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EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and shocks can be present in explosively unstable plasmas, forming a new electromagnetic environment, which we call here turbulent reconnection, and where spontaneous formation of current sheets takes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

In this paper, We report the interplanetary effects of a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the intense X2.7 flare that occurred on 05 May 2015. The near-Sun signatures of the CME at low-coronal heights $<$2 {R$_{\odot}$} are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Abhishek Johri , P. K. Manoharan

Powerful solar eruptions are known to produce fast and wide shock waves in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. The relationship between the coronal shock waves, solar energetic particles and different types of radio emission is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Illya Plotnikov , Alexis P. Rouillard , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Immanuel Jebaraj

We propose an in-situ formation model for inverse-polarity solar prominence and demonstrate it using self-consistent 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, including thermal conduction along magnetic fields and optically thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takafumi Kaneko , Takaaki Yokoyama

The complex interaction between shocks and plasma turbulence is extremely important to address crucial features of energy conversion in a broad range of astrophysical systems. We study the interaction between a supercritical, perpendicular…

A three-dimensional numerical experiment of the launching of a hot and fast coronal jet followed by several violent eruptions is analyzed in detail. These events are initiated through the emergence of a magnetic flux rope from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando Moreno-Insertis , Klaus Galsgaard

Transverse MHD waves permeate the solar atmosphere and are a candidate for coronal heating. However, the origin of these waves is still unclear. In this work, we analyse coordinated observations from \textit{Hinode}/SOT and \textit{IRIS} of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Patrick Antolin , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

We propose a method for diagnosing the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere using an increase in oscillation amplitudes resulting from minuscule solar flares. As an example, we consider a B2 flare, which caused a sharp short-lived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

We investigate the acceleration of charged particles (both electrons and protons) at collisionless shocks predicted to exist in the vicinity of solar flares. The existence of standing termination shocks has been examined by flare models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

Prominences in the solar corona are hundredfold cooler and denser than their surroundings, with a total mass of 1.e13 up to 1.e15 g. Here we report on the first comprehensive simulations of three-dimensional, thermally and gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Patrick Antolin , Oliver Porth

The solar corona has been revealed in the past decade to be a highly dynamic nonequilibrium plasma environment. Both the loop-filled coronal base and the extended acceleration region of the solar wind appear to be strongly turbulent, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer

Observations revealed rich dynamics within prominences, the cool 10,000 K, macroscopic (sizes of order 100 Mm) "clouds" in the million degree solar corona. Even quiescent prominences are continuously perturbed by hot, rising bubbles. Since…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rony Keppens , Chun Xia , Oliver Porth

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

The variations of the 3-D coronal magnetic fields associated with the X3.4-class flare of active region 10930 are studied in this paper. The coronal magnetic field data are reconstructed from the photospheric vector magnetograms obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-03 Han He , Huaning Wang , Yihua Yan , P. F. Chen , Cheng Fang

Solar wind measurements carried out by NASA's Wind spacecraft before, during and after the passing of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) detected on 12-14 September 2014 have been used in order to examine several properties of…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Roque Márquez Rodríguez , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Emiliya Yordanova

We aim to study excitation of the observed 5-min oscillations in the solar corona by localized pulses that are launched in the photosphere. We solve the full set of nonlinear one-dimensional Euler equations numerically for the velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. V. Zaqarashvili , K. Murawski , M. K. Khodachenko , D. Lee

We review major achievements in our understanding of multiphase coronal plasma, where cool-dense and hot-tenuous matter coexists, brought about by advances in modeling and theory, inspired by observations. We give an overview of models that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou , Chun Xia

Turbulence properties are examined before, during and after a coronal mass ejection (CME) detected by the6Wind spacecraft on July 2012. The power-law scaling of the structure functions, providing information on the7power spectral density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-07 Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Emiliya Yordanova , Andrew P. Dimmock , Daniele Telloni

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Masson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore