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Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping mechanisms. To understand these processes, we conduct 2.5D…

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We consider the impact of stochastic perturbations on otherwise coherent oscillations of classical pulsators. The resulting dynamics are modelled by a driven damped harmonic oscillator subject to either an external or an internal forcing…

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The dispersion and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves are studied in temperature anisotropic space plasma with kappa-Maxwellian distribution. Employing a kinetic approach, the wave frequency and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Rui Huo , Jiulin Du , Ran Guo

Solar chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-hydrodynamic wave phenomena. In recent years, a wealth of wave signatures related to propagating magneto-acoustic modes have been presented, which…

In this paper, we study the weakly-compressive high-frequency plasma waves which are superposed on a large-amplitude Alfv\'en wave in a multi-fluid plasma consisting of protons, electrons, and alpha particles. For these waves, the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch

We derive the nonlinear fractional surface wave equation that governs compression waves at an interface that is coupled to a viscous bulk medium. The fractional character of the differential equation comes from the fact that the effective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Kappler , Shamit Shrivastava , Matthias F. Schneider , Roland R. Netz

The spin wave dispersion relation in both clean and disordered itinerant quantum ferromagnets is calculated. It is found that effects akin to weak-localization physics cause the frequency of the spin-waves to be a nonanalytic function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , A. Millis , Thomas Vojta

Oscillation amplitudes are generally smaller within magnetically active regions like sunspots and plage, when compared to their surroundings. Such magnetic features, when viewed in spatially-resolved powermaps, appear as regions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-30 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , R. Jain , P. H. Keys

Recurrent, arc-shaped intensity disturbances were detected by EUV channels in an active region. The fronts were observed to propagate along a coronal loop bundle rooted in a small area within a sunspot umbra. Previous works have linked…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 M. V. Sieyra , S. Krishna Prasad , G. Stenborg , E. Khomenko , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Costa , A. Esquivel , J. M. Riedl

The kinetic damping mechanism of low frequency transverse perturbations propagating parallel to the magnetic field in a magnetized warm electron plasma is simulated by means of electromagnetic (EM) Vlasov simulations. The short-time-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Anjan Paul , Devendra Sharma

This paper is the third in a series of investigations by the authors. The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en waves is investigated in a 2D $\beta=0$ plasma in the neighbourhood of two dipoles. We use both numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood

The high cadence plasma, electric, and magnetic field measurements by the Magnetospheric MultiScale spacecraft allow us to explore the near-Earth space plasma with an unprecedented time and spatial resolution, resolving electron-scale…

Observations of pulsars across the radio spectrum are revealing a dependence of the characteristic scattering time ($\tau$) on frequency, which is more complex than the simple power law with a theoretically predicted power law index. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-04 Marisa Geyer , Aris Karastergiou

Inertia effects in magnetization dynamics are theoretically shown to result in a different type of spin waves, i.e. nutation surface spin waves, which propagate at terahertz frequencies in in-plane magnetized ferromagnetic thin films.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Mikhail Cherkasskii , Michael Farle , Anna Semisalova

Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta

Slow magnetoacoustic waves are routinely observed in astrophysical plasma systems such as the solar corona. As a slow wave propagates through a plasma, it modifies the equilibrium quantities of density, temperature, and magnetic field. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 T. J. Duckenfield , D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov

The interaction of a fast magnetoacoustic wave with a magnetic null point is studied in the context of the sympathetic flare phenomenon. Attention is paid to steepening the wave caused by the finite-amplitude effects in a non-uniform plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yu Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Mariana Cécere , Andrea Costa

Observations of slow magneto-acoustic waves have been demonstrated to possess a number of applications in coronal seismology. Determination of the polytropic index ($\gamma$) is one such important application. Analysing the amplitudes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Krishna Prasad , J. O. Raes , T. Van Doorsselaere , N. Magyar , D. B. Jess

We study the diffusion of ocean waves by ice bodies much smaller than a wavelength, such as pancakes and small ice floes. We argue that inhomogeneities in the ice cover at scales comparable to that of the wavelength significantly increase…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Piero Olla , Giacomo De Carolis , Francesca De Santi

We study the propagation of gravitational waves in a collisionless plasma with an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of propagation. Due to resonant interaction with the plasma particles the gravitational wave experiences…

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