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We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated Alfv\'en waves in an isolated photospheric flux tube, and explore the propagation of these waves along such magnetic structure that extends from the photosphere, where these waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 K. Murawski , A. K. Srivastava , Z. E. Musielak , B. N. Dwivedi

Fast and slow solar wind have distinct properties linked to their solar sources.Alfv\'enic slow wind complicates the usual speed-based classification, especially at intermediate speeds. Solar Orbiter's Solar Wind Analyzer (SWA) offers…

Rapid shear motion of magnetar crust can launch Alfv\'{e}n waves into the magnetosphere. The dissipation of the Alfv\'{e}n waves has been theorized to power the X-ray bursts characteristic of magnetars. However, the process by which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Dominic Bernardi , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Y. Chen

The aim of the present study is to shed light on the effects connected with thermal misbalance due to non-equal cooling and heating rates induced by density and temperature perturbations in solar active regions hosting either propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 S. A. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich

The solar atmosphere is known to be replete with magneto-hydrodynamic wave modes, and there has been significant investment in understanding how these waves propagate through the Sun's atmopshere and deposit their energy into the plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 R. J. Morton , R. Sharma , E. Tajfirouze , H. Miriyala

Alfv\'en waves are responsible for the transfer of magnetic energy in the magnetized plasma. They are involved in heating solar atmosphere and driving solar wind through various nonlinear processes. Since the magnetic field configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

The evolution of a linearly-polarized, long-wavelength Alfv\'en wave --propagating in a collisionless magnetized plasma with a sheared parallel-directed velocity flow-- is here studied by means of two-dimensional hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM)…

We investigate magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in plane shear flows with a streamwise background magnetic field in the super-Alfv\'enic regime. We show that the large-scale velocity shear suppresses turbulence imbalance, driving the…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 M. Kavtaradze , G. Mamatsashvili , G. Chagelishvili , E. Uchava

The characteristics of Alfv\'en waves propagating in a direction oblique to the ambient magnetic field in a stellar wind environment are discussed. A kinetic formulation for a magnetized dusty plasma is adopted considering Maxwellian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 L. B. De Toni , R. Gaelzer , L. F. Ziebell

We derive the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic waves in two-fluid partially ionized plasmas and to compare the results with those obtained under single-fluid description. Two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic equations are used, where ion-electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. K. Khodachenko , H. O. Rucker

A 2.5D numerical model of magnetoacoustic-Alfv\'en linear mode conversions in the partially ionised low solar atmosphere induced by the Hall effect is surveyed, varying magnetic field strength and inclination, and wave frequency and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-06 Abbas Raboonik , Paul Cally

We show that a helical shear flow of a magnetized plasma may serve as an efficient amplifier of Alfven waves. We find that even when the flow is purely ejectional (i.e., when no rotation is present) Alfven waves are amplified through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andria D. Rogava , Swadesh M. Mahajan , Gianluigi Bodo , Silvano Massaglia

Characterizing compressible fluctuations in the solar wind is essential for understanding their role in solar wind acceleration and heating, yet their origin and evolution across different turbulence regimes remain poorly understood. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 C. A. Gonzalez , C. Gonzalez , A. Tenerani

Special features of magnetohydrodynamic waves linear dynamics in smooth shear flows are studied. Quantitative asymptotic and numerical analysis are performed for wide range of system parameters when basic flow has constant shear of velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Gogoberidze , G. D. Chagelishvili , R. Z. Sagdeev , D. G. Lominadze

The consequences of the shear-induced alpha effect to the long-term modulation of magnetic activity are examined with the help of the axisymmetric numerical dynamo model that includes the self-consistent description of the angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-18 V. V. Pipin

It is shown that low-collisionality plasmas cannot support linearly polarized shear-Alfv\'en fluctuations above a critical amplitude $\delta B_{\perp}/B_{0} \sim \beta^{\,-1/2}$, where $\beta$ is the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 J. Squire , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current…

This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave interactions transfer energy to high-frequency fast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

The measured spectrum of kinetic Alfven wave fluctuations in the turbulent solar wind plasma is used to calculate the electron and ion distribution functions resulting from quasi-linear diffusion. The modified ion distribution function is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 L. Rudakov , C. Crabtree , G. Ganguli , M. Mithaiwala

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg