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The origins of the hot solar corona and the supersonically expanding solar wind are still the subject of debate. A key obstacle in the way of producing realistic simulations of the Sun-heliosphere system is the lack of a physically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Steven R. Cranmer

Current analytical and numerical modelling suggest the existence of ubiquitous thin current sheets in the corona that could explain the observed heating requirements. On the other hand, new high resolution observations of the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Antolin , T. Yokoyama , T. Van Doorsselaere

We use images of high spatial and temporal resolution, obtained using both ground- and space-based instrumentation, to investigate the role magnetic field inclination angles play in the propagation characteristics of running penumbral waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. B. Jess , V. E. Reznikova , T. Van Doorsselaere , P. H. Keys , D. H. Mackay

We use the first publically available data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) to track magnetic connections from the solar photosphere into the corona. We scrutinize relationships between chromospheric magnetism and bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Roberto Casini , Alfred de Wijn , Tom Schad , Alexandra Tritschler

Solar magnetized "tornadoes", a phenomenon discovered in the solar atmosphere, appear as tornado-like structures in the corona but root in the photosphere. Like other solar phenomena, solar tornadoes are a feature of magnetized plasma and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yang Su , Tongjiang Wang , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

With the adaptation of the FLASH code we simulate magnetohydrodynamic-gravity waves and vortices as well as their response in the magnetized three-dimensional (3D) solar atmosphere at different heights to understand the localized energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Murawski , I. Ballai , A. K. Srivastava , D. Lee

Recently using Particle-In-Cell simulations i.e. in the kinetic plasma description Tsiklauri et al. and G\'enot et al. reported on a discovery of a new mechanism of parallel electric field generation, which results in electron acceleration.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) waves have been found for about 15 years. However, significant controversy remains over their physical natures and origins. In this paper, we report an EUV wave that was accompanied by an X1.9 flare and a partial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuandeng Shen , Yu Liu

Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be caused by stresses, twists, and tangles in coronal magnetic fields that build up energy and ultimately erupt, hurling plasma into…

We present numerical magnetohydrostatic solutions describing the gravitationally stratified, bulk equilibrium of cool, dense prominence plasma embedded in a near-potential coronal field. These solutions are calculated using the FINESSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 G. J. D. Petrie , J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens

Magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of magnetic field topology, is a fundamental physical process in magnetized plasma systems all over the universe1,2. Its process is difficult to be directly observed. Coronal structures, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Eric Priest , Huadong Chen , Lijia Guo , Feng Chen , Duncan Mackay

Alfv\'enic waves have been proposed as an important energy transport mechanism in coronal loops, capable of delivering energy to both the corona and chromosphere and giving rise to many observed features, of flaring and quiescent regions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jeffrey W. Reep , Alexander J. B. Russell , Lucas A. Tarr , James E. Leake

The corona of the Sun is dominated by emission from loop-like structures. When observed in X-ray or extreme ultraviolet emission, these million K hot coronal loops show a more or less constant cross section. In this study we show how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Peter , S. Bingert

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 investigate non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) effects in the chromosphere on the solar wind by performing MHD simulations for Alfv\'en-wave driven winds with explicitly including Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion. We find that MHD waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Masato Matsuoka , Takeru K. Suzuki , Takato Tokuno , Kensuke Kakiuchi

We present observational evidence for the presence of MHD waves in the solar photosphere deduced from SOHO/MDI Dopplergram velocity observations. The magneto-acoustic perturbations are observed as acoustic power enhancement in the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 S. Zharkov , S. Shelyag , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi , M. J. Thompson

This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coronal Alfv\'en speed to be of two orders of magnitude lesser.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Avijeet Prasad , Bhuwan Joshi , Qiang Hu

We describe the presence of wavefront dislocations in magnetohydrodynamic waves in stratified stellar atmospheres. Scalar dislocations such as edges and vortices can appear in Alfv\'en waves, as well as in general magneto-acoustic waves. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. López Ariste , M. Collados , E. Khomenko