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Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta

During Parker Solar Probe's first orbit, the solar wind plasma has been observed in situ closer than ever before, the perihelion on November 6th 2018 revealing a flow that is constantly permeated by large amplitude Alfv\'enic fluctuations.…

In-situ observations of the solar wind (SW) plasma from 0.29 to 1AU show that the protons and alpha particles are often non-Maxwellian, with evidence of kinetic instabilities, temperature anisotropies, differential ion streaming, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Leon Ofman

The instrumental advances made in this new era of 4-meter class solar telescopes with unmatched spectropolarimetric accuracy and sensitivity, will enable the study of chromospheric magnetic fields and their dynamics with unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 M. Stangalini , D. Baker , G. Valori , D. B. Jess , S. Jafarzadeh , M. Murabito , A. S. H. To , D. H. Brooks , I. Ermolli , F. Giorgi , C. D. MacBride

Results of forward modelling of acoustic wave propagation in a realistic solar sub-photosphere with two cases of steady horizontal flows are presented and analysed by the means of local helioseismology. The simulations are based on fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Shelyag , R. Erdelyi , M. J. Thompson

Acoustic waves are one of the primary suspects besides magnetic fields for the chromospheric heating process to temperatures above radiative equilibrium (RE). We derived the mechanical wave energy as seen in line-core velocities to obtain a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Beck , E. Khomenko , R. Rezaei , M. Collados

We carry out two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of an ensemble of Alfv\'enic fluctuations propagating in a structured, expanding solar wind including the presence of fast and slow solar wind streams. Using an appropriate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani , Franco Rappazzo , Victor Réville

Alfv\'enic fluctuations are very common features in the solar wind and are found especially within the main portion of fast wind streams while the slow wind usually is less Alfv\'enic and more variable. In general, fast and slow wind show…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Raffaella D'Amicis , Lorenzo Matteini , Roberto Bruno

(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

We used long duration, high quality, unresolved (Sun-as-a star) observations collected by the ground based network BiSON and by the instruments GOLF and VIRGO on board the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite to search for solar-cycle-related changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 R. Simoniello , W. Finsterle , R. A. Garcia , D. Salabert , A. Jimenez , Y. Elsworth , H. Schunker

The extended solar corona at 10-30 solar radii is essentially devoid of all waves below 100 kHz other than triggered ion acoustic waves (TIAW), which consist of a low frequency electromagnetic wave at a frequency of a few Hz coupled to one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Forrest Mozer , Oleksiy Agapitov , Orlando Romeo , Vadim Roytershteyn , Andrii Voshchepynets

Macrospicules are relatively large spicule-like formations found mainly over the polar coronal holes when observing in the transition region spectral lines. In this study, we took advantage of the two short series of observations in the He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 I. P. Loboda , S. A. Bogachev

Solar five-minute oscillations have been detected in the power spectra of two six-day time intervals from soft X-ray measurements of the Sun observed as a star using the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer (ESP) onboard the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Leonid Didkovsky , Alexander Kosovichev , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) can occur when there is a relative motion between two adjacent fluids. In the case of magnetized plasma, the shear velocity must exceed the local Alfv\'{e}n speed for the instability to develop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Olga Khabarova , Ryun-Yong Kwon , Yogesh , Eyal Heifetz , Katariina Nykyri

This paper presents the analysis of 3D evolution of solar wind density turbulence and speed at various levels of solar activity between solar cycles 22 and 24. The solar wind data has been obtained from interplanetary scintillation (IPS)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. K. Manoharan

The results of a climatological study of ionospheric disturbances derived from observations of cosmic sources from the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) are presented. We have used the ionospheric corrections applied to…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. F. Helmboldt , W. M. Lane , W. D. Cotton

Oscillations were observed across the whole solar disk using the Doppler shift and line depth of spectral lines from the CO molecule near 4666~nm with the National Solar Observatory's McMath/Pierce solar telescope. Power, coherence, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew Penn , Tom Schad , Erin Cox

The scaling of the turbulent spectra provides a key measurement that allows to discriminate between different theoretical predictions of turbulence. In the solar wind, this has driven a large number of studies dedicated to this issue using…

Propagating (intensity) disturbances (PDs) are well reported in observations of coronal loops and polar plumes in addition to recent links with co-temporal spicule activity in the solar atmosphere. However, despite being reported in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Samuel Skirvin , Tanmoy Samanta , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Recent studies about collisionless shocks in partially ionized plasmas showed that some of neutral particles leak into the shock upstream region from the downstream region. In this paper, we perform a linear analysis and show that acoustic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yutaka Ohira