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In this work, we simulate the evolution of the solar wind along its main sequence lifetime and compute its thermal radio emission. To study the evolution of the solar wind, we use a sample of solar mass stars at different ages. All these…

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Probing the solar corona is crucial to study the coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. However, the transient and inhomogeneous solar wind flows carry large-amplitude inherent Alfven waves and turbulence, which make detection more…

A Martian semiannual oscillation (SAO), similar to that in the Earth's tropical stratosphere, is evident in the Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation reanalysis dataset (MACDA) version 1.0, not only in the tropics, but also extending…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Tao Ruan , Neil T. Lewis , Stephen R. Lewis , Luca Montabone , Peter L. Read

Ground-based measurements of frozen precipitation are heavily influenced by interactions of surface winds with gauge-shield geometry. The Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC), which photographs hydrometeors in free-fall from three different…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Kyle E. Fitch , Chaoxun Hang , Ahmad Talaei , Timothy J. Garrett

Small-scale magnetic flux ropes (SFRs), in the solar wind, have been studied for decades. Statistical analysis utilizing various in situ spacecraft measurements is the main observational approach which helps investigate the generation and…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Yu Chen , Qiang Hu

Observation of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) provides an important and effective way to study the solar wind and the space weather. A series of IPS observations were conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio…

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The solar wind conditions at one astronomical unit (AU) can be strongly disturbed by the interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). A subset, called magnetic clouds (MCs), is formed by twisted flux ropes that transport an important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Dasso , M. S. Nakwacki , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini

A current sheet (CS) is the central structure in the disrupting magnetic configuration during solar eruptions. More than 90\% of the free magnetic energy (the difference between the energy in the non-potential magnetic field and that in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Yuhao Chen , Zhong Liu , Pengfei Chen , David F. Webb , Qi Hao , Jialiang Hu , Guanchong Cheng , Zhixing Mei , Jing Ye , Qian Wang , Jun Lin

Wind-driven outflows are observed around a broad range of accreting objects throughout the Universe, ranging from forming low-mass stars to super-massive black holes. We study the interaction between a central isotropic wind and an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Lichen Liang , Doug Johnstone , Sylvie Cabrit , Lars E. Kristensen

The probability distributions (PDFs) of the differences of any physical variable in the intermittent, turbulent interplanetary medium are scale dependent. Strong non-Gaussianity of solar wind fluctuations applies for short time-lag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. P. Leubner , Z. Voros

Past observations show that solar wind (SW) acceleration occurs inside the sub-Alfvenic region, reaching the local Alfven speed at typical distances ~ 10 - 20 Rs (solar radii). Recently, Parker Solar Probe (PSP) traversed regions of…

Feedback from Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) is an important driver of galaxy evolution. In the first few Myr, mechanical feedback is dominated by collective effects of the massive stellar winds in the YMC. The mass-loss rates and terminal…

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(abreviated) We aim to study the inner-wind structure (R<250 Rstar) of the well-known red supergiant VY CMa. We analyse high spatial resolution (~0".24x0".13) ALMA Science Verification (SV) data in band 7 in which four thermal emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 L. Decin , A. M. S. Richards , T. J. Millar , A. Baudry , E. De Beck , W. Homan , N. Smith , M. Van de Sande , C. Walsh

We investigate a class of ion-scale magnetic solitary structures in the solar wind, characterized by distinct magnetic field enhancements and bipolar rotations over spatial scales of several proton inertial lengths. These structures are…

The first estimation of the incompressible energy cascade rate at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scales is obtained in the plasma upstream of the Martian bow shock, using MAVEN observations and an exact relation derived for MHD turbulence. The…

Solar wind measurements carried out by NASA's Wind spacecraft before, during and after the passing of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) detected on 12-14 September 2014 have been used in order to examine several properties of…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Roque Márquez Rodríguez , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Emiliya Yordanova

The density fluctuation spectrum in the solar wind reveals a Kolmogorov-like scaling with a spectral slope of -5/3 in wavenumber space. The energy transfer process in the magnetized solar wind, characterized typically by MHD turbulence,…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

An extensive analysis of Ulysses observations of the solar wind speed V from 1990 to 2008 is undertaken. It is shown that the evolution of V with heliocentric distance r depends substantially on both the heliolatitude and the solar activity…

Switchbacks (SBs) are localized structures in the solar wind containing deflections of the magnetic field direction relative to the background solar wind magnetic field. The amplitudes of the magnetic field deflection angles for different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 O. V. Agapitov , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak , K. -E. Choi , N. Raouafi