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Using both analytical and numerical means, we demonstrate that linear stability analysis of a hydrodynamic stratified atmosphere or a 1D coronal loop model in non-adiabatic settings features a thermal continuum corresponding to highly…

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Coronal rain consists of cool and dense plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. Previous numerical simulations of thermal instability and coronal rain formation have relied on artificially adding a…

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In the solar corona, magnetically sheared structures are unstable to both tearing and thermal instabilities in a coupled fashion. However, how the choice of linear perturbation modes influences the time-scale to achieve the thermal runaway…

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Flows are omnipresent and govern the dynamics of plasma. Solar tornadoes are a class of apparently rotating prominences, that might be formed by thermal instability. In spectroscopic studies on thermal instability background flow is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Joris Hermans , Rony Keppens

The quantification of all possible waves and instabilities in a given system is of paramount importance, and knowledge of the full magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) spectrum allows one to predict the (in)stability of a given equilibrium state. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Niels Claes , Rony Keppens

The processes of the coronal plasma heating and cooling were previously shown to significantly affect the dynamics of slow magnetoacoustic (MA) waves, causing amplification or attenuation, and also dispersion. However, the entropy mode is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 D. I. Zavershinskii , D. Y. Kolotkov , D. S. Riashchikov , N. E. Molevich

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Cool, dense material is frequently observed to permeate the hot, tenuous solar corona in the form of prominences, spicules and coronal rain. Both the cool material and surrounding corona exist at temperatures that are effectively thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 B. Snow , A. Hillier

Solar coronal loops are commonly subject to oscillations. Observations of coronal oscillations are used to infer physical properties of the coronal plasma using coronal seismology. Excitation and evolution of oscillations in coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 P. Kohutova , A. Popovas

Rapidly decaying slow magnetoacoustic waves are regularly observed in the solar coronal structures, offering a promising tool for a seismological diagnostics of the coronal plasma, including its thermodynamical properties. The effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , D. I. Zavershinskii

The stability properties of one-dimensional radiative shocks with a power-law cooling function of the form $\Lambda \propto \rho^2T^\alpha$ are the main subject of this work. The linear analysis originally presented by Chevalier & Imamura,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone

Magnetoacoustic oscillations are nowadays routinely observed in various regions of the solar corona. This allows them to be used as means of diagnosing plasma parameters and processes occurring in it. Plasma diagnostics, in turn, requires a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 Dmitrii I. Zavershinskii , Nonna E. Molevich , Dmitrii S. Riashchikov , Sergey A. Belov

We aim to provide more insights into the applicability to solar coronal seismology of the much-studied discrete leaky modes (DLMs) in classic analyses. Under linear ideal pressureless MHD, we examine two-dimensional (2D) axial fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Yuhong Gao , Bo Li , Mijie Shi , Shaoxia Chen , Hui Yu

Nonlinear evolution of one-dimensional planar perturbations in an optically thin radiatively cooling medium in the long-wavelength limit is studied numerically. The accepted cooling function generates in thermal equilibrium a bistable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. G. Kovalenko , Yu. A. Shchekinov

Context. The study of linear waves and instabilities is necessary to understand the physical evolution of an atmosphere, and can provide physical interpretation of the complex flows found in simulations performed using Global Circulation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Florian Debras , Nathan Mayne , Isabelle Baraffe , Tom Goffrey , John Thuburn

To model the temperature evolution of optically thin astrophysical environments at MHD scales, radiative and collisional cooling rates are typically either pre-tabulated or fit into a functional form and then input into MHD codes as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Amanda Stricklan , Tim Waters , James Klimchuk

Observational and theoretical evidence suggests that coronal heating is impulsive and occurs on very small cross-field spatial scales. A single coronal loop could contain a hundred or more individual strands that are heated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Klimchuk , S. Patsourakos , P. J. Cargill

We aim to study the influence of radiative cooling on the standing kink oscillations of a coronal loop. Using the FLASH code, we solved the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Our model consists of a straight, density enhanced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-30 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Marcu

Slow magnetoacoustic waves represent an important tool for probing the solar coronal plasma. We quantitatively assess the applicability of the weak thermal conduction theory to coronal seismology by slow waves. We numerically model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

Propagating slow waves in coronal loops exhibit a damping which depends upon the frequency of the waves. In this study we aim to investigate the relationship of the damping length (L$_d$) with the frequency of the propagating wave. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sudip Mandal , Norbert Magyar , Ding Yuan , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Dipankar Banerjee
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