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The proton temperature anisotropy in the solar wind is known to be constrained by the theoretical thresholds for pressure anisotropy-driven instabilities. Here we use approximately 1 million independent measurements of gyroscale magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. D. Bale , J. C. Kasper , G. G. Howes , E. Quataert , C. Salem , D. Sundkvist

Astrophysical plasmas have the remarkable ability to preserve magnetic topology, which inevitably gives rise to the accumulation of magnetic energy within stressed regions including current sheets. This stored energy is often released…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Hantao Ji , William Daughton , Jonathan Jara-Almonte , Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Jongsoo Yoo

We present a method to characterize the spectral transfers of magnetic energy between scales in simulations of stellar convective dynamos. The full triadic transfer functions are computed thanks to analytical coupling relations of spherical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-18 A. Strugarek , A. S. Brun , S. Mathis , Y. Sarazin

We review a recent letter published in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{116}$, 161804 (2016) of which the main argument is that the mode dependent magnetic form factors at axion haloscopes depend on the position of the cavity inside the solenoid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-14 B. R. Ko , H. Themann , W. Jang , J. Choi , D. Kim , M. J. Lee , J. Lee , E. Won , Y. K. Semertzidis

In the recent years, global coronal models have experienced an ongoing increase in popularity as tools for forecasting solar weather. Within the domain of up to 21.5Rsun, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to resolve the coronal structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Michaela Brchnelova , Błażej Kuźma , Barbara Perri , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

At kinetic scales in the solar wind, instabilities transfer energy from particles to fluctuations in the electromagnetic fields while restoring plasma conditions towards thermodynamic equilibrium. We investigate the interplay between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Simon Opie , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher H. K. Chen , Christopher J. Owen , Philip A. Isenberg

Magnetic reconnection, a fundamentally important process in many aspects of astrophysics, is believed to be initiated by the tearing instability of an electric current sheet, a region where magnetic field abruptly changes direction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 James Leake , Lars Daldorff , James Klimchuk

Space-weather and disturbances in the heliosphere are manifestations of the solar magnetic field, which is solely driven by the interior dynamo, and constraining the solar interior magnetic field and its oscillatory behavior is one of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Soumyadeep Chatterjee , Gopal Hazra

An outstanding gap in our knowledge of the solar wind is the relationship between switchbacks and solar wind turbulence. Switchbacks are large fluctuations, even reversals, of the background magnetic field embedded in the solar wind flow.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Peter Tatum , David Malaspina , Alexandros Chasapis , Benjamin Short

The coronal magnetic field is the prime driver behind many as-yet unsolved mysteries: solar eruptions, coronal heating, and the solar wind, to name a few. It is, however, still poorly observed and understood. We highlight key questions…

The correlation scale and the Taylor scale are evaluated for interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations from two-point, single time correlation function using the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), Wind, and Cluster spacecraft data during…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 G. Zhou , H. -Q. He , W. Wan

In solving the solar coronal heating problem, it is crucial to comprehend the mechanisms by which energy is conveyed from the photosphere to the corona. Recently, magnetic tornadoes, characterized as coherent, rotating magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hidetaka Kuniyoshi , Munehito Shoda , Haruhisa Iijima , Takaaki Yokoyama

The observed splittings of solar oscillation frequencies can be employed to separate the effects of internal solar rotation and to estimate the contribution from a large-scale magnetic field or any latitude-dependent thermal perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , M. J. Thompson

The distribution and evolution of the magnetic field at the solar poles through a solar cycle is an important parameter in understanding the solar dynamo. The accurate observations of the polar magnetic flux is very challenging from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Sanjay Gosain , Han Uitenbroek

Solar flares are powerful radiations occuring in the Sun's atmosphere. They are powered by magnetic reconnection, a phemonenon that can convert magnetic energy into other forms of energy such as heat and kinetic energy, and it is believed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Miho Janvier

Solar flares are driven by release of free magnetic energy and often associated with restructurization of the magnetic field topology. Yet, observations of evolving magnetic field in the flaring volume are limited to very few cases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Gregory D. Fleishman , Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu

We observe the anisotropy of the power spectral tensor of magnetic field fluctuations in the fast solar wind for the first time. In heliocentric RTN coordinates the power in each element of the tensor has a unique dependence on the angle…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert T. Wicks , Miriam A. Forman , Timothy S. Horbury , Sean Oughton

As a large-scale motion on the Sun, the meridional flow plays an important role in determining magnetic structure and strength and solar cycle. However, the meridional flow near the solar poles is still unclear. The Hinode observations show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Shuhong Yang , Jie Jiang , Zifan Wang , Yijun Hou , Chunlan Jin , Qiao Song , Yukun Luo , Ting Li , Jun Zhang , Yuzong Zhang , Guiping Zhou , Yuanyong Deng , Jingxiu Wang

According to the scheme of action of the solar dynamo, the poloidal magnetic field can be considered a source of production of the toroidal magnetic field by the solar differential rotation. From the polar magnetic field proxies, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-13 V. N. Obridko , D. D. Sokoloff , V. V. Pipin , A. S. Shibalova , I. M. Livshits

The magnetic disturbances are associated with electric currents as it is well checked at laboratory room scales and described by the Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic field. The analysis of spacecraft observations for more than a…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene Savov