The generation of magnetohydrodynamic waves by high frequency turbulence in the active regions of the sun and stars
Abstract
The possibility of the generation of fast and slow magnetosonic waves in a region of developed Langmuir turbulence is investigated. The generation mechanism involves the dependence of the high-frequency source of Joule heating and striction force on the magnetic field intensity and plasma density. The effect is more prevalent in high-pressure plasma such as that of the solar and stellar active regions where energetic particles escape and quasi-periodic pulsations of flare loops may be associated with magnetosonic waves.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- November 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990PAZh...16.1045G
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Magnetosonic Resonance;
- Plasma Turbulence;
- Stellar Activity;
- Wave Generation;
- Ohmic Dissipation;
- Plasma Density;
- Ponderomotive Forces;
- Resistance Heating;
- Astrophysics