NDLI: Alfvén Reflection and Reverberation in the Solar Atmosphere

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Author	Cally, P. S.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Magneto-atmospheres with Alfvén speed [a] that increases monotonically with height are often used to model the solar atmosphere, at least out to several solar radii. A common example involves a uniform vertical or inclined magnetic field in an isothermal atmosphere, for which the Alfvén speed is exponential. We address the issue of internal reflection in such atmospheres, both for time-harmonic and for transient waves. It is found that a mathematical boundary condition may be devised that corresponds to perfect absorption at infinity, and, using this, that many atmospheres where a(x) is analytic and unbounded present no internal reflection of harmonic Alfvén waves. However, except for certain special cases, such solutions are accompanied by a wake, which may be thought of as a kind of reflection. For the initial-value problem where a harmonic source is suddenly switched on (and optionally off), there is also an associated transient that normally decays with time as $\mathcal{O}(t^{-1})$ or $\mathcal{O}(t^{-1}\ln t)$ , depending on the phase of the driver. Unlike the steady-state harmonic solutions, the transient does reflect weakly. Alfvén waves in the solar corona driven by a finite-duration train of p-modes are expected to leave such transients.
Starting Page	33
Ending Page	50
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00380938
Journal	Solar Physics
Volume Number	280
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573093X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-07-10
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Waves, Alfvén Waves, magnetohydrodynamic Meteorology/Climatology Astrophysics and Astroparticles Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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