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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

We study the impulsively generated non-linear Alfv\'en waves in the solar atmosphere, and describe their most likely role in the observed non-thermal broadening of some spectral lines in solar coronal holes. We solve numerically the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Chmielewski , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak

This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave interactions transfer energy to high-frequency fast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

In this paper we calculate the turbulent heating rates in the solar wind using the Kolmogorov-like MHD turbulence phenomenology with Kolmogorov's constants calculated by {\it Verma and Bhattacharjee }[1995b,c]. We find that the turbulent…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Mahendra K. Verma

We review our recent results of Alfven wave-driven winds. First, we present the result of a self-consistent 1D MHD simulations for solar winds from the photosphere to interplanetary region. Here, we emphasize the importance of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Takeru K. Suzuki

The coronal heating problem remains a fundamental challenge in solar physics. While AWSoM-type models (Alfv\'en Wave Solar Model) have proven highly successful in reproducing the large-scale structure of the solar corona, they inherently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 M. McMurdo , T. Van Doorsselaere , N. Magyar , L. Banovic , D. Lim

The solar wind is connected to the Sun's atmosphere by flux tubes that are rooted in an ever-changing pattern of positive and negative magnetic polarities on the surface. Observations indicate that the magnetic field is filamentary and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Steven R. Cranmer , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Lauren N. Woolsey

We used our newly developed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code to perform 2.5D simulations of a fast-mode MHD wave interacting with coronal holes (CH) of varying Alfv\'en speed which result from assuming different CH densities. We find that…

Alfv\'en waves may be generated via mode conversion from fast magneto-acoustic waves near their reflection level in the solar atmosphere, with implications both for coronal oscillations and for active region helio-seismology. In active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul S. Cally , Shelley C. Hansen

Kink oscillations of a coronal loop are observed and studied in detail because they provide a unique probe into the structure of coronal loops through MHD seismology and a potential test of coronal heating through the phase-mixing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 P. Pagano , D. J. Pascoe , I. De Moortel

Observations have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves over a large frequency range are ubiquitous in solar prominences. The waves are probably driven by photospheric motions and may transport energy up to prominences suspended in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Heating of magnetized turbulent plasma is calculated in the framework of Burgers turbulence [A.M. Polyakov, Phys. Rev. E. 52, 6183 (1995)]. Explicit formula for the energy flux of Alfven waves along the magnetic field is presented. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Mishonov , Y. G. Maneva

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

Static distributions of temperature and wind velocity at the transition region are calculated within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of completely ionized hydrogen plasma. The numerical solution of the derived equations gives…

We derive a set of simplified equations that can be used for numerical studies of reduced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence within a small patch of the radially expanding solar wind. We allow the box to be either stationary in the Sun's frame…

We present three-dimensional, hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations of driven Alfv\'{e}n-wave turbulence of relevance to the collisionless near-Earth solar wind. Special attention is paid to the spectral transition that occurs near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Eliot Quataert

Using advanced numerical magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere, including non-grey radiative transport and a non-ideal equation of state, we analyse plasma motions in photospheric magnetic vortices. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Shelyag , P. S. Cally , A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis

After leaving the Sun's corona, the solar wind continues to accelerate and cools, but more slowly than expected for a freely expanding adiabatic gas. We use in situ measurements from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter spacecrafts to…

We perform 2.5D hybrid simulations with massless fluid electrons and kinetic particle-in-cell ions to study the temporal evolution of ion temperatures, temperature anisotropies and velocity distribution functions in relation to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. G. Maneva , Adolfo F. Viñas , Pablo S. Moya , R. Wicks , S. Poedts

We consider a series of MHD simulations in which a small amplitude, transverse velocity perturbation is introduced into a complex magnetic field. We analysed the deformation of the wave fronts as the perturbation propagates through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Jack Reid , Alan Hood