Issue |
A&A
Volume 652, August 2021
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Article Number | A114 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | The Sun and the Heliosphere | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141262 | |
Published online | 20 August 2021 |
Solar chromosphere heating and generation of plasma outflows by impulsively generated two-fluid Alfvén waves
1
Institute of Physics, University of M. Curie-Skłodowska, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
e-mail: pelexatamaria@gmail.com
2
Centre for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics / Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Received:
7
May
2021
Accepted:
8
June
2021
Context. We address the heating of the solar chromosphere and the related generation of plasma inflows and outflows.
Aims. We attempt to detect variations in ion temperature and vertical plasma flows, which are driven by impulsively excited two-fluid Alfvén waves. We aim to investigate the possible contribution of these waves to solar chromosphere heating and plasma outflows.
Methods. We performed numerical simulations of the generation and evolution of Alfvén waves with the use of the JOANNA code, which solves the two-fluid equations for ions+electrons and neutrals, coupled by collision terms.
Results. We confirm that the damping of impulsively generated small-amplitude Alfvén waves slightly affects the temperature of the chromosphere and generates slow plasma flows. In contrast, the Alfvén waves generated by large-amplitude pulses increase the chromospheric plasma temperature more significantly and result in faster plasma outflows. The maximum heating occurs when the pulse is launched from the central photosphere, and the magnitude of the related plasma flows grows with the amplitude of the pulse.
Conclusions. Large-amplitude two-fluid Alfvén waves can contribute significantly to the heating of the solar chromosphere and to the generation of plasma outflows.
Key words: magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) / Sun: atmosphere / Sun: chromosphere / Sun: photosphere
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