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In the solar atmosphere, Alfv\'en waves are believed to play an important role in the transfer of energy from the photosphere to the corona and solar wind, and in the heating of the chromosphere. We perform numerical computations to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

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 transition region is a thin inhomogeneous region where Alfven waves' energy fluxes generated elsewhere in the solar atmosphere are effectively converted. Large-scale kinetic Alfven wave propagations, transmission, and reflection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Petko Nenovski

Kinetic Alfv\'en waves represent an important subject in space plasma physics, since they are thought to play a crucial role in the development of the turbulent energy cascade in the solar wind plasma at short wavelengths (of the order of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. L. Vasconez , F. Valentini , E. Camporeale , P. Veltri

Solar flares are dramatic events in which magnetic reconnection in the corona leads to heating of plasma to tens of MK and acceleration of particles to high energies. They also centrally involve transport between the corona (where the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Alexander J. B. Russell

The k-filtering technique and wave polarization analysis are applied to Cluster magnetic field data to study plasma turbulence at the scale of the ion gyroradius in the fast solar wind. Waves are found propagating in directions nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Owen W. Roberts , Xing Li , Bo Li

An isolated, isothermal, and wide magnetic flux tube embedded either in the solar chromosphere or in the lower solar corona is considered, and the propagation of linear torsional Alfv'en waves is investigated. It is shown that the wideness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Swati Routh , Z. E. Musielak , M. N. Sundar , Sai Sravanthi Joshi , Sree Charan

We present an one-dimensional numerical study of Alfven waves propagating along a radial magnetic field. Neglecting losses, any spherical Alfven wave, no matter how small its initial amplitude is, becomes nonlinear at sufficiently large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ulf Torkelsson , G. Christopher Boynton

We solve numerically the ideal MHD equations with an external gravitational field in 2D in order to study the effects of impulsively generated linear and non-linear Alfv\'en waves into isolated solar arcades and coronal funnels. We analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , F. S. Guzman

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated Alfv\'en waves in an isolated solar arcade, which is gravitationally stratified and magnetically confined. We study numerically the propagation of Alfv\'en waves along such magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chmielewski , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava

Three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetoacoustic wave propagation are performed in a sunspot atmosphere with a computational domain covering from the photosphere to the chromosphere. The wave source, with properties resembling the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-21 T. Felipe , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

We perform magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the propagation of Alfven wave in magnetic chromosphere. We use the 1.5-dimensional expanding flux tube geometry setting and transverse perturbation at the bottom to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama

Pulsars radiate radio signals when they rotate. However, some old pulsars often stop radiating for some periods. The underlying mechanism remains unknown, while the magnetosphere during nulling phases is hard to probe due to the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 X. Chen , Y. Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , W. C. Jing , K. J. Lee , B. Zhang , R. X. Xu , T. Wang , Z. L. Yang , W. Q. Su , N. N. Cai , W. Y. Wang , G. J. Qiao , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou

We investigate the electromagnetic interaction of a relativistic stellar wind with small bodies in orbit around the star. Based on our work on the theory of Alfv\'en wings to relativistic winds presented in a companion paper, we estimate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabrice Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

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

Alfv\'enic motions are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and their observed properties are closely linked to those of photospheric p-modes. However, it is still unclear how a predominantly acoustic wave driver can produce these transverse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Samuel Skirvin , Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Fusion-born alpha particles in ITER disruption simulations are investigated as a possible drive of Alfv\'enic instabilities. The ability of these waves to expel runaway electron (RE) seed particles is explored in the pursuit of a passive,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Andrej Lier , Gergely Papp , Philipp Lauber , Ola Embreus , George Wilkie , Stefanie Braun

At the end of their birth process, neutron stars can be subject to a magnetorotational instability in which a conversion of kinetic energy of differential rotation into radiation and kinetic energies is expected to occur at the Alfv\'en…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 Ricardo Heras

Recently it was found that helical magnetized flows efficiently amplify Alfv\'en waves (Rogava et al. 2003, A&A, v.399, p.421). This robust and manifold nonmodal effect was found to involve regimes of transient algebraic growth (for purely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andria Rogava , Gianluigi Bodo , Silvano Massalgia , Zaza Osmanov

Strong magnetic fields in the cores of stars are expected to significantly modify the behavior of gravity waves: this is likely the origin of suppressed dipole modes observed in many red giants. However, a detailed understanding of how such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Nicholas Z. Rui , Jim Fuller