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The characteristics of Alfv\'en waves propagating in a direction oblique to the ambient magnetic field in a stellar wind environment are discussed. A kinetic formulation for a magnetized dusty plasma is adopted considering Maxwellian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 L. B. De Toni , R. Gaelzer , L. F. Ziebell

The effect of Alfv\'en waves on the thermal instability of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) is investigated both analytically and numerically. A stability analysis of a finite amplitude circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Hennebelle , T. Passot

Under the basic assumption that the observed turbulent motions in molecular clouds are Alfvenic waves or turbulence, we emphasize that the Doppler broadening of molecular line profiles directly measures the velocity amplitudes of the waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Taoling Xie

Magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind are often observed to maintain constant magnitude of the magnetic field in a manner consistent with spherically-polarized large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves. We investigate the effect of spherical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-17 Corina Dunn , Trevor Bowen , Alfred Mallet , Samuel Badman , Stuart Bale

In magnetized, stratified astrophysical environments such as the Sun's corona and solar wind, Alfv\'enic fluctuations ''reflect'' from background gradients, enabling nonlinear interactions and thus dissipation of their energy into heat.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Romain Meyrand , Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We carry out two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of an ensemble of Alfv\'enic fluctuations propagating in a structured, expanding solar wind including the presence of fast and slow solar wind streams. Using an appropriate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani , Franco Rappazzo , Victor Réville

Alfv\'en waves are fundamental magnetized modes which play an important role in the dynamics of magnetized flows such as the interstellar medium (ISM). In weakly ionised medium, their propagation critically depends on the ionisation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 P. Hennebelle , U. Lebreuilly

M dwarf's atmosphere and wind is expected to be highly magnetized. The nonlinear propagation of Alfv\'en wave could play a key role in both heating the stellar atmosphere and driving the stellar wind. Along this Alfv\'en wave scenario, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

The aim of the present study is to shed light on the effects connected with thermal misbalance due to non-equal cooling and heating rates induced by density and temperature perturbations in solar active regions hosting either propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 S. A. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich

Turbulence is a phenomenon found throughout space and astrophysical plasmas. It plays an important role in solar coronal heating, acceleration of the solar wind, and heating of the interstellar medium. Turbulence in these regimes is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Drake , J. W. R. Schroeder , G. G. Howes , C. A. Kletzing , F. Skiff , T. A. Carter , D. W. Auerbach

Context. Large-amplitude inversions of the solar wind's interplanetary magnetic field have long been documented; however, observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission have renewed interest in this phenomenon as such features,…

The Alfv\'en wave (AW) is the most common fluctuation present within the emitted solar wind from the Sun. Moreover, the interaction between interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) and high-speed stream (HSS) has been observed on several…

Parametric instability of Alfv\'en wave packets with monochromatic carrier wave in low-$\beta$ plasma is studied using one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The results show spatial growth of incoming perturbations as they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 S. S Komissarov

This paper is devoted to the study of the gravitational instability of a medium permeated by a uniform magnetic field along which a circularly polarized Alfven wave propagates. We concentrate on the case of perturbations purely transverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adriana Gazol , Thierry Passot

The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

In the presence of the primordial magnetic field, initial vector (vorticity) perturbations produce cosmological Alfven waves and leave imprints on cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky

Using self-consistent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we explore the hypothesis that nonlinear MHD waves dominate the internal dynamics of galactic molecular clouds. We employ an isothermal equation of state and allow for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Charles F. Gammie , Eve C. Ostriker

Observations of stellar rotation show that low-mass stars lose angular momentum during the main sequence. We simulate the winds of Sun-like stars with a range of rotation rates, covering the fast and slow magneto-rotator regimes, including…

Our study investigates the properties of Alfv\'en waves in partially ionised solar plasmas in the presence of steady, field-aligned, flows of charged and neutral particles. Our work aims to understand how such flows modify wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Nada F. Alshehri , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun , Gary Verth

The mixture/interaction of anti-sunward-propagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations (AFs) and sunward-propagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations (SAFs) is believed to result in the decrease of the Alfv\'enicity of solar wind fluctuations with increasing…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 H. Li , C. Wang , J. W. Belcher , J. S. He , J. D. Richardson