Waves in the lower solar atmosphere: the dawn of next-generation solar telescopes

DB Jess, S Jafarzadeh, PH Keys, M Stangalini… - Living Reviews in Solar …, 2023 - Springer
Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century.
While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic …

Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere: from theory to observations

M Mathioudakis, DB Jess, R Erdelyi - Space Science Reviews, 2013 - Springer
Alfvén waves are considered to be viable transporters of the non-thermal energy required to
heat the Sun's quiescent atmosphere. An abundance of recent observations, from state-of …

Solar fine-scale structures. I. Spicules and other small-scale, jet-like events at the chromospheric level: observations and physical parameters

G Tsiropoula, K Tziotziou, I Kontogiannis… - Space science …, 2012 - Springer
Over the last two decades the uninterrupted, high resolution observations of the Sun, from
the excellent range of telescopes aboard many spacecraft complemented with observations …

Heating of the magnetized solar chromosphere by partial ionization effects

E Khomenko, M Collados - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we study the heating of the magnetized solar chromosphere induced by the
large fraction of neutral atoms present in this layer. The presence of neutrals, together with …

Fast magnetic reconnection in the solar chromosphere mediated by the plasmoid instability

L Ni, B Kliem, J Lin, N Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5
dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar …

Investigating Alfvénic wave propagation in coronal open-field regions

RJ Morton, S Tomczyk, R Pinto - Nature Communications, 2015 - nature.com
The physical mechanisms behind accelerating solar and stellar winds are a long-standing
astrophysical mystery, although recent breakthroughs have come from models invoking the …

Magneto-acoustic waves in sunspots: first results from a new three-dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic code

T Felipe, E Khomenko, M Collados - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Waves observed in the photosphere and chromosphere of sunspots show complex
dynamics and spatial patterns. The interpretation of high-resolution sunspot wave …

The source of 3 minute magnetoacoustic oscillations in coronal fans

DB Jess, I De Moortel, M Mathioudakis… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We use images of high spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution, obtained using both
ground-and space-based instrumentation, to investigate the coupling between wave …

Modeling the subsurface structure of sunspots

H Moradi, C Baldner, AC Birch, DC Braun… - Solar Physics, 2010 - Springer
While sunspots are easily observed at the solar surface, determining their subsurface
structure is not trivial. There are two main hypotheses for the subsurface structure of …

Numerical modeling of footpoint-driven magneto-acoustic wave propagation in a localized solar flux tube

V Fedun, S Shelyag, R Erdélyi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we present and discuss results of two-dimensional simulations of linear and
nonlinear magneto-acoustic wave propagation through an open magnetic flux tube …