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We introduce a new solar energetic particle (SEP) transport code that aims at studying the effects of different solar wind configurations on SEP events. We focus on the influence of varying solar wind velocities on the energy changes of…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 N. Wijsen , A. Angels , J. Pomoell , S. Poedts

The solar wind in the inner heliosphere has been observed by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to exhibit abundant wave activities. The cyclotron wave modes in the sense of ions or electrons are among the most crucial wave components. However, their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Jiansen He , Ying Wang , Xingyu Zhu , Die Duan , Daniel Verscharen , Guoqing Zhao

Polytropic models of stellar winds remain to be useful tools because they allow for a simple description of the energy balance of the expanding plasma without explicitly specifying potentially complex energy transport processes like, e.g.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 L. Westrich , B. Shergelashvili , H. Fichtner , V. N. Melnik

Velocity distribution functions (VDF) are an essential observable for studying kinetic and wave-particle processes in solar wind plasmas. To experimentally distinguish modes of heating, acceleration, and turbulence in the solar wind,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Srijan Bharati Das , Michael Terres

The Sun's open-closed flux boundary (OCB) separates closed and open magnetic field lines, and is the site for interchange magnetic reconnection processes thought to be linked to the origin of the slow solar wind (SSW). We analyze the global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Chloe P. Wilkins , David I. Pontin , Anthony R. Yeates , Spiro K. Antiochos , Hannah Schunker , Bishnu Lamichhane

\textbf{Purpose:} This paper addresses long-standing solar physics problems, namely, the heating of the solar chromosphere and the origin of the solar wind. Our aim is to reveal the related mechanisms behind chromospheric heating and plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , S. Poedts , A. K. Srivastava , L. H. S. Kadowaki

We present synthetic line profiles as predicted by the models of 2-D line- driven disk winds due to Proga, Stone & Drew. We compare the model line profiles with HST observations of the cataclysmic variable IX Vel. The model wind consists of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga , T. R. Kallman , J. E. Drew , L. E. Hartley

Remote and in-situ observations strongly imply that the slow solar wind consists of plasma from the hot, closed-field corona that is released onto open magnetic field lines. The Separatrix Web (S-Web) theory for the slow wind proposes that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 A. K. Higginson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , P. F. Wyper , T. H. Zurbuchen

The nature of solar wind turbulence in the dissipation range at scales much smaller than the large MHD scales remains under debate. Here a two-dimensional model based on the hybrid code abbreviated as A.I.K.E.F. is presented, which treats…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch , Uwe Motschmann , Joachim Müller

We calculate accurate solar models and report the detailed time dependences of important solar quantities. We use helioseismology to constrain the luminosity evolution of the sun and report the discovery of semi-convection in evolved solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John N. Bahcall , M. H. Pinsonneault , Sarbani Basu

This paper presents closed-form analytic solutions to two illustrative problems in solar physics that have been considered not solvable in this way previously. Both the outflow speed and the mass loss rate of the solar wind of plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven R. Cranmer

For the past 30+ years, the magnetic expansion factor ($f_s$) has been used in empirical relationships to predict solar wind speed ($v_{obs}$) at 1 AU, based on an inverse relationship between these two quantities. Coronal unipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Samantha Wallace , Charles N. Arge , Nicholeen M. Viall , Ylva Pihlstrom

The three-dimensional baroclinic quasigeostrophic flow model has been widely used to study basic mechanisms in oceanic flows and climate dynamics. In this paper, we consider this flow model under random wind forcing and time-periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jinqiao Duan , Bjorn Schmalfuss

Quantum fluid (or hydrodynamic) models provide an attractive alternative for the modeling and simulation of the electron dynamics in nano-scale objects. Compared to more standard approaches, such as density functional theory or phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Jérôme Hurst

We consider several systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws describing the dynamics of nonlinear waves in presence of phase transition phenomena. These models admit under-compressive shock waves which are not uniquely determined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Philippe G. LeFloch , Majid Mohammadian

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main drivers of disturbances in the solar heliosphere because they propagate and interact with the magnetic field of the solar wind. It is crucial to investigate the evolution of CMEs and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Tinatin Baratashvili , Emma Davies , Eva Weiler , Brigitte Schmieder , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts

Solar Orbiter provides unique capabilities to understand the heliosphere. In particular, it has made observations of the far-side of the Sun and provides unique information to improve space weather monitoring. We aim to quantify how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Barbara Perri , Adam Finley , Victor Réville , Susanna Parenti , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Éric Buchlin

In this article, we identify the 5-dimensional analogue of the finite energy foliations introduced by Hofer--Wysocki--Zehnder for the study of 3-dimensional Reeb flows, and show that these exist for the spatial circular restricted…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Agustin Moreno

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is providing an unprecedented view of the Sun's corona as it progressively dips closer into the solar atmosphere with each solar encounter. Each set of observations provides a unique opportunity to test and…

This work is a continuation of our previous articles (Yermolaev et al. in J. Geophys.Res. 120, 7094, 2015, Yermolaev et al. in Solar Phys. 292, 193, 2017), which describe the average temporal profiles of interplanetary plasma and field…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Yu. I. Yermolaev , I. G. Lodkina , M. Yu. Yermolaev