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The Potential Role of Modified Electron Acoustic Wave and Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Mono‐Energetic Aurora

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2023
Results from a 1D kinetic simulation, for the first time, reveal the important role of modified electron acoustic wave (MEAW) in auroral electron acceleration.
Run Shi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Alfven Wave Zoo

open access: yesOALib, 2020
It has been shown that a variety of names are assigned to the original MHD Alfven wave derived originally by Hannes Alfven in the 40s (Nature 150, 405-406 (1942)), and those names are used due to the different magnetic geometries where the target plasma could be confined, that is, in laboratory, in fusion, in space, and in astrophysics, where one could
A. S. de Assis   +2 more
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Nonlinear Interaction of Low-frequency Alfvén Waves and Ions

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The interaction between Alfvén waves and particles is a critical phenomenon in space and laboratory plasmas, and it has been observed that low-frequency Alfvén waves can accelerate and heat ions through subharmonic resonant interactions.
Xianshu Wu   +4 more
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Alfvén‐Fast Wave Coupling in a 2D Nonuniform Medium

open access: yesEarth and Space Science, 2023
A 2D Cartesian simulation is presented and used to solve the ideal, low‐beta, linear magnetohydrodynamics equations. A simulation is used to investigate the propagation of Alfvén waves through inhomogeneities in Alfvén speed and density.
R. Davies, A. N. Wright
doaj   +1 more source

The role of damped Alfven waves on magnetospheric accretion models of young stars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We examine the role of Alfven wave damping in heating the plasma in the magnetic funnels of magnetospheric accretion models of young stars. We study four different damping mechanisms of the Alfven waves: nonlinear, turbulent, viscous-resistive and ...
Basri G.   +15 more
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Phase Mixing of Propagating Alfvén Waves in a Single-fluid Partially Ionized Solar Plasma

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The phase mixing of Alfvén waves is one of the most promising mechanisms for the heating of the solar atmosphere. The damping of waves in this case requires small transversal scales, relative to the magnetic field direction; this requirement is achieved ...
M. McMurdo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Centre-to-limb spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of simulated solar photospheric magneto-convection: signatures of photospheric Alfven waves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Using numerical simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere carried out with the radiative magneto-hydrodynamic code, MURaM, and detailed spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of the simulated photospheric 6302A FeI line, spectro-polarimetric signatures ...
Przybylski, D., Shelyag, S.
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The role of torsional Alfven waves in coronal heating [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the context of coronal heating, among the zoo of MHD waves that exist in the solar atmosphere, Alfven waves receive special attention. Indeed, these waves constitute an attractive heating agent due to their ability to carry over the many different ...
Antiochos   +40 more
core   +1 more source

Penetration to the Earth's surface of standing Alfvén waves excited by external currents in the ionosphere [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales Geophysicae, 1996
The problem of boundary conditions for monochromatic Alfvén waves, excited in the magnetosphere by external currents in the ionospheric E-layer, is solved analytically. Waves with large azimuthal wave numbers m»1 are considered.
A. S. Leonovich, V. A. Mazur
doaj   +1 more source

Alfven wave studies on PRETEXT [PDF]

open access: yesAIP Conference Proceedings, 1985
The properties of low frequency Alfven waves in hot, magnetically confined plasmas are quite unlike those in homogeneous media. Extensive theoretical studies have uncovered the Alfven continuum along with global Alfven eigenmodes (GAE). It has been suggested that such modes may be good candidates for rf heating below the ion cyclotron frequency.
Valanju, P. M.   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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