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Solar flares involve the sudden release of magnetic energy in the solar corona. Accelerated nonthermal electrons have often been invoked as the primary means for transporting the bulk of the released energy to the lower solar atmosphere.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Sijie Yu , Bin Chen

It has been shown that resonant absorption is a robust physical mechanism to explain the observed damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in the solar atmosphere due to naturally occurring plasma inhomogeneity in the direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Gary Verth , Marcel Goossens

The ubiquity of recently discovered low-amplitude decayless kink oscillations of plasma loops allows for the seismological probing of the corona on a regular basis. In particular, in contrast to traditionally applied seismology which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sergey A. Anfinogentov , Valery. M. Nakariakov

Context. In the coronal open-field regions, such as coronal holes, there are many transverse waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes, generally interpreted as kink waves. Previous studies have highlighted their potential in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hui Tian , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas

Coronal jets are transient, collimated eruptions that occur in regions of predominantly open magnetic field in the solar corona. Our understanding of these events has greatly evolved in recent years but several open questions, such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 T. Torok , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikic , J. A. Linker , M. G. Linton

Aims. The goal is to employ a 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model including spectral synthesis to model the corona in an observed solar active region. This will allow us to judge the merits of the coronal heating mechanism built into the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ph. -A. Bourdin , S. Bingert , H. Peter

Context. Tracing wave activity from the photosphere to the corona has important implications for coronal heating and prediction of the solar wind. Despite extensive theory and simulations, the detection of waves in realistic MHD simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are candidates for heating the solar chromosphere, although it is still unclear which mode of the wave is dominant in heating. We perform two-dimensional radiative MHD simulation to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima

Sunspots have played a key role in aiding our understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave phenomenon in the Sun's atmosphere, and it is well known they demonstrate a number of wave phenomenon associated with slow MHD modes. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 R. J. Morton , K. Mooroogen , V. M. J. Henriques

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

We present results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave propagation in a solar magnetic flux tube. Our study aims at understanding the properties of a range of MHD wave modes generated by different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 G. Vigeesh , V. Fedun , S. S. Hasan , R. Erdélyi

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been considered as energy sources for heating the solar chromosphere and the corona. Although MHD waves have been observed in the solar atmosphere, there are a lack of quantitative estimates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Ryuichi Kanoh , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada

Slow magnetoacoustic waves in a static background provide a seismological tool to probe the solar atmosphere in the analytic frame. By analyzing the spatiotemporal variation of the electron number density of plume structure in coronal holes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Il-Hyun Cho , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yong-Jae Moon , Jin-Yi Lee , Dae Jung Yu , Kyung-Suk Cho , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Harim Lee

Magnetic flux tubes in the solar corona support a rich variety of transverse oscillations, which are theoretically interpreted as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes with a fast and/or Alfv\'enic character. In the standard flux tube model made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Roberto Soler , Andrew Hillier

Little attention has been paid to group velocities of three-dimensional (3D) MHD waves in solar coronal seismology. This study aims to present a rather comprehensive examination on the group velocities of trapped 3D kink modes in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jing Liu , Bo Li , Mijie Shi , Mingzhe Guo , Hui Yu

In this review, our present day understanding of the Sun's global photospheric and coronal magnetic fields is discussed from both observational and theoretical viewpoints. Firstly, the large-scale properties of photospheric magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates

We establish a spherically symmetric model of solar atmosphere, which consists of the whole chromosphere and low corona below the $1.25$ solar radius. It is a hydrodynamic model with heating in the chromosphere through an artificial energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Li Xue , Cheng-Liang Jiao , Li-Xin Zhang

Current analytical and numerical modelling suggest the existence of ubiquitous thin current sheets in the corona that could explain the observed heating requirements. On the other hand, new high resolution observations of the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Antolin , T. Yokoyama , T. Van Doorsselaere

This Special Topic focuses on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes in deep interiors of planets, in which their fluid dynamos are in operation. The dynamo-generated, global, magnetic fields provide a background for our solar-terrestrial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 K. Hori , A. Nilsson , S. M. Tobias

We study transverse fast magnetohydrodynamic waves in a system of two coronal loops modeled as smoothed, dense plasma cylinders in a uniform magnetic field. The collective oscillatory properties of the system due to the interaction between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Luna , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester
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