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Hot Jupiters might reside inside the Alfv\'en surface of their host star wind, where the stellar wind is dominated by magnetic energy. The implications of such a sub-Alfv\'enic environment for atmospheric escape are not fully understood.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Andrés Presa , Florian A. Driessen , Aline A. Vidotto

We calculate the mass loss driven by MHD waves from hot Jupiters by using MHD simulations in one-dimensional flux tubes. If a gaseous planet has magnetic field, MHD waves are excited by turbulence at the surface, dissipate at the upper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuki A. Tanaka , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In Hot Jupiters (HJs), atmospherically induced magnetic fields are expected to play an important role in controlling the wind circulation and in determining their inflated radii. Here we perform 1D plane-parallel magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Clàudia Soriano-Guerrero , Daniele Viganò , Rosalba Perna , Albert Elias-López , Hayley Beltz

Hot Jupiter atmospheres exhibit fast, weakly-ionized winds. The interaction of these winds with the planetary magnetic field generates drag on the winds and leads to ohmic dissipation of the induced electric currents. We study the magnitude…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rosalba Perna , Kristen Menou , Emily Rauscher

We investigate non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) effects in the chromosphere on the solar wind by performing MHD simulations for Alfv\'en-wave driven winds with explicitly including Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion. We find that MHD waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Masato Matsuoka , Takeru K. Suzuki , Takato Tokuno , Kensuke Kakiuchi

Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In magnetic waveguides resonant absorption due to plasma inhomogeneity naturally transfers wave energy from large-scale motions to small-scale motions. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Soler , J. Andries , M. Goossens

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Alfv\'en waves have been a focus of laboratory plasma physics and astrophysics for over half a century. Their unique nature makes them ideal energy transporters, and while the solar atmosphere provides…

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

Cool stars at giant and supergiant evolutionary phases present low velocity and high density winds, responsible for the observed high mass-loss rates. Although presenting high luminosities, radiation pressure on dust particles is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. A. Vidotto , V. Jatenco-Pereira

We examine the role of Alfven wave damping in heating the plasma in the magnetic funnels of magnetospheric accretion models of young stars. We study four different damping mechanisms of the Alfven waves: nonlinear, turbulent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Vasconcelos , V. Jatenco-Pereira , R. Opher

Hot Jupiters, with atmospheric temperatures T ~ 1000 K, have residual thermal ionization levels sufficient for the interaction of the ions with the planetary magnetic field to result in a sizable magnetic drag on the (neutral) atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rosalba Perna , Kristen Menou , Emily Rauscher

While magnetism in exoplanets remains largely unknown, Hot Jupiters have been considered as natural candidates to harbour intense magnetic fields, both due to their large masses and their high energy budgets coming from irradiation as a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Clàudia Soriano-Guerrero , Daniele Viganò , Rosalba Perna , Taner Akgün , Carlos Palenzuela

M dwarf's atmosphere and wind is expected to be highly magnetized. The nonlinear propagation of Alfv\'en wave could play a key role in both heating the stellar atmosphere and driving the stellar wind. Along this Alfv\'en wave scenario, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

It is now established that the hot Jupiters have extensive gaseous (ionospheric) envelopes, which expanding far beyond the Roche lobe. The envelopes are weakly bound to the planet and affected by strong influence of stellar wind…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 A. G. Zhilkin , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaigorodov

Atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets can be driven by high energy radiation from the host star. The planetary outflows interacting with the stellar wind may generate observable transit signals that depend on the strength of the stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hiroto Mitani , Riouhei Nakatani , Naoki Yoshida

Absorbtion of Alfven waves is considered to be the main mechanism of heating in the solar corona. It is concluded that the sharp increase of the plasma temperature by two orders of magnitude is related to a self-induced opacity with respect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. M. Mishonov , M. V. Stoev , Y. G. Maneva

Alfv\'en waves are responsible for the transfer of magnetic energy in the magnetized plasma. They are involved in heating solar atmosphere and driving solar wind through various nonlinear processes. Since the magnetic field configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

(abridged) We investigate how the properties of the corona and solar wind in the open coronal holes depend on the properties of the magnetic fields and their footpoint motions at the surface, by perfoming 1D MHD simulations from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The ion temperature of the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn was observed to increase substantially from about 10 to 30 planet radii. Different heating mechanisms have been proposed to explain such observations, including a heating model…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 C. S. Ng , B. R. Neupane , P. A. Delamere , P. A. Damiano

We investigate the driving mechanism of Alfv\'en wave-driven stellar winds from red giant stars, Arcturus ($\alpha$ Boo; K1.5 III) and Aldebaran ($\alpha$ Tau; K5 III), with nonideal MHD simulations in 1D super-radially open flux tubes.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Takeru K. Suzuki , Keiichi Ohnaka , Yuki Yasuda
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