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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6683129 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jiajia J Nelson Chris J CJ Snow Ben B Wang Yuming Y Erdélyi Robert R
Nature communications 20190805 1
The multi-million degree temperature increase from the middle to the upper solar atmosphere is one of the most fascinating puzzles in plasma-astrophysics. Although magnetic waves might transport enough energy from the photosphere to heat up the local chromosphere and corona, observationally validating their ubiquity has proved challenging. Here, we show observational evidence that ubiquitous Alfvén pulses are excited by prevalent intensity swirls in the solar photosphere. Correlation analysis be ...[more]