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Although the solar wind flows primarily outward from the Sun to interplanetary space, there are times when small-scale plasma inflows are observed. Inward-propagating density fluctuations in polar coronal holes were detected by the COR2…

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The coupling of Jupiter's magnetosphere and ionosphere plays a vital role in creating its auroral emissions. The strength of these emissions is dependent on the difference in speed of the rotational flows within Jupiter's high-latitude…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. N. Yates , N. Achilleos , P. Guio

A localized perturbation of a magnetic flux tube produces a pair of wave trains that propagate in opposite directions along the tube. These wave packets disperse as they propagate, where the extent of dispersion depends on the physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 R. Oliver , M. S. Ruderman , J. Terradas

Slow magnetoacoustic waves in a static background provide a seismological tool to probe the solar atmosphere in the analytic frame. By analyzing the spatiotemporal variation of the electron number density of plume structure in coronal holes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Il-Hyun Cho , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yong-Jae Moon , Jin-Yi Lee , Dae Jung Yu , Kyung-Suk Cho , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Harim Lee

The saturation of ion cyclotron Alfven turbulence excited by beam particles is investigated using resonance broadening theory. The stochastic scattering which decorrelates particles, includes both random acceleration by electric fields and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. V. Medvedev , P. H. Diamond

In astronomical environments, the high-temperature emission of plasma mainly depends on ion charge states, which requires accurate analysis of the ionization and recombination processes. For various phenomena involving energetic particles,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Yuan-Kuen Ko , John C. Raymond , Fan Guo , Vanessa Polito , Viviane Pierrard

Using a kinetic description of a homogeneous magnetized dusty plasma with Maxwellian distribution of electrons and protons and dust particles charged by inelastic collisions and by photoionization, we analyse the dispersion relation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 L. B. De Toni , R. Gaelzer

During solar flares a large amount of electrons with energies greater than 20 keV is generated with a production rate of typically $10^{36}$ s$^{-1}$. A part of them is able to propagate along open magnetic field lines through the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 F. Breitling , G. Mann , C. Vocks

Empirical solar wind speed models play an important role in enabling space weather forecasting with low computational cost. Among these, one model called WS model is based on the asymptotic expansion factor. However, it is known that it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Kyogo Tokoro , Munehito Shoda , Shinsuke Imada

The solar atmosphere is magnetically structured and highly dynamic. Owing to the dynamic nature of the regions in which the magnetic structures exist, waves can be excited in them. Numerical investigations of wave propagation in small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Vigeesh , O. Steiner , S. S. Hasan

The paper studies the drift instability in Kappa-distributed inhomogeneous plasmas. Weak inhomogeneity and local approximation are assumed. The linear dispersion relation is expressed in a novel integral representation that involves the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Ran Guo

Due to their high intensity of emission in the O VI 1031.9 and 1037.6A lines, even small sunspots on the solar disk can strongly influence the intensity of the radiative scattering component of O VI lines in the corona. Observations of O VI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Morgan , Shadia Rifai Habbal

Previous treatments of ambipolar diffusion in star-forming molecular clouds do not consider the effects of fluctuations in the fluid fields about their mean values. This paper generalizes the ambipolar diffusion problem in molecular cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marco Fatuzzo , Fred C. Adams

The interdiffusion of a solvent into a polymer melt has been studied using large scale molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation techniques. The solvent concentration profile and weight gain by the polymer have been measured as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Mesfin Tsige , Gary S. Grest

We study the propagation of waves from the photosphere to the chromosphere of sunspots. From time series of cospatial Ca II H (including its line blends) intensity spectra and polarimetric spectra of Si I 1082.7 nm and He I 1083.0 nm we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Felipe , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , C. Beck

The Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) contains clouds which consist of partially-ionized plasma. These clouds can be effectively diagnosed via high resolution optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of the absorption lines they form in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

The lower solar atmosphere consists of partially ionized turbulent plasmas harbouring velocity field, magnetic field and current density fluctuations. The correlations amongst these small scale fluctuations give rise to large scale flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-23 V. Krishan , S. Masuda

A beam of super-thermal, hot electrons was injected into maxwellian plasma with a density gradient along a magnetic field line. 1.5D particle-in-cell simulations were carried out which established that the EM emission is produced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-07 Roman Pechhacker , David Tsiklauri

Pseudoheating of ions in the presence of Alfv\'en waves is studied. We show that this process can be explained by $E\times B$ drift. The analytic solution obtained in this paper are quantitatively in accordance with previous results. Our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Chuanfei Dong , Nagendra Singh

Pickup ion distributions vary substantially on a variety of time scales, although their sources may be relatively steady. This complicates their use as probes of the heliospheric and local interstellar particle populations. Interstellar He+…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukas Saul , Eberhard Moebius , Charles W. Smith