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The effect of temperature inhomogeneity on the periods, their ratios (fundamental vs. first overtone), and the damping times of the standing slow modes in gravitationally stratified solar coronal loops are studied. The effects of optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Abedini , H. Safari , S. Nasiri

Aims: We quantify the effects of twisted magnetic fields on the development of the magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in transversely oscillating coronal loops. Methods: We modelled a fundamental standing kink mode in a straight,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin

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

We present a model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the extended solar corona that contains the effects of collisionless dissipation and anisotropic particle heating. Measurements made by UVCS/SOHO have revived interest in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. R. Cranmer , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Context. Transverse oscillations are ubiquitously observed in the solar corona, both in coronal loops and open magnetic flux tubes. Numerical simulations suggest that their dissipation could heat coronal loops, counterbalancing radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Gabriel Pelouze , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas , Julia M. Riedl , Timothy Duckenfield

We performed 2.5D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations showing the propagation of fast-mode MHD waves of different initial amplitudes and their interaction with a coronal hole (CH), using our newly developed numerical code. We find that…

There are observational evidences for the existence of twisted magnetic field in the solar corona. This inspires us to investigate the effect of a twisted magnetic field on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami , Roberto Soler

Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planetary system more than a decade ago, hundreds more have been discovered. Surprisingly, many of these systems harbor Jupiter-class gas giants located close to the central star, at distances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , S. H. Saar , I. V. Sokolov , W. B. Manchester , K. C. Hansen , T. I. Gombosi

The coronal heating problem remains a fundamental challenge in solar physics. While AWSoM-type models (Alfv\'en Wave Solar Model) have proven highly successful in reproducing the large-scale structure of the solar corona, they inherently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 M. McMurdo , T. Van Doorsselaere , N. Magyar , L. Banovic , D. Lim

Elemental abundances in the solar corona differ from those in the photosphere, with low first ionization potential (FIP) elements being enhanced, a phenomenon known as the FIP effect. This enhancement is attributed to ponderomotive forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Kyoung-Sun Lee , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Kyuhyoun Cho , Kyeore Lee , Juhyung Kang , Eun-Kyung Lim , Donguk Song

We explore the suggestions by Uzdensky (2007) and Cassak et al. (2008) that coronal loops heated by magnetic reconnection should self-organize to a state of marginal collisionality. We discuss their model of coronal loop dynamics with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Imada , E. G. Zweibel

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

In this paper, we show a "proof of concept" of the heating mechanism of the solar chromosphere due to wave dissipation caused by the effects of partial ionization. Numerical modeling of non-linear wave propagation in a magnetic flux tube,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 S. Shelyag , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente , D. Przybylski

Rapidly decaying long-period oscillations often occur in hot coronal loops of active regions associated with small (or micro-) flares. This kind of wave activity was first discovered with the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer from Doppler velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Ding Yuan , Fabio Reale , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Abhishek K. Srivastava

Coronal rain consists of cool and dense plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. Previous numerical simulations of thermal instability and coronal rain formation have relied on artificially adding a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , A. Popovas , M. Szydlarski , V. H. Hansteen

The Parker hypothesis (Parker (1972)) assumes that heating of coronal loops occurs due to reconnection, induced when photospheric motions braid field lines to the point of current sheet formation. In this contribution we address the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 M. L. Ritchie , A. L. Wilmot-Smith , G. Hornig

Oscillations are abundant in the solar corona. Coronal loop oscillations are typically studied using highly idealised models of magnetic flux tubes. In order to improve our understanding of coronal oscillations, it is necessary to consider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , M. Szydlarski , M. Carlsson

There is ample evidence of twisted magnetic structures in the solar corona. This motivates us to consider the magnetic twist as the cause of Alfven frequency continuum in the coronal loops, which can support the resonant absorption as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami

Coronal heating refers to the physical processes that shape and structure the corona of the Sun and are responsible for its multi-million Kelvin temperatures. These processes are revealed in a number of different observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Iñigo Arregui , Tom Van Doorsselaere

In solving the solar coronal heating problem, it is crucial to comprehend the mechanisms by which energy is conveyed from the photosphere to the corona. Recently, magnetic tornadoes, characterized as coherent, rotating magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hidetaka Kuniyoshi , Munehito Shoda , Haruhisa Iijima , Takaaki Yokoyama