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The chromosphere of the quiet Sun is a highly intermittent and dynamic phenomenon. Three-dimensional radiation (magneto-)hydrodynamic simulations exhibit a mesh-like pattern of hot shock fronts and cool expanding post-shock regions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Friedrich Wöger

The relative motion of two interpenetrating streams of charged particles usually leads to the generation of two stream instability (TSI) and eventually result in the onset of non-linear plasma processes such as the turbulence or the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Vipin K. Yadav , Abhinav Singh , Rajneesh Kumar

A 2-D Riemann problem is designed to study the development and dynamics of the slow shocks that are thought to form at the boundaries of reconnection exhausts. Simulations are carried out for varying ratios of normal magnetic field to the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi-Hsin Liu , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

This paper reviews the current state of our understanding of high-speed solar wind acceleration in coronal holes. Observations by SOHO, coupled with interplanetary particle measurements going back several decades, have put strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer

We discuss the detection and evolution of a complex series of transient and quasi-static solar wind structures in the days following the well-known comet 2P / Encke tail disconnection event in April 2007. The evolution of transient solar…

The analysis of energy balance of coronal holes gives that to accelerate the fast solar wind streams the energy flux of the order of 800 erg/cm$^2$ s is needed. Axford and McKenzie suggested that the energy source, necessary to accelerate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Sadovski

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process converting magnetic energy into not only plasma energy but also particle energy in various astrophysical phenomena. In this letter, we show a unique dataset of a solar flare where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Lei Lu , Li Feng , Alexander Warmuth , Astrid M. Veronig , Jing Huang , Siming Liu , Weiqun Gan , Zongjun Ning , Beili Ying , Guannan Gao

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in various astrophysical, space, and laboratory environments. Many pieces of evidence for magnetic reconnection have been uncovered. However, its specific processes that could be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 X. Cheng , Y. Li , L. F. Wan , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen , J. Zhang , J. J. Liu

Models for the origin of the slow solar wind must account for two seemingly contradictory observations: The slow wind has the composition of the closed field corona, implying that it originates from the continuous opening and closing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. K. Antiochos , Z. Mikić , V. S. Titov , R. Lionello , J. A. Linker

Relaxations of localized over-density in a plane transverse to the magnetic field are numericallyinvestigated under the effect of drift-wave and interchange drives in SOL conditions. Such a controlleddeparture from thermodynamic equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 R Varennes , G Dif-Pradalier , P Ghendrih , V Grandgirard , O Panico , Y Sarazin , E Serre , D Zarzoso

Solar eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections and eruptive flares are frequently associated with the emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona. We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 James Leake , Mark Linton , Spiro Antiochos

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

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

We study the physical properties and behavior of the solar atmosphere during the GOES X1.6 solar flare on 2014 September 10. The steady plasma flows and the fast sausage MHD waves were analysed with the wavelet separation method. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hana Meszarosova , Peter Gomory

We present a new model for time evolution of fast magnetic reconnection in free space, which is characterized by self-similarity. Reconnection triggered by locally enhanced resistivity assumed at the center of the current sheet can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Nitta , S. Tanuma , K. Shibata , K. Maezawa

The highly dynamical, complex nature of the solar atmosphere naturally implies the presence of waves in a topologically varied magnetic environment. Here, the interaction of waves with topological features such as null points is inevitable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Threlfall , C. E. Parnell , I. De Moortel , K. G. McClements , T. D. Arber

Recently, we correlated the inferred structure of the solar chromospheric plasma topography with solar wind velocity and composition data measured at 1AU. We now offer a physical justification of these relationships and present initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert J. Leamon , Scott W. McIntosh

Magnetic reconnection in an antiparallel uniform Harris current sheet equilibrium, which is initially perturbed by a region of enhanced resistivity limited in all three dimensions, is investigated through compressible magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joerg Schumacher , Bernhard Kliem , Norbert Seehafer

The solar wind emanates from the hot and tenuous solar corona. Earlier studies using 1.5 dimensional simulations show that Alfv\'{e}n waves generated in the photosphere play an important role in coronal heating through the process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takuma Matsumoto , Takeru Ken Suzuki

Efforts to understand unusual weather or abrupt changes in climate have been plagued by deficiencies of the standard solar model (SSM). While it assumes that our primary source of energy began as a homogeneous ball of hydrogen (H) with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Manuel , B. W. Ninham , S. E. Friberg