Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares: a review of underpinning physical mechanisms and their predicted observational signatures

IV Zimovets, JA McLaughlin, AK Srivastava… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The phenomenon of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar and stellar flares has been
known for over 50 years and significant progress has been made in this research area. It has …

Magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar corona

VM Nakariakov, DY Kolotkov - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The corona of the Sun is a unique environment in which magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
waves, one of the fundamental processes of plasma astrophysics, are open to a direct study …

Coronal heating by MHD waves

T Van Doorsselaere, AK Srivastava, P Antolin… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona to the observed high temperatures, imply
the presence of ongoing heating that balances the strong radiative and thermal conduction …

Formation of quasi-periodic slow magnetoacoustic wave trains by the heating/cooling misbalance

DI Zavershinskii, DY Kolotkov, VM Nakariakov… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Slow magnetoacoustic waves are omnipresent in both natural and laboratory plasma
systems. The wave-induced misbalance between plasma cooling and heating processes …

Modelling quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares

JA McLaughlin, VM Nakariakov, M Dominique… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Solar flare emission is detected in all EM bands and variations in flux density of solar
energetic particles. Often the EM radiation generated in solar and stellar flares shows a …

Flaring activity of Proxima Centauri from TESS observations: quasiperiodic oscillations during flare decay and inferences on the habitability of Proxima b

K Vida, K Oláh, Z Kővári… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the light curve of the M5. 5 dwarf Proxima Centauri obtained by the Transiting
Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in Sectors 11 and 12. In the≈ 50 day long light curve we …

Coronal quasi-periodic fast-mode propagating wave trains

Y Shen, X Zhou, Y Duan, Z Tang, C Zhou, S Tan - Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
Quasi-periodic, fast-mode propagating (QFP) wave trains in the corona have been studied
intensively over the last decade, thanks to the full-disk, high spatio-temporal resolution, and …

Simultaneous multiwavelength flare observations of EV Lacertae

RR Paudel, T Barclay, JE Schlieder… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results of our ongoing project conducting simultaneous multiwavelength
observations of flares on nearby active M dwarfs. We acquired data of the nearby dM3. 5e …

Three-dimensional oscillatory magnetic reconnection

JO Thurgood, DI Pontin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we detail the dynamic evolution of localized reconnection regions about 3D magnetic
null points using numerical simulation. We demonstrate for the first time that reconnection …

Nonlinear damping of standing kink waves computed with Elsässer variables

T Van Doorsselaere, M Goossens… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In a previous paper, we computed the energy density and the nonlinear energy cascade rate
for transverse kink waves using Elsässer variables. In this paper, we focus on the standing …