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Spicules have been proposed as significant contributors to the mass and energy balance of the corona. While previous observations have provided a glimpse of short-lived transient brightenings in the corona that are associated with spicules,…

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The solar interior is filled with turbulent thermal convection, which plays a key role in the energy and momentum transport and the generation of the magnetic field. The turbulent flows in the solar interior cannot be optically detected due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hiroyuki Masaki , Hideyuki Hotta

This paper reviews the current state of our understanding of high-speed solar wind acceleration in coronal holes. Observations by SOHO, coupled with interplanetary particle measurements going back several decades, have put strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer

High-quality imaging spectroscopy in the H{\alpha} line, obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) at La Palma and covering a small sunspot and its surroundings, are studied. They…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gregal Vissers , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Studies of solar wind turbulence traditionally employ high-resolution magnetic field data, but high-resolution measurements of ion and electron moments have been possible only recently. We report the first turbulence studies of ion and…

The first computation of the compressible energy transfer rate from $\sim$ 0.2 AU up to $\sim$ 1.7 AU is obtained using PSP, THEMIS and MAVEN observations. The compressible energy cascade rate $\varepsilon_C$ is computed for hundred of…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 N. Andrés , F. Sahraoui , L. Z. Hadid , S. Y. Huang , N. Romanelli , S. Galtier , G. DiBraccio , J. Halekas

Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an investigation of granular dynamical motions of full length…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Liu Yanxiao , Jiang Chaowei , Yuan Ding , Zuo Pingbing , Wang Yi , Cao Wenda

In the lower solar atmosphere, the chromosphere is permeated by jets known as spicules, in which plasma is propelled at speeds of 50 to 150 kilometers per second into the corona. The origin of the spicules is poorly understood, although…

We investigate the propagation of high-speed solar wind streams from their origin near the Sun to 1 AU using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By tracking both global stream structure and individual plasma parcels, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stefan J. Hofmeister

To study the dynamics of coronal holes and the role of waves in the acceleration of the solar wind, spectral observations were performed over polar coronal hole regions with the SUMER spectrometer on SoHO and the EIS spectrometer on Hinode.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-08 D. Banerjee , L. Teriaca , G. R. Gupta , S. Imada , G. Stenborg , S. K. Solanki

How the solar atmosphere is heated from a temperature of about $5,000-6,000$\,K in the lower atmosphere to about $1-2$\,MK in the corona has challenged the astrophysical community for about 80 years. The same puzzle exists for the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Tanmoy Samanta , Guanchong Cheng , Yifu Wang , Robert Erdelyi

Plasma processes occurring in the corona and solar wind can be probed by studying the thermodynamic properties of different ion species. However, most in-situ observations of positive ions in the solar wind are taken at 1 AU, where…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 D. Stansby , D. Perrone , L. Matteini , T. S. Horbury , C. S. Salem

We aim to study the formation and evolution of solar spicules by means of numerical simulations of the solar atmosphere. With the use of newly developed JOANNA code, we numerically solve two-fluid (for ions + electrons and neutrals)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Błażej Kuźma , Kris Murawski , Pradeep Kayshap , Darek Wójcik , Abhishek Kumar Srivastava , Bhola N. Dwivedi

A recent paper by Stanimirovic etal (2008) presents quit interesting results from HI observations of the Magellanic Stream (MS) tip. The high spatial resolution of the data reveals rich and complex morphological and kinematic structures;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-29 Itzhak Goldman

We take stock of recent observations that identify the episodic plasma heating and injection of Alfvenic energy at the base of fast solar wind (in coronal holes). The plasma heating is associated with the occurrence of chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Scott W. McIntosh

An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) close-up view of the Sun offers unprecedented detail of heating events in the solar corona. Enhanced temporal and spatial images obtained by the Solar Orbiter during its first science perihelion enabled us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , L. P. Chitta , Huidong Hu , Xiaowei Zhao

Supergranules create a peak in the spatial spectrum of photospheric velocity features. They have some properties of convection cells but their origin is still being debated in the literature. The time-distance helioseismology constitutes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 David Korda , Michal Švanda

Hydrodynamic simulations of granular convection predict the existence of supersonic flows covering ~3-4% of the solar surface at any time, but these flows have not been detected unambigously as yet. Using data from the spectropolarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 L. R. Bellot Rubio

Results of forward modelling of acoustic wave propagation in a realistic solar sub-photosphere with two cases of steady horizontal flows are presented and analysed by the means of local helioseismology. The simulations are based on fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Shelyag , R. Erdelyi , M. J. Thompson

The origin of solar transition region redshifts is not completely understood. Current research is addressing this issue by investigating three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic models that extend from the photosphere to the corona. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pia Zacharias , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter