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Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

The linear MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an anisotropic plasma concerning the direction of an external magnetic field is examined in detail. For this purpose, the MHD equations are used to describe the motion of plasma as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 N. S. Dzhalilov , R. Ismayilli

We present three-dimensional, hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations of driven Alfv\'{e}n-wave turbulence of relevance to the collisionless near-Earth solar wind. Special attention is paid to the spectral transition that occurs near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Eliot Quataert

Hard X-ray (HXR) sources are frequently observed near the top of solar flare loops, and the emission is widely ascribed to bremsstrahlung. We here revisit an alternative scenario which stresses the importance of inverse Compton processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Wenzhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Context. Structuring in the solar atmosphere, in the form of inhomogeneities transverse to the magnetic field, is believed to play a vital role in wave propagation, conversion, and absorption. Aims. We investigated the effect of transverse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-05 Samuel Skirvin , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Aims: To study the presence of superoscillations in coronal magnetoacoustic waves and its possible role in heating coronal loops through the strong and localized gradients they generate on the wave. Methods: An analytic model is built for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 A. López Ariste , M. Facchin

In this work, we report our multi-wavelength observations of the transverse oscillation of a large scale coronal loop with a length of 350 Mm. The oscillation was induced by a blowout coronal jet, which was related to a circular ribbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 J. Dai , Q. M. Zhang , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji

This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave interactions transfer energy to high-frequency fast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Transverse MHD waves permeate the solar atmosphere and are a candidate for coronal heating. However, the origin of these waves is still unclear. In this work, we analyse coordinated observations from \textit{Hinode}/SOT and \textit{IRIS} of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Patrick Antolin , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

The relatively large-amplitude decaying regime of transverse oscillations of coronal loops has been known for two decades and interpreted in terms of MHD kink modes of cylindrical plasma waveguides. Recent observational analysis has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 A. N. Afanasyev , T. Van Doorsselaere , V. M. Nakariakov

Corrected analytical solutions describing the enhanced phase mixing of Alfven waves propagating in divergent stratified coronal structures are presented. These show that the enhanced phase mixing mechanism can dissipate Alfven waves at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-22 P. D. Smith , D. Tsiklauri , M. S. Ruderman

We investigate several key questions of plasma heating in open-field regions of the corona that connect to the solar wind. We present results for a model of Alfven-wave-driven turbulence for three typical open magnetic field structures: a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Lauren N. Woolsey , Steven R. Cranmer

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

Solar wind ions are observed to be heated in the directions perpendicular to the large-scale magnetic field, with preferential heating given to heavy ions. In the solar corona, this heating may be responsible for the generation of the wind…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Philip A. Isenberg , Bernard J. Vasquez

We present a method to assess the plausibility of alternative mechanisms to explain the damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) transverse waves in solar coronal loops. The considered mechanisms are resonant absorption of kink waves in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 M. Montes-Solís , I. Arregui

Between the base of the solar corona and the Alfven critical point, the solar-wind density decreases by approximately five orders of magnitude, but the temperature varies by a factor of only a few. In this paper, I show that such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Two of the central problems in our understanding of the solar chromosphere are how the upper chromosphere is heated and what drives spicules. Estimates of the required chromospheric heating, based on radiative and conductive losses suggest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 C. S. Brady , T. D. Arber

Extreme-ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory often show looplike fine structure to be present where no minority-polarity flux is visible in magnetograms, suggesting that the rate of ephemeral region (ER) emergence inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. -M. Wang

We have performed MHD simulations of Alfven wave propagation along an open flux tube in the solar atmosphere. In our numerical model, Alfven waves are generated by the photospheric granular motion. As the wave generator, we used a derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Takuma Matsumoto , Kazunari Shibata