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Nonlinear Damping of Fast Waves and Plasma Heating in the Solar Corona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Y. Voitenko
Affiliation:
Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium 2Main Astronomical Observatory, Golosiiv, 03680 Kyiv-127, Ukraine
M. Goossens
Affiliation:
Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium

Abstract

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A nonlinear mechanism for the damping of fast magnetoacoustic wave in the solar corona is studied. It is shown that the nonlinear coupling of finite-amplitude fast waves to small-scale Alfven waves can be much faster than damping mechanisms involving classic transport coefficients.

Type
Session V: Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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