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 …

Multiwavelength studies of MHD waves in the solar chromosphere: An overview of recent results

DB Jess, RJ Morton, G Verth, V Fedun, SDT Grant… - Space Science …, 2015‏ - Springer
The chromosphere is a thin layer of the solar atmosphere that bridges the relatively cool
photosphere and the intensely heated transition region and corona. Compressible and …

Impact of space weather on climate and habitability of terrestrial-type exoplanets

VS Airapetian, R Barnes, O Cohen… - International Journal of …, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
The search for life in the Universe is a fundamental problem of astrobiology and modern
science. The current progress in the detection of terrestrial-type exoplanets has opened a …

Wave heating of the solar atmosphere

I Arregui - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Magnetic waves are a relevant component in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Their
significance has increased because of their potential as a remote diagnostic tool and their …

Partially ionized plasmas in astrophysics

JL Ballester, I Alexeev, M Collados, T Downes… - Space Science …, 2018‏ - Springer
Partially ionized plasmas are found across the Universe in many different astrophysical
environments. They constitute an essential ingredient of the solar atmosphere, molecular …

Alfvén wave dissipation in the solar chromosphere

SDT Grant, DB Jess, TV Zaqarashvili, C Beck… - Nature Physics, 2018‏ - nature.com
Magnetohydrodynamic Alfvén waves have been a focus of laboratory plasma physics and
astrophysics for over half a century. Their unique nature makes them ideal energy …

High-frequency torsional Alfvén waves as an energy source for coronal heating

AK Srivastava, J Shetye, K Murawski, JG Doyle… - Scientific Reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
The existence of the Sun's hot atmosphere and the solar wind acceleration continues to be
an outstanding problem in solar-astrophysics. Although magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) …

Magnetic tornado properties: a substantial contribution to the solar coronal heating via efficient energy transfer

H Kuniyoshi, M Shoda, H Iijima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In solving the solar coronal heating problem, it is crucial to comprehend the mechanisms by
which energy is conveyed from the photosphere to the corona. Recently, magnetic …

Vortex motions in the solar atmosphere: Definitions, theory, observations, and modelling

K Tziotziou, E Scullion, S Shelyag, O Steiner… - Space Science …, 2023‏ - Springer
Vortex flows, related to solar convective turbulent dynamics at granular scales and their
interplay with magnetic fields within intergranular lanes, occur abundantly on the solar …

Alfvénic waves in the inhomogeneous solar atmosphere

RJ Morton, R Sharma, E Tajfirouze… - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2023‏ - Springer
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 …