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Magneto-atmospheres with Alfv\'en speed [a] that increases monotonically with height are often used to model the solar atmosphere, at least out to several solar radii. A common example involves uniform vertical or inclined magnetic field in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. S. Cally

Alfv\'en waves are known to be important carriers of magnetic energy that could play a role in coronal heating and/or solar wind acceleration. As these waves are efficient energy carriers, how they are dissipated still remains one of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Anmol Kumar , Thomas A. Howson , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

A simple collisional three-component plasma model consisting of electrons, ions, and neutrals with arbitrary collision frequencies and dynamic time scales is considered. It is shown that the usual MHD-approach dealing with magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

In a collisionless, magnetized plasma, particles may stream freely along magnetic-field lines, leading to phase "mixing" of their distribution function and consequently to smoothing out of any "compressive" fluctuations (of density,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Romain Meyrand , Anjor Kanekar , William Dorland , Alexander A. Schekochihin

The overshooting convective motions in the solar photosphere are frequently proposed as the source for the excitation of Alfv\'en waves. However, the photosphere is a) very weakly ionized, and, b) the dynamics of the plasma particles in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts , B. P. Pandey , B. De Pontieu

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Particle-In-Cell (kinetic) simulations of shear Alfv\'en wave interaction with one dimensional, across the uniform magnetic field, density inhomogeneity (phase mixing) in collisionless plasma were performed for the first time. As a result a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

The Weibel/filamentation instability is known to play a key role in the physics of weakly magnetized collisionless shock waves. From the point of view of high energy astrophysics, this instability also plays a crucial role because its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Martin Lemoine

Collisionless dissipation of turbulence is important for heating plasmas in astrophysical, space physics, and laboratory environments, controlling energy, momentum and particle transport. We analyze Parker Solar Probe observations to…

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are observed in various systems in space and laboratories, demonstrating an interesting property that the wave shapes are stable even in the nonlinear regime. The ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Zensho Yoshida

We suggest a mechanism of energy transformation from fast magnetosonic waves propagating across a magnetic field to Alfv{\'e}n waves propagating along the field. The mechanism is based on {\it swing wave-wave interaction} [T.V.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. v. Zaqarashvili , B. Roberts

Alfv\'enic-type turbulence in strongly magnetized, low-beta pair plasmas is investigated. A coupled set of equations for the evolution of the magnetic and flow potentials are derived, covering both fluid and kinetic scales. In the fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 N. F. Loureiro , S. Boldyrev

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

Measurements and simulations of inertial compressive turbulence in the solar wind are characterized by anti-correlated magnetic fluctuations parallel to the mean field and density structures. This signature has been interpreted as…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Trevor A. Bowen , Samuel Badman , Petr Hellinger , Stuart D. Bale

Alfvenic waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and their dissipation may play an important role in atmospheric heating. In the partially ionized solar chromosphere, collisions between ions and neutrals are an efficient dissipative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 R. Soler , J. L. Ballester , T. V. Zaqarashvili

Alfv\'{e}n wave collisions are the primary building blocks of the non-relativistic turbulence that permeates the heliosphere and low-to-moderate energy astrophysical systems. However, many astrophysical systems such as gamma-ray bursts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-24 J. M. TenBarge , B. Ripperda , A. Chernoglazov , A. Bhattacharjee , J. F. Mahlmann , E. R. Most , J. Juno , Y. Yuan , A. A. Philippov

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

Weak Alfvenic turbulence in a periodic domain is considered as a mixed state of Alfven waves interacting with the two-dimensional (2D) condensate. Unlike in standard treatments, no spectral continuity between the two is assumed and indeed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. V. Nazarenko , T. A. Yousef

Aims. To determine the effect of the Hall term in the generalised Ohm's law on the damping and phase mixing of Alfven waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies in uniform and non-uniform equilibrium plasmas. Methods. Wave damping in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. W. Threlfall , K. G. McClements , I. De Moortel