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Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been shown to be ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and can in principle carry sufficient energy to generate and maintain the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere or corona. However, direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Takenori J. Okamoto , Patrick Antolin , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

Poynting flux generated by random shuffling of photospheric magnetic footpoints is transferred through the upper atmosphere of the Sun where the plasma is heated to over 1 MK in the corona. High spatiotemporal resolution observations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. P. Chitta , M. van Noort , H. N. Smitha , E. R. Priest , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in the solar corona are often known to be produced by solar flares and eruptive prominences. We here simulate the effect of the interaction of an external perturbation on a magnetic null in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sripan Mondal , A. K. Srivastava , David I. Pontin , Eric R. Priest , R. Kwon , Ding Yuan

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

In this study, we investigate the spatial distribution of highly varying plasma composition around one of the largest sunspots of solar cycle 24. Observations of the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona are brought together with magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 D. Baker , M. Stangalini , G. Valori , D. H. Brooks , A. S. H. To , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , P. Demoulin , D. Stansby , D. B. Jess , S. Jafarzadeh

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

Modelling of adiabatic gravity wave propagation in the solar atmosphere showed that mode conversion to field guided acoustic waves or Alfv\'en waves was possible in the presence of highly inclined magnetic fields. This work aims to extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marie E. Newington , Paul S. Cally

We present two-dimensional simulations of wave propagation in a realistic, non-stationary model of the solar atmosphere. This model shows a granular velocity field and magnetic flux concentrations in the intergranular lanes similar to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-29 C. Nutto , O. Steiner , M. Roth

It is now well established that the Alfv\'enic waves are ubiquitous in the solar corona. However, the Alfv\'enic wave energy estimated from the Doppler velocity measurements in the corona was found to be four orders of magnitude less than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vaibhav Pant , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Richard J. Morton

We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations, simultaneously obtained with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, to investigate the high-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Bo Li , Song Feng , Xianyong Bai , Linhua Deng , Yunfei Yang , Zhike Xue , Rui Wang

Magnetic fields are key ingredients for heating the solar corona to temperatures of several million Kelvin. A particularly important region with respect to this is the so-called magnetic canopy below the corona, where sound and Alfv\'en…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Th. Gundrum , J. Forbriger , Th. Herrmannsdörfer , G. Mamatsashvili , S. Schnauck , F. Stefani , J. Wosnitza

We present simulation results of the impulsively generated linear and non-linear Alfv\'en waves in the weakly curved coronal magnetic flux-tubes (coronal funnels) and discuss their implications for the coronal heating and solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. Chmielewski , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak

We present evidence for the conversion and transmission of wave modes on the magnetic flux tubes that constitute mottles and form the magnetic canopy in a quiet Sun region, highlighting the details and key parameters of the mechanism that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Georgia Tsiropoula , Kostas Tziotziou

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are candidates for heating the solar chromosphere, although it is still unclear which mode of the wave is dominant in heating. We perform two-dimensional radiative MHD simulation to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima

Alfv\'enic fluctuations of various scales are ubiquitous in the corona; their non-linear interactions and eventual turbulent cascade result in an important heating mechanism that accelerates the solar wind. These fluctuations may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Chaitanya Prasad Sishtla , Jens Pomoell , Rami Vainio , Emilia Kilpua , Simon Good

We provide estimates of the wave energy reaching the solar chromosphere and corona in a network-like magnetic field topology, including a coronal null point. The waves are excited by an instantaneous strong subphotospheric source and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Irantzu C. Santamaria , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados , Angel de Vicente

Mode conversion occurs when a wave passes through a region where the sound and Alfven speeds are equal. At this point there is a resonance, which allows some of the incident wave to be converted into a different mode. We study this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-10 A. M. D. McDougall , A. W. Hood

We show that the coronal heating and the acceleration of the fast solar wind in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere by one-dimensional, time-dependent, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We study the role the the p-mode-like vertical oscillation on the photosphere in driving solar winds in the framework of Alfven-wave-driven winds. By performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical numerical simulations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-10 Kimihiko Shimizu , Munehito Shoda , Takeru K. Suzuki

In \citet{Stangalini20} and \citet{Deb20}, magnetic oscillations were detected in the chromosphere of a large sunspot and found to be linked to the coronal locations where a First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect was observed. In an…