluctuations in the solar wind is an open question, partly because two similar types of electromagnetic turbulence can occur: kinetic Alfven turbulence and whistler turbulence. These two possibilities, however,…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 C. H. K. Chen , S. Boldyrev , Q. Xia , J. C. Perez

Alfven waves and ion-cyclotron absorption of high-frequency waves are frequently brought into models devoted to coronal heating and fast solar-wind acceleration. Signatures of ion-cyclotron resonance have already been observed in situ in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Dolla , J. Solomon

We present a mechanism for the formation of the low frequency 1/f magnetic spectrum based on numerical solutions of a shell reduced-MHD model of the turbulent dynamics inside the sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind. We assign reasonably realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Verdini , R. Grappin , R. Pinto , M. Velli