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The global role of Chapman's hydrostatic solar wind mechanism in Parker's hydrodynamic solar wind model is investigated by using the de Laval nozzle analogy for the generation of flow acceleration in the latter model. The action of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

The Sun's outer atmosphere is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees, and solar plasma flows out into interplanetary space at supersonic speeds. This paper reviews our current understanding of these interrelated problems: coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Steven R. Cranmer , Sarah E. Gibson , Pete Riley

We present a new 3d self-consistent two-component (plasma and neutral hydrogen) model of the solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium (LISM). This model (K-MHD) combines the MHD treatment of the solar wind and the ionized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Fathallah Alouani-Bibi , Merav Opher , Dimitry Alexashov , Vladislav Izmodenov , Gabor Toth

The solar wind is a magnetized plasma and as such exhibits collective plasma behavior associated with its characteristic spatial and temporal scales. The characteristic length scales include the size of the heliosphere, the collisional mean…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Daniel Verscharen , Kristopher G. Klein , Bennett A. Maruca

We resolve the paradox that although magnetic collimation of an isotropic solar wind results in an enhancement of its proton flux along the polar directions, several observations indicate a wind proton flux peaked at the equator. To that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Tsinganos , S. Bogovalov

The solar wind is a structured and complex system, in which the fields vary strongly over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. As an example, the turbulent activity in the wind affects the evolution in the heliosphere of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. E. Ruiz , S. Dasso , W. H. Matthaeus , J. M. Weygand

The development of the Zeeman-Doppler Imagine (ZDI) technique has provided synoptic observations of surface magnetic fields of low-mass stars. This led the Stellar Astrophysics community to adopt modeling techniques that have been used in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ofer Cohen

The solar wind is a dynamic plasma outflow that shapes heliospheric conditions and drives space weather. Identifying its large-scale phenomena is crucial, yet the increasing volume of high-cadence Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations poses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Valmir P Moraes Filho , Daniela Martin , Jasmine R. Kobayashi , Connor O'Brien , Jinsu Hong , Evangelia Samara , Joseph Gallego

Given a known radial magnetic field distribution on the Sun's photospheric surface, there exist well-established methods for computing a potential magnetic field in the corona above. Such potential fields are routinely used as input to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

Using the newly developed code \emph{Menura}, we present the first global picture of the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a planetary obstacle in our solar system, namely a comet. This first publication aims at shedding lights…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Behar Etienne , Henri Pierre

We present a novel global 3-D coronal MHD model called COCONUT, polytropic in its first stage and based on a time-implicit backward Euler scheme. Our model boosts run-time performance in comparison with contemporary MHD-solvers based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Barbara Perri , Peter Leitner , Michaela Brchnelova , Tinatin Baratashvili , Blazej Kuzma , Fan Zhang , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

One of the key challenges in solar and heliospheric physics is to understand the acceleration of the solar wind. As a super-sonic, super-Alfv\'enic plasma flow, the solar wind carries mass, momentum, energy, and angular momentum from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel Verscharen , Stuart D. Bale , Marco Velli

Aims: Our goal is to develop methodologies to seamlessly track transient solar wind flows viewed by coronagraphs or heliospheric imagers from rapidly varying viewpoints. Methods: We constructed maps of intensity versus time and elongation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 A. Nindos , S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , P. C. Liewer , P. Penteado , J. R. Hall

Context: During solar flares a large number of charged particles are accelerated to high energies, but the exact mechanism responsible for this is, so far, still unclear. Acceleration in collapsing magnetic traps is one of the mechanisms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Keith J. Grady , Thomas Neukirch

For the first time, we explore the tightly coupled interior-magnetosphere system of Mercury by employing a three-dimensional ten-moment multifluid model. This novel fluid model incorporates the non-ideal effects including the Hall effect,…

To model the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere well enough for high-quality forecasting, it is essential to accurately estimate the global solar magnetic field used as inner boundary condition in solar wind models. However, our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Stephan G. Heinemann , Dan Yang , Shaela I. Jones , Jens Pomoell , Eleanna Asvestari , Carl J. Henney , Charles N. Arge , Laurent Gizon

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 describe, test, and apply a technique to incorporate full-sun, surface flux evolution into an MHD model of the global solar corona. Requiring only maps of the evolving surface flux, our method is similar to that of Lionello et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Emily I. Mason , Jon A. Linker , Ronald M. Caplan , Pete Riley , Viacheslav S. Titov , Marc L. DeRosa

{Observations of the solar atmosphere have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves are ubiquitous throughout. Improvements in instrumentation and the techniques used for measurement of the waves now enables subtleties of competing theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 R. J. Morton , K. Mooroogen

Emanating from the base of the Sun's corona, the solar wind fills the interplanetary medium with a magnetized stream of charged particles whose interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere has space-weather consequences such as geomagnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Vishal Upendran , M. C. M Cheung , Shravan Hanasoge , Ganapathi Krishnamurthi