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Ideal MHD provides an accurate description of low-frequency Alfv\'en waves in fully ionized plasmas. However, higher frequency waves in many plasmas of the solar atmosphere cannot be correctly described by ideal MHD and a more accurate…

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Collisionless shocks play a key role in the heliosphere at planetary bow shocks by governing the conversion of the upstream bulk kinetic energy of the solar wind flow to other forms of energy in the downstream, including bulk plasma heat,…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Peter Montag , Gregory Howes , Daniel McGinnis , Arya Afshari , Michael Starkey , Mihir Desai

We theoretically investigate the interplay between magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and shear flows in a partially ionized solar plasma, focusing on the energy exchange mediated by the flow and the transformation between wave modes. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Miquel Cantallops , Roberto Soler

Context: Thermal conductivity provides important contributions to the energy evolution of the upper solar atmosphere, behaving as a non-linear concentration-dependent diffusion equation. Recently, different methods have been offered as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Mikolaj Szydlarski

The importance of the chromosphere in the mass and energy transport within the solar atmosphere is now widely recognised. This review discusses the physics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities in large-scale chromospheric…

Understanding the dynamics of the solar chromosphere is crucial to understanding energy transport across the solar atmosphere. The chromosphere is optically thick at many wavelengths and described by non-local thermodynamic equilibrium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jeffrey W. Reep , Stephen J. Bradshaw , Nicholas A. Crump , Harry P. Warren

In situ measurements of kinetic scale current sheets in the solar wind show that they are often approximately force-free although the plasma beta is of order one. They frequently display systematic asymmetric and anti-correlated spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Sophie Boswell , Thomas Neukirch , Anton Artemyev , Ivan Vasko , Oliver Allanson

We study how a high-speed solar wind stream embedded in a slow solar wind influences the spread of solar energetic protons in interplanetary space. To model the energetic protons, we used a recently developed particle transport code that…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Nicolas Wijsen , Angels Aran , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

The solar atmosphere is composed of many species which are populated at different ionization and excitation levels. The upper chromosphere, transition region, and corona are nearly collisionless. Consequently, slippage between, for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Juan Martínez-Sykora , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Viggo H. Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu

The solar wind (SW) is an outflow of the solar coronal plasma, expanding supersonically throughout the heliosphere. SW particles interact by charge exchange with interstellar neutral atoms and on one hand, they modify the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 C. Porowski , M. Bzowski , M. Tokumaru

Solar wind charge-changing reactions are of paramount importance to the physico-chemistry of the atmosphere of a comet, mass-loading the solar wind through an effective conversion of fast light solar wind ions into slow heavy cometary ions.…

This study covers a thorough statistical investigation of the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) with and without sheaths, through a broad heliocentric distance and temporal range. The analysis treats the sheath and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 C. Larrodera , M. Temmer

Various hydrodynamic models of the heliospheric interface have been presented meanwhile, numerically simulating the interaction of the solar wind plasma bubble with the counterstreaming partially ionized interstellar medium. In these model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. Fahr , M. Bzowski

Understanding the transport of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) from acceleration sites at the Sun into interplanetary space and to the Earth is an important question for forecasting space weather. The Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF),…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Markus Battarbee , Silvia Dalla , Mike S. Marsh

The characterisation of the atomic and molecular hydrogen content of high-redshift galaxies is a major observational challenge that will be addressed over the coming years with a new generation of radio telescopes. We investigate this…

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After the termination shock (TS) crossing, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has been observing strong variations of the magnetic field and solar wind parameters in the heliosheath. Anomalous cosmic rays, electrons, and galactic cosmic rays present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Provornikova , M. Opher , V. Izmodenov , G. Toth

Solar flares are explosive events in the solar corona, representing fast conversion of magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic energy, and hence radiation, due to magnetic reconnection. Modelling is essential for understanding and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , R. F. Pinto

Interchange reconnection is thought to play an important role in determining the dynamics and material composition of the slow solar wind that originates from near coronal hole boundaries. To explore the implications of this process we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Roger B. Scott , Stephen J. Bradshaw , Mark G. Linton

Space weather predictions are necessary to avoid damage caused by intense geomagnetic storms. Such strong storms are usually caused by a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) passing at Earth or by the arrival of strong coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tinatin Baratashvili , Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Fabio Bacchini , Rony Keppens , Stefaan Poedts

We present the implementation of a radiative transfer solver with coherent scattering in the new BIFROST code for radiative magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of stellar surface convection. The code is fully parallelized using MPI…

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