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Fast magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating in the solar chromosphere. The reconnection time scale of traditional models is shortened at the onset of the coalescence instability, which forms…

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An ion beam can destabilize Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron waves and magnetosonic/whistler waves if the beam speed is sufficiently large. Numerical solutions of the hot-plasma dispersion relation have previously shown that the minimum beam speed…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 Daniel Verscharen , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Context: Magnetohydrodynamic thermal modes may play an important role in the formation, plasma condensation, and evolution of solar prominences. Unstable thermal modes due to unbalance between radiative losses and heating can lead to rapid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester , Susanna Parenti

Prominences or filaments are cool clouds of partially ionized plasma living in the solar corona. Ground- and space-based observations have confirmed the presence of oscillatory motions in prominences and they have been interpreted in terms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester

We investigate the role of thermal instability, arising from radiative cooling of an optically thin, dusty plasma, by linear stability analysis. The corresponding isobaric stability condition for condensation mode is found to be modified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Madhurjya P. Bora

Prominences are incredibly dynamic across the whole range of their observable spatial scales, with observations revealing gravity-driven fluid instabilities, waves, and turbulence. With all these complex motions, it would be expected that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Andrew Hillier , Vanessa Polito

A new condition for the linear dissipative instability of the strong plane shock wave in an arbitrary medium is obtained. The instability of the shock is realized due to the flow instability behind its front, which is similar to the known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sergey G. Chefranov

Threads are the building blocks of solar prominences and very often show longitudinal oscillatory motions that are strongly attenuated with time. The damping mechanism responsible for the reported oscillations is not fully understood yet.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Terradas , M. Luna , R. Soler , R. Oliver , M. Carbonell , J. L Ballester

Magneto-acoustic waves in partially ionized plasmas are damped due to elastic collisions between charged and neutral particles. Here, we use a linearized two-fluid model to describe the influence of this collisional interaction on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 David Martínez-Gómez

Recent observations revealed that the solar atmosphere is highly structured in density, temperature and magnetic field. The presence of these gradients may lead to the appearance of currents in the plasma, which in the weakly collisional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Mecheri , E. Marsch

To study acoustic wave propagation and the corresponding energy deposition in partially ionized plasmas, we use a two-fluid computational model that treats neutrals and charged particles (electrons and ions) as two separate fluids. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-26 Fan Zhang , Stefaan Poedts , Andrea Lani , Błażej Kuźma , Kris Murawski

Here we study the nature and characteristics of waves propagating in partially ionised plasmas in the weakly ionised limit, typical for the lower part of the solar atmosphere. The framework in which the properties of waves are discussed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Alharbi , I. Ballai , V. Fedun , G. Verth

Instabilities described by linear theory characterize an important form of wave-particle interaction in the solar wind. We diagnose unstable behavior of solar wind plasma between 0.3 and 1 au via the Nyquist criterion, applying it to fits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mihailo M. Martinovic , Kristopher G. Klein , Tereza Durovcova , Benjamin L. Alterman

The presence of neutral species in a plasma has been shown to greatly affect the properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves. For instance, the interaction between ions and neutrals through momentum transfer collisions causes the damping of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Observations show that waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and may play an important role for plasma heating. The study of waves in the solar corona is usually based on linear ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for a fully ionized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. Soler , A. J. Diaz , J. L. Ballester , M. Goossens

Compressible disturbances propagate in a plasma in the form of magnetoacoustic waves driven by both gas pressure and magnetic forces. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of ionized and neutral species are coupled due to ion-neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marc Carbonell , Jose Luis Ballester

The dynamics of linear perturbations in a radiatively cooling dusty plasma is considered, with the charge of both dust ($Z_d$) and plasma ($Z_p$) components being allowed to vary with their densities. It is shown that in the long-wavelength…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miguel H. Ibanez S. , Yuri A. Shchekinov

In magnetized plasmas, a radial gradient of parallel velocity, where parallel refers to the direction of magnetic field, can destabilise an electrostatic mode called Parallel Velocity Gradient (PVG). The theory of PVG has been mainly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Jeanne Bourgeois , Maxime Lesur , Guillermo Cuerva Lazaro , Yusuke Kosuga

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

We consider the propagation of hydromagnetic waves generated by a compact turbulent source in low ionized plasmas, applying the Lighthill theory. We assume the plasma to be isothermal, and adopt a uniform, stationary medium thread by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hideko Nomura , Hideyuki Kamaya , Shin Mineshige