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The propagation and dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves play a key role in transporting energy from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. Using high-resolution three-dimensional radiative MHD simulations, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Nitin Yadav , Apanba Khuman

Context: Several observations of protoplanetary disks display non-axisymmetric features, often interpreted as vortices. Numerical modeling has repeatedly shown that gap-opening planets are capable of producing large and long-lasting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Thomas Rometsch , Alexandros Ziampras , Wilhelm Kley , William Béthune

A decade ago, two-dimensional microscopic flow visualization proved the theoretically predicted existence of electroconvection roles as well as their decisive role in destabilizing the concentration polarization layer at ion-selective…

We introduce a simple and practical method to create ultrashort intense optical vortices for applications involving high-intensity lasers. Our method utilizes femtosecond laser pulses to laser-etch grating lines into laser-quality gold…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Strohaber , T. Scarborough , C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal

This work presents an approach for the automatic detection of locally turbulent vortices within turbulent 2D flows such as instabilites. First, given a time step of the flow, methods from Topological Data Analysis (TDA) are leveraged to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-26 Fabien Vivodtzev , Florent Nauleau , Jean-Philippe Braeunig , Julien Tierny

Photoionization from energetically distinct electronic states may have a relative time delay of tens of attoseconds. Here we demonstrate that pulses of optical vortices allow measuring such attoseconds delays from magnetic sublevels, even…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

In a galactic halo like the Milky Way, bosonic dark matter particles lighter than about $30$ eV have a de Broglie wavelength larger than the average inter-particle separation and are therefore well described as a set of classical waves.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Lam Hui , Austin Joyce , Michael J. Landry , Xinyu Li

The method of detection of light scattering on stratospheric aerosol particles on the twilight sky background is considered. It is based on the data on sky intensity and polarization in the solar vertical at zenith distances of up to 50 deg…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Oleg S. Ugolnikov , Igor A. Maslov

We estimated photospheric velocities by separately applying the Fourier Local Correlation Tracking (FLCT) and Differential Affine Velocity Estimator (DAVE) methods to 2708 co-registered pairs of SOHO/MDI magnetograms, with nominal 96-minute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. T. Welsch , Y. Li , P. W. Schuck , G. H. Fisher

Harnessing the properties of vortices in superconductors is crucial for fundamental science and technological applications; thus, it has been an ongoing goal to locally probe and control vortices. Here, we use a scanning probe technique…

To study the structure of spatially unresolved features of the solar photosphere, we calculated the Stokes profiles of seven photospheric iron lines using two-dimensional nonstationary MHD models of solar granulation for various amounts of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-13 I. N. Atroshchenko , V. A. Sheminova

Electric currents in solar active regions are thought to provide the energy released via magnetic reconnection in solar flares. Vertical electric current densities $J_z$ at the photosphere may be estimated from vector magnetogram data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. S. Wheatland

The formation of a free-vortex has been captured by using a high-speed camera (Y3, IDTVision, Inc.). The experiment is conducted using a rectangular tank, which is filled with tap water. The water free surface is open to atmospheric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 Ahmad Falahatpisheh , Arash Kheradvar

We present the results of 2D and 3D hydrodynamic simulations of idealized protoplanetary discs that examine the formation and evolution of vortices by the vertical shear instability (VSI). In agreement with recent work, we find that discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Samuel Richard , Richard P. Nelson , Orkan M. Umurhan

Optical vortices are the electromagnetic analogue of fluid vortices studied in hydrodynamics. In both cases the traveling wavefront, either made of light or fluid, is twisted like a corkscrew around its propagation axis - an analogy that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-08 Marco Piccardo , Antonio Ambrosio

Recent instrumentation has demonstrated that the solar atmosphere supports omnipresent transverse waves, which could play a key role in energizing the solar corona. Large-scale studies are required in order to build up an understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Micah J. Weberg , Richard J. Morton , James A. McLaughlin

Ubiquitous small-scale vortices have recently been found in the lower atmosphere of the quiet Sun in state-of-the-art solar observations and in numerical simulations. We investigate the characteristics and temporal evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 S. -H. Park , G. Tsiropoula , I. Kontogiannis , K. Tziotziou , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle

We present and analyze FUSE observations of six solar analogs. These are single, main-sequence G0-5 strs selected as proxies for the Sun at several stages of its main-sequence lifetime. The emission features in the FUSE 920-1180 A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward F. Guinan , Ignasi Ribas , Graham M. Harper

We employ an automated detection algorithm to perform a global study of solar prominence characteristics. We process four months of TESIS observations in the He II 304 A line taken close to the solar minimum of 2008-2009 and focus mainly on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 I. P. Loboda , S. A. Bogachev

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic