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Kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are frequently observed in various magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere. They may contribute significantly to coronal heating and could be used as a tool to diagnose the solar plasma. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ding Yuan , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The origin of the Moreton wave observed in the chromosphere and the EIT wave observed in the corona during the eruption remains being an active research subject for a while. We investigate numerically in this work the evolutionary features…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Hongjuan Wang , Chengcai Shen , Jun Lin

A possible key element for large-scale energy release in the solar corona is an MHD kink instability in a single twisted magnetic flux tube. An initial helical current sheet fragments in a turbulent way into smaller-scale sheets, similarly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 G. Cozzo , J. Reid , P. Pagano , F. Reale , A. W. Hood

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

Oscillations in coronal loops are usually interpreted in terms of uncoupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Examples of these waves are standing transverse motions, interpreted as the kink MHD modes, and propagating slow modes, commonly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Terradas , J. Andries , E. Verwichte

A set of 23 observations of coronal jet events that occurred in coronal bright points has been analyzed. The focus was on the temporal evolution of the mean brightness before and during coronal jet events. In the absolute majority of the…

In recent years, coronal loops have been the focus of studies related to the damping of different magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) surface waves and their connection with coronal seismology and wave heating. For a better understanding of wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Guo

Recent high resolution AIA/SDO images show evidence of the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) expand in the ambient corona. A large-scale magnetic field mostly tangential to the interface is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Daniel O. Gomez , Edward E. DeLuca , Pablo D. Mininni

We present a series of numerical simulations aimed at understanding the nature and origin of turbulence in coronal loops in the framework of the Parker model for coronal heating. A coronal loop is studied via reduced magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi

Through three-dimensional MHD simulations, we have uncovered a kind of fast coronal wave originating from both ends of a current sheet (CS) during a solar eruption. These waves are observed to appear near the top and bottom ends of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Jialiang Hu , Xiaozhou Zhao , Guiping Zhou , Yuhao Chen , Chunlan Jin , Mijie Shi , Guanchong Cheng , Xiaoxia Yu , Jing Ye , Xinping Zhou , Hanxian Fang

The nature of coronal wave fronts is deeply debated. They are observed in several wavelength bandpasses in spectra, and are frequently interpreted as magnetosonic waves propagating in the lower solar atmosphere. However, they can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cecile Delannee , Guy Artzner , Brigitte Schmieder , Susanna Parenti

We present a model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the extended solar corona that contains the effects of collisionless dissipation and anisotropic particle heating. Measurements made by UVCS/SOHO have revived interest in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. R. Cranmer , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Interactions between global coronal waves (CWs) and coronal holes (CHs) reveal many interesting features of reflected waves and coronal hole boundaries (CHB) but have fairly been studied so far. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 I. Piantschitsch , J. Terradas , E. Soubrie , S. G. Heinemann , S. J. Hofmeister , R. Soler , M. Temmer

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated magnetic swirls in an isolated flux tube which is rooted in the solar photosphere. These swirls are triggered by an initial pulse in a horizontal component of the velocity. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 K. Murawski , P. Kayshap , A. K. Srivastava , D. J. Pascoe , P. Jelínek , B. Kuźma , V. Fedun

Quasi-periodic disturbances of emission-line parameters are frequently observed in the corona. These disturbances propagate upward along the magnetic field with speeds $\sim100~\rm{km~s}^{-1}$. This phenomenon has been interpreted as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Wenzhi Ruan , Jiansen He , Lei Zhang , Christian Vocks , Eckart Marsch , Chuanyi Tu , Hardi Peter , Linghua Wang

We present a numerical study of an idealized magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) configuration consisting of a planar wake flow embedded into a three-dimensional (3D) sheared magnetic field. Our simulations investigate the possibility for in-situ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. Zaliznyak , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

We present an analysis of neutrino-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities in a rotating magnetoplasma with weak neutrino interactions. We show, for the first time, that neutrino-driven shear Alfv{\'e}n and oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jyoti Turi , Amar P. Misra

Rapidly decaying long-period oscillations often occur in hot coronal loops of active regions associated with small (or micro-) flares. This kind of wave activity was first discovered with the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer from Doppler velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Ding Yuan , Fabio Reale , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Abhishek K. Srivastava

This paper reviews our growing understanding of the physics behind coronal heating (in open-field regions) and the acceleration of the solar wind. Many new insights have come from the last solar cycle's worth of observations and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Steven R. Cranmer , John L. Kohl , Mari Paz Miralles , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

New study confirms conclusions made in [M. Eselevich, and V. Eselevich, 2008]; according to it, there is a disturbed region expended along the CME propagation direction in front of a coronal mass ejection whose velocity $u$ is lower than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M Eselevich