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Coronal holes are areas on the Sun with open magnetic field lines. They are a source region of the solar wind, but how the wind emerges from coronal holes is not known. We observed a coronal hole using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on the…

The slow solar wind belt in the quiet corona, observed with the Metis coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter on May 15, 2020, during the activity minimum of the cycle 24, in a field of view extending from 3.8 $R_\odot$ to 7.0 $R_\odot$, is…

Both coronal holes and active regions are source regions of the solar wind. The distribution of these coronal structures across both space and time is well known, but it is unclear how much each source contributes to the solar wind. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 D. Stansby , L. M. Green , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , T. S. Horbury

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

The solar wind is the extension of the Sun's hot and ionized corona, and it exists in a state of continuous expansion into interplanetary space. The radial distance at which the wind's outflow speed exceeds the phase speed of Alfvenic and…

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves are ubiquitously observed in the solar atmosphere. The propagation and damping of these waves may play relevant roles for the transport and dissipation of energy in the solar atmospheric medium. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Recent in-situ observations and numerical models indicated various types of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves contributing to the solar wind acceleration. Among them is an MHD wave decomposition at distances closer than 50 $R_{\odot}$ using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Shota Chiba , Munehito Shoda , Takeshi Imamura

The solar atmosphere is known to be replete with magneto-hydrodynamic wave modes, and there has been significant investment in understanding how these waves propagate through the Sun's atmopshere and deposit their energy into the plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 R. J. Morton , R. Sharma , E. Tajfirouze , H. Miriyala

Context. The Sun's complex corona is the source of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. While the large scale morphology is well understood, the impact of variations in coronal properties on the scale of a few degrees on…

Context. Tracing wave activity from the photosphere to the corona has important implications for coronal heating and prediction of the solar wind. Despite extensive theory and simulations, the detection of waves in realistic MHD simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley

The plasma thermodynamics in the solar upper atmosphere, particularly in the corona, are dominated by the magnetic field, which controls the flow and dissipation of energy. The relative lack of knowledge of the coronal vector magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 N. E. Raouafi , P. Riley , S. Gibson , S. Fineschi , S. K. Solanki

The heating of the lower solar corona is examined using numerical simulations and theoretical models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in open magnetic regions. A turbulent energy cascade to small length scales perpendicular to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Dmitruk , W. H. Matthaeus , L. J. Milano , S. Oughton , G. P. Zank , D. J. Mullan

We investigate the relationship between solar coronal holes and open-field regions using three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations combined with remote-sensing observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Haruhisa Iijima

This report presents a three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model of the white-light coronagraph observational phenomena known as coronal inflows and in/out pairs. Coronal inflows in the LASCO/C2 field of view…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Benjamin J. Lynch

Prominences or filaments are cool clouds of partially ionized plasma living in the solar corona. Ground- and space-based observations have confirmed the presence of oscillatory motions in prominences and they have been interpreted in terms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester

We investigate the propagation of MHD waves in a homogenous, magnetized plasma in a weakly stratified atmosphere, representing hot coronal loops. In most of earlier studies a time-independent equilibrium is considered. Here we abandon this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Erdelyi , K. S. Al-Ghafri , R. J. Morton

Solar coronal holes are sources of high-speed solar wind streams, which cause persistent geomagnetic activity especially at high latitudes. Here we estimate seasonal solar wind speeds at 1 AU for the last 100 years using high-latitude…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kalevi Mursula , Lauri Holappa , Renata Lukianova

Although the mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar wind are still being actively investigated, it is largely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić , Andrea Verdini

A new solar feature termed a dark jet is identified from observations of an extended solar coronal hole that was continuously monitored for over 44 hours by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer on board the Hinode spacecraft in 2011 February 8-10.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Peter R. Young

Coronal loops trace out bipolar, arch-like magnetic fields above the Sun's surface. Recent measurements that combine rotational tomography, extreme ultraviolet imaging, and potential-field extrapolation have shown the existence of large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Avery J. Schiff , Steven R. Cranmer