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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

It is now well established that the Alfv\'enic waves are ubiquitous in the solar corona. However, the Alfv\'enic wave energy estimated from the Doppler velocity measurements in the corona was found to be four orders of magnitude less than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vaibhav Pant , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Richard J. Morton

In the present work, we test the predictions of the AWSoM model, a global extended-MHD model capable of calculating the propagation and turbulent dissipation of Alfv\'en waves in any magnetic topology, against high resolution spectra of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-06 R. Oran , E. Landi , B. van der Holst , I. V. Sokolov , T. I. Gombosi

The generation of nonthermal electrons during solar flares plays a critical role in energy transport from the corona to the chromosphere, producing regions of observed intense X-ray emission. Turbulence in post-flare loops, particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Clarissa Mora , Fabio Bacchini , Rony Keppens

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 a comprehensive model of the global properties of Alfven waves in the solar atmosphere and fast solar wind. Linear non-WKB wave transport equations are solved from the photosphere to 4 AU, and for wave periods ranging from 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. R. Cranmer , A. A. van Ballegooijen

The cross sections of solar coronal loops are suggested to be rarely circular. We examine linear kink oscillations in straight, density-enhanced, magnetic cylinders with elliptical cross-sections by solving the three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Mingzhe Guo , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere

(abridged) We investigate how the properties of the corona and solar wind in the open coronal holes depend on the properties of the magnetic fields and their footpoint motions at the surface, by perfoming 1D MHD simulations from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

This work is an extension of Kaghashvili [1999] where ion-cyclotron wave dissipation channel for Alfv\'en waves was discussed. While our earlier study dealt with the mode coupling in the commonly discussed sense, here we study changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-10 Edisher Kh. Kaghashvili

In the present review article, we discuss the recent developments in studying the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in various solar magnetic structures. The main description is on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Zhelyazkov

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

In space plasmas, large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves can drive compressive perturbations, accelerate ion beams, and lead to plasma heating and the excitation of ion acoustic waves at kinetic scales. This energy channelling from fluid to kinetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Terry Z. Liu , Ivan Vasko , David Malaspina

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu

There is observational evidence of the presence of small-amplitude transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves with a wide range of frequencies in the threads of solar prominences. It is believed that the waves are driven at the photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Llorenc Melis , Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester

Low-frequency Alfven-wave turbulence causes ion trajectories to become chaotic, or "stochastic," when the turbulence amplitude is sufficiently large. Stochastic orbits enable ions to absorb energy from the turbulence, increasing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Magnetohydrodynamic waves are believed to play a significant role in coronal heating, and could be used for remote diagnostics of solar plasma. Both the heating and diagnostic applications rely on a correct inversion (or backward modelling)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ding Yuan , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We investigate intensity variations and energy deposition in five coronal loops in active region cores. These were selected for their strong variability in the AIA/SDO 94 {\AA} intensity channel. We isolate the hot Fe XVIII and Fe XXI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. C. Cadavid , J. K. Lawrence , D. J. Christian , D. B. Jess , G. Nigro

In this Letter we establish clear evidence for the resonant absorption damping mechanism by analyzing observational data from the novel Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP). This instrument has established that in the solar corona there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Verth , M. Goossens , J. Terradas

Alfv\'{e}n waves are believed to play an important role in the heating and acceleration of the fast solar wind emanating from coronal holes. Nonlinear interactions between the dominant ${\bf z}_{+}$ waves and minority ${\bf z}_{-}$ waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi