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Understanding the dynamic solar chromosphere is fundamental in solar physics. Spicules are an important feature of the chromosphere, connecting the photosphere to the corona, potentially mediating the transfer of energy and mass. The aim of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Bart De Pontieu , Mats Carlsson

The excitation of Alfvenic waves in the solar spicules due to the localized Alfvenic pulse is investigated. A set of incompressible MHD equations in two dimensional $x-z$ plane with steady flows and sheared magnetic fields is solved.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Ebadi , M. Hosseinpour , Z. Fazel

Spicules are rapidly evolving fine-scale jets of magnetized plasma in the solar chromosphere. It remains unclear how these prevalent jets originate from the solar surface and what role they play in heating the solar atmosphere. Using the…

Studies on small-scale jets' formation, propagation, evolution, and role, such as type I and II spicules, mottles, and fibrils in the lower solar atmosphere's energetic balance, have progressed tremendously thanks to the combination of…

Bunches of swaying and spinning plasma jets in the solar atmosphere - the spicules - exhibit a variety of complex dynamics that are clearly observed in the images of the solar limb. Utilizing three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Sahel Dey , Piyali Chatterjee , Robertus Erdelyi

Lateral motions of spicules serve as vital indicators of transverse waves in the solar atmosphere, and their study is crucial for understanding the wave heating process of the corona. Recent observations have focused on "high-frequency"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Hidetaka Kuniyoshi , Munehito Shoda , Richard J. Morton , Takaaki Yokoyama

Alfvenic waves are thought to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Here we investigate the dissipation of standing Alfven waves due to phase mixing at the presence of steady flow and sheared magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Fazel , H. Ebadi

Alfvenic waves are thought to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Here we investigate the dissipation of such waves due to phase mixing at the presence of shear flow and field in the stratified atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Ebadi , M. Hosseinpour

Spicules, the smallest observable jet-like dynamic features ubiquitous in the chromosphere, are supposedly an important potential source for small-scale solar wind transients, with supporting evidence yet needed. We studied the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang , Jiasheng Wang , Meiqi Wang

Using numerical simulations, we study the effects of magnetic resistivity and thermal conductivity in the dynamics and properties of solar jets with characteristics of Type II spicules and cool coronal jets. The dynamic evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán , V. Fedun , G. Verth

Solar winds originate from the Sun and can be classified as fast or slow. Fast solar winds come from coronal holes at the solar poles, while slow solar winds may originate from the equatorial region or streamers. Spicules are jet-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 R. Sadeghi , E. Tavabi

Spicules are plasma jets, observed in the dynamic interface region between the visible solar surface and the hot corona. At any given time, it is estimated that about 3 million spicules are present on the Sun. We find an intriguing parallel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-10 Sahel Dey , Piyali Chatterjee , Murthy O. V. S. N. , Marianna B. Korsos , Jiajia Liu , Christopher J. Nelson , Robertus Erdelyi

We solve the problem of propagation and dissipation of Alfvenic turbulence in a model solar atmosphere consisting of a static photosphere and chromosphere, transition region, and open corona and solar wind, using a phenomenological model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Verdini , M. Velli

Recently a second type of spicules was discovered at the solar limb with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) onboard the Japanese Hinode spacecraft. These previously unrecognized type II spicules are thin chromospheric jets that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Rouppe van der Voort , J. Leenaarts , B. de Pontieu , M. Carlsson , G. Vissers

Jets, whatever small (e.g. spicules) or large (e.g. macrospicules) their size, may play a key role in momentum and energy transport from photosphere to chromosphere and at least to the low corona. Here, we investigate the properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-02 T. S. Kiss , N. Gyenge , R. Erdelyi

We describe a 2.5D MHD simulation describing the evolution of cool jets triggered by initial vertical velocity perturbations in the solar chromosphere. We implement random velocity pulses of amplitude 20-50 km/s between 1 Mm and 1.5 Mm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Abhishek K. Srivastava , Balveer Singh

The observation of propagating magneto-hydrodynamic kink waves in magnetic structures and measurement of their properties (amplitude, phase speed) can be used to diagnose the plasma conditions in the neighbourhood of the magnetic structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 R J Morton

As the interface between the Sun's photosphere and corona, the chromosphere and transition region play a key role in the formation and acceleration of the solar wind. Observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph reveal the…

Using simulated data-driven three-dimensional resistive MHD simulations of the solar atmosphere, we show that magnetic reconnection can be responsible of the formation of jets with characteristic of Type II spicules. For this, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-06 J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán , V. Fedun , G. Verth , S. Shelyag , S. Regnier

In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause the energy transfer between different modes. The perturbation interpreted as an interaction between the modes is inferred as mode coupling. Mode coupling process in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Zahra Fazel