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The sense of line asymmetry of solar p-modes in the intensity power spectra is observed to be opposite of that seen in the velocity power spectra. Theoretical calculations provide a good understanding and fit to the observed velocity power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pawan Kumar , Sarbani Basu

The scale heights of stratification and the widths of steady solar coronal loops exhibit properties unexplained by standard theory: observed scale heights are often much greater than static theory predicts, while the nearly-constant widths…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon Petrie

The improvements of the observations of the solar system allowed by the use of probes and big instruments let appear several problems: The frequencies of the radio signals received from the probes sent over 5 UA from the Sun are too high;…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Moret-Bailly

During solar flares a large amount of electrons with energies greater than 20 keV is generated with a production rate of typically $10^{36}$ s$^{-1}$. A part of them is able to propagate along open magnetic field lines through the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 F. Breitling , G. Mann , C. Vocks

The solar atmosphere may be heated by Alfven waves that propagate up from the convection zone and dissipate their energy in the chromosphere and corona. To further test this theory, we consider wave heating in an active region observed on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Asgari-Targhi , A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

Aims: Propagation and energy transfer of torsional Alfv\'en waves in solar magnetic flux tubes of axial symmetry is studied. Methods: An analytical model of a solar magnetic flux tube of axial symmetry is developed by specifying a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Murawski , A. Solov'ev , Z. E. Musielak , A. K. Srivastava , J. Kraskiewicz

Recent data from ATIC, CREAM and PAMELA revealed that the energy spectra of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei above 100 GeV/nucleon experience a remarkable hardening with increasing energy. This effect cannot be recovered by the conventional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Tomassetti

We performed a detailed timing study of the Atoll source 4U 1705-44 in order to understand the accretion disk geometry. Cross correlation function (CCF) studies were performed between soft (3-5 keV) and hard energy (15-30 keV) bands using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-07 S. Malu , S. Harikrishna , K. Sriram , Vivek. K. Agrawal

The determination of the cutoff frequency in real solar observations under different local physical conditions is an important and insufficiently explored aspect of waves in solar physics. This work utilizes the near ultraviolet (NUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Pradeep Kayshap , Gayathri Hegde , Z. E. Musielak , Kris Murawski , Tobıas Felipe

Recent observations of rapidly-rotating cool dwarfs have revealed H$\alpha$ line asymmetries indicative of clumps of cool, dense plasma in the stars' coronae. These clumps may be either long-lived (persisting for more than one stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Simon Daley-Yates , Moira M. Jardine , Craig D. Johnston

The elemental composition of the Sun's hot atmosphere, the corona, shows a distinctive pattern that is different than the underlying surface, or photosphere (Pottasch 1963). Elements that are easy to ionize in the chromosphere are enhanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Harry P. Warren , Stephanie L. Yardley

We present coronal density profiles derived from low-frequency (80-240 MHz) imaging of three type III solar radio bursts observed at the limb by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Each event is associated with a white light streamer at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Patrick I. McCauley , Iver H. Cairns , John Morgan

The origin of the activity in the solar corona is a long-standing problem in solar physics. Recent satellite observations, such as Hinode, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), show the detail…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-19 S. Imada , T. Shimizu , T. Kawate , H. Hara , T. Watanabe

We report on a new collective phenomenon in metamaterials: spectral line collapse with increasing number of the unit cell resonators (meta-molecules). Resembling the behaviour of exotic states of matter, such as Bose-Einstein condensates of…

We present a mechanism for the formation of the low frequency 1/f magnetic spectrum based on numerical solutions of a shell reduced-MHD model of the turbulent dynamics inside the sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind. We assign reasonably realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Verdini , R. Grappin , R. Pinto , M. Velli

The extended solar corona at 10-30 solar radii is essentially devoid of all waves below 100 kHz other than triggered ion acoustic waves (TIAW), which consist of a low frequency electromagnetic wave at a frequency of a few Hz coupled to one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Forrest Mozer , Oleksiy Agapitov , Orlando Romeo , Vadim Roytershteyn , Andrii Voshchepynets

Alfv\'en waves, considered one of the primary candidates for heating and accelerating the fast solar wind, are ubiquitous in spacecraft observations, yet their origin remains elusive. In this study, we analyze data from the first 19…

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) provides us the unprecedentedly close approach observation to the Sun, and hence the possibility of directly understanding the "elementary process" which occurs in the kinetic scale of particles collective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Ling Chen , Bing Ma , Dejin Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Marc Pulupa , PeiJin Zhang , Pietro Zucca , Stuart D. Bale , Justin C. Kasper , SuPing Duan

The solar atmosphere is structured and inhomogeneous both horizontally and vertically. The omnipresence of coronal magnetic loops implies gradients of the equilibrium plasma quantities like the density, magnetic field and temperature. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-30 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts

Acoustic waves excited in the photosphere and below might play an integral part in the heating of the solar chromosphere and corona. However, it is yet not fully clear how much of the initially acoustic wave flux reaches the corona and in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Julia M. Riedl , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Fabio Reale , Marcel Goossens , Antonino Petralia , Paolo Pagano