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The slow solar wind is generally believed to result from the interaction of open and closed coronal magnetic flux at streamers and pseudostreamers. We use 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to determine the detailed structure and…

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The solar modulation effect of cosmic rays in the heliosphere is an energy-, time-, and particle-dependent phenomenon which arises from a combination of basic particle transport processes such as diffusion, convection, adiabatic cooling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Miguel Orcinha , Fernando Barao , Bruna Bertucci

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for substantial revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to calculate the scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Context: The mechanism behind the heating of the solar chromosphere remains unclear. Friction between neutrals and charges is expected to contribute to plasma heating in a partially ionised plasma (PIP). Aims: We aim to study the efficiency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 M. M. Gómez Míguez , D. Martínez-Gómez , E. Khomenko , B. Popescu Braileanu , M. Collados , P. S. Cally

Broadly, solar wind source regions can be classified by their magnetic topology as intermittently and continuously open to the heliosphere. Early models of solar wind acceleration do not account for the fastest, non-transient solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 B. L. Alterman

Identifying the heating mechanisms of the solar corona and the driving mechanisms of solar wind are key challenges in understanding solar physics. A full three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation was conducted to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Takuma Matsumoto

The standard way to model the cosmic ray solar modulations is via the Parker equation, that is as the effect of diffusion in the turbulent magnetic of an expanding solar wind. Calculations performed with this method that do not include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Paolo Lipari

This paper explores the effects of numerical algorithms on global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of solar wind (SW) in the inner heliosphere. To do so, we use sunRunner3D, a 3-D MHD model that employs the boundary conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Luis Ángel de León Alanís , J. J. González-Avilés , P. Riley , M. Ben-Nun

Differential flows among different ion species are often observed in the solar wind, and such ion differential flows can provide the free energy to drive Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron and fast-magnetosonic/whistler instabilities. Previous works…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-01 Wen Liu , Jinsong Zhao , Huasheng Xie , Yuhang Yao , Dejin Wu , L. C. Lee

The solar wind (SW) is a vital component of space weather, providing a background for solar transients such as coronal mass ejections, stream interaction regions, and energetic particles propagating toward Earth. Accurate prediction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Dinesha V. Hegde , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Shaela I. Jones , Charles N. Arge

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), a major component of space weather, propagate through the interplanetary medium strongly guided by the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF). In this work, we analyse the implications a flat Heliospheric…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Markus Battarbee , Silvia Dalla , Mike S. Marsh

The outer heliosphere is a dynamic region shaped largely by the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. While interplanetary magnetic field and plasma observations by the Voyager spacecraft have significantly…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 T. K. Kim , N. V. Pogorelov , G. P. Zank , H. A. Elliott , D. J. McComas

By applying recent results for the slab correlation time scale onto cosmic ray scattering theory, we compute cosmic ray parallel mean free paths within the quasilinear limit. By employing these results onto charged particle transport in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Shalchi , A. Lazarian , R. Schlickeiser

We develop a numerical model to study the time-dependent modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) in the inner heliosphere. In the model a time-delayed modified Parker heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) and a new diffusion coefficient…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Gang Qin , Zhenning Shen

Understanding the transport of energetic cosmic rays belongs to the most challenging topics in astrophysics. Diffusion due to scattering by electromagnetic fluctuations is a key process in cosmic-ray transport. The transition from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 P. Reichherzer , J. Becker Tjus , E. G. Zweibel , L. Merten , M. J. Pueschel

The solar wind is a structured and complex system, in which the fields vary strongly over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. As an example, the turbulent activity in the wind affects the evolution in the heliosphere of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. E. Ruiz , S. Dasso , W. H. Matthaeus , J. M. Weygand

This paper studies cosmic ray (CR) transport in magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Snehanshu Maiti , Kirit Makwana , Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan

We apply a wind model, driven by combined cosmic-ray and thermal-gas pressure, to the Milky Way, and show that the observed Galactic diffuse soft X-ray emission can be better explained by a wind than by previous static gas models. We find…

An important factor limiting our ability to understand the production and propagation of cosmic rays pertains to the effects of heliospheric forces, commonly known as solar modulation. The solar wind is capable of generating time and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The solar corona and young solar wind may be characterized by critical surfaces -- the sonic, Alfv\'en, and first plasma-$\beta$ unity surfaces -- that demarcate regions where the solar wind flow undergoes certain crucial transformations.…

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