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Even though the solar wind is highly supersonic, intense ultra-low frequency (ULF) wave activity has been detected in regions just upstream of the bow shocks of magnetized planets. This feature was first observed ahead of the Earth's bow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-23 Nahuel Andres , Daniel O. Gomez , Cesar Bertucci , Christian Mazelle , Michele K. Dougherty

Ultra-low-frequency (ULF) oscillations of the magnetospheric cusps are observed permanently in the near-mid sector of auroral oval in the form of so-called IPCL. In this paper, we posed the question: do electromagnetic waves incident on…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 A. V. Guglielmi , O. V. Kozyreva

We study the interaction of upstream ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves with collisionless shocks by analyzing the outputs of eleven 2D local hybrid simulation runs. Our simulated shocks have Alfv\'enic Mach numbers between 4.29-7.42 and their…

The multi-spacecraft missions (Cluster and THEMIS) observations allowed to collect large data base for Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves properties, their localization, and sources. Mainly here we focused on these recent results. Studying of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Oleksiy Agapitov , Oleg Cheremnykh

We characterize the nature of magnetic structures in the foreshock region of Mars associated with discontinuities in the solar wind. The structures form at the upstream edge of moving foreshocks caused by slow rotations in the…

Umbral flashes (UFs) are most common phenomenon of wave processes in sunspots. Studying the relationship between wave time dynamics and the origin of UFs requires further investigation of their fine spatial and height structure. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 R. Sych , M. Wang

Compensated-current systems created by energetic ion beams are widespread in space and astrophysical plasmas. The well-known examples are foreshock regions in the solar wind and around supernova remnants. We found a new oblique Alfv\'enic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Malovichko , Y. Voitenko , J. De Keyser

Umbral flashes (UFs) are emissions in the core of chromospheric lines caused by upward propagating waves steepening into shocks. UFs are followed by an expanding blue shifted umbral wave (UW) and red-shifted plasma returning to the initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Ali Kilcik , Seray Sahin , Valentina Abramenko , Eun-Kyung Lim

Past kinetic simulations and spacecraft observations have shown that traveling foreshocks (TFs) are bounded by either foreshock compressional boundaries (FCBs) or foreshock bubbles (FBs). Here we present four TFs with a different kind of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Primoz Kajdic , Xóchitl Blanco-Cano , Diana Rojas-Castllo , Nojan Omidi

Gravitational waves (GWs, from binary merger) interacting with super-strong magnetic fields of the neutron star (in the same binary system), would lead to perturbed electromagnetic waves [EMWs, in the same frequencies of these GWs,…

General Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Hao Wen

The formation of shocks within the solar atmosphere remains one of the few observable signatures of energy dissipation arising from the plethora of magnetohydrodynamic waves generated close to the solar surface. Active region observations…

Large-scale compressive slow-mode-like fluctuations can cause variations in the density, temperature, and magnetic-field magnitude in the solar wind. In addition, they also lead to fluctuations in the differential flow $U_{\rm p\alpha}$…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Xingyu Zhu , Daniel Verscharen , Jiansen He , Bennett A. Maruca , Christopher J. Owen

The weakly ionized plasma in the Earth's ionosphere is controlled by a complex interplay between solar and magnetospheric inputs from above, atmospheric processes from below, and plasma electrodynamics from within. This interaction results…

Instabilities described by linear theory characterize an important form of wave-particle interaction in the solar wind. We diagnose unstable behavior of solar wind plasma between 0.3 and 1 au via the Nyquist criterion, applying it to fits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mihailo M. Martinovic , Kristopher G. Klein , Tereza Durovcova , Benjamin L. Alterman

Foreshock transients upstream of the Earth's bow shock, such as foreshock bubbles and hot flow anomalies, are often characterized by reduced-density cores and strong plasma fluctuations. These conditions provide environments where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Runyi Liu , Terry Liu , Xin An , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Xiaofei Shi

In this paper we present results of a comparison between ultra low frequency (ULF) electromagnetic (EM) radiation, recorded by an electric field instrument (ICE) onboard the satellite DEMETER in the topside ionosphere, and the seismicity of…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 M. Athanasiou , G. Machairidis , C. David , G. Anagnostopoulos

Finite-amplitude low-frequency Alfv\'en waves (AWs) are ubiquitous in space plasmas, where they play a key role in the transport and dissipation of energy, particularly in the heating of ions in the solar corona and solar wind. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jingyu Peng , Jiansen He , Rong Lin

The tenuous supersonic solar wind that streams from the top of the corona passes through a natural boundary -- the Alfv\'en surface -- that marks the causal disconnection of individual packets of plasma and magnetic flux from the Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. E. DeForest , T. A. Howard , D. J. McComas

The propagation of Langmuir waves in plasmas is known to be sensitive to density fluctuations. Such fluctuations may lead to the coexistence of wave pairs that have almost opposite wave-numbers in the vicinity of their reflection points.…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 V. V. Krasnoselskikh , T. Dudok de Wit , S. D. Bale

Magnetospheric ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves contribute to space weather in the solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere system. The monitoring of these waves by space- and ground-based instruments, however, produces "big data" which is…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 M. O. Archer , M. D. Hartinger , R. Redmon , V. Angelopoulos , B. M. Walsh
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