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astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Modeling the Excitation, Propagation and Damping of Quasi-Periodic Fast Magnetosonic Waves in Realistic Coronal Active Region Magnetic Field Structures

Leon Ofman, Tongjiang Wang, Xudon Sun +1

Quasi-periodic fast propagating magnetosonic waves (QFPs) were discovered in the solar corona in EUV since the launch of SDO spacecraft more than a decade ago. The QFP waves are as…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Exploring Standing and Reflected Slow-mode Waves in Flaring Coronal Loops: A Parametric Study Using 2.5D MHD Modeling

Tongjiang Wang, Leon Ofman, Stephen J. Bradshaw

Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping m…

astro-ph.SR2023

Observations and Modeling of Unstable Proton and Alpha Particle Velocity Distributions in Sub-Alfvenic Solar Wind at PSP Perihelia

Leon Ofman, Scott A Boardsen, Lan K Jian +7

Past observations show that solar wind (SW) acceleration occurs inside the sub-Alfvenic region, reaching the local Alfven speed at typical distances ~ 10 - 20 Rs (solar radii). Rec…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 9 cited

Reconnection generated plasma flows in the quasi-separatrix layer in localised solar corona

Sripan Mondal, A. K. Srivastava, Sudheer K. Mishra +8

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to deter…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 5 cited

Nonlinear Fast Magnetosonic Waves in Solar Prominence Pillars

Leon Ofman, Therese A. Kucera, C. Richard DeVore

We investigate the properties of nonlinear fast magnetosonic (NFM) waves in a solar prominence, motivated by recent high-resolution and high-cadence Hinode/SOT observations of smal…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 26 cited

Modeling ion beams, kinetic instabilities, and waves observed by the Parker Solar Probe near perihelia

Leon Ofman, Scott A Boardsen, Lan K Jian +2

Recent in-situ observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission in the inner heliosphere near perihelia show evidence of ion beams, temperature anisotropies, and kinetic wave…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

Excitation and Damping of Slow Magnetosonic Waves in Flaring Hot Coronal Loops: Effects of Compressive Viscosity

Leon Ofman, Tongjiang Wang

Slow magnetosonic waves associated with flares were observed in coronal loops by SOHO/SUMER, SDO/AIA in various EUV bandpasses, and other instruments. The excitation and damping of…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 105 cited

Slow-Mode Magnetoacoustic Waves in Coronal Loops

Tongjiang Wang, Leon Ofman, Ding Yuan +3

Rapidly decaying long-period oscillations often occur in hot coronal loops of active regions associated with small (or micro-) flares. This kind of wave activity was first discover…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 22 cited

Automated identification of transiting exoplanet candidates in NASA Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) data with machine learning methods

Leon Ofman, Amir Averbuch, Adi Shliselberg +3

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) technique that uses machine learning (ML) methodologies combines several algorithms, which were developed by ThetaRay, Inc., is applied to NASA…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 243 cited

Coronal heating by MHD waves

Tom Van Doorsselaere, Abhishek K. Srivastava, Patrick Antolin +9

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…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 88 cited

MHD Waves in open coronal structures

D. Banerjee, S. Krishna Prasad, V. Pant +8

Modern observatories have revealed the ubiquitous presence of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar corona. The propagating waves (in contrast to the standing waves) are usually o…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

Fast Magnetosonic Waves and Flows in a Solar Prominence Foot: Observations and Modeling

Leon Ofman, Therese A. Kucera

We study recent observations of propagating fluctuations in a prominence foot with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) high-resolution observations in Ca~II and H alpha emission w…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 26 cited

Determination of transport coefficients by coronal seismology of flare-induced slow-mode waves: Numerical parametric study of 1D loop model

Tongjiang Wang, Leon Ofman

Recent studies of a flaring loop oscillation event on 2013 December 28 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have revealed the…

physics.space-ph2019★ 15 cited

Nonlinear Evolution of Ion Kinetic Instabilities in the Solar Wind

Leon Ofman

In-situ observations of the solar wind (SW) plasma from 0.29 to 1AU show that the protons and alpha particles are often non-Maxwellian, with evidence of kinetic instabilities, temp…

astro-ph.EP2019

Reconstructing Extreme Space Weather from Planet Hosting Stars

V. S. Airapetian, V. Adibekyan, M. Ansdell +80

The field of exoplanetary science is making rapid progress both in statistical studies of exoplanet properties as well as in individual characterization. As space missions provide…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 55 cited

A Truly Global Extreme Ultraviolet Wave from the SOL2017-09-10 X8.2+ Solar Flare-Coronal Mass Ejection

Wei Liu, Meng Jin, Cooper Downs +3

We report SDO/AIA observations of an extraordinary global extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wave triggered by the X8.2+ flare-CME eruption on 2017 September 10. This was one of the best EU…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 34 cited

Effect of transport coefficients on excitation of flare-induced standing slow-mode waves in coronal loops

Tongjiang Wang, Leon Ofman, Xudong Sun +2

Standing slow-mode waves have been recently observed in flaring loops by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). By means of the coronal sei…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 43 cited

Quasi-periodic Counter-propagating Fast Magnetosonic Wave Trains from Neighboring Flares: SDO/AIA Observations and 3D MHD Modeling

Leon Ofman, Wei Liu

Since their discovery by SDO/AIA in EUV, rapid (phase speeds of 1000 km/s), quasi-periodic, fast-mode propagating wave trains (QFPs) have been observed accompanying many solar flar…

astro-ph.SR2017

Energy release in the solar atmosphere from a stream of infalling prominence debris

Andrew R. Inglis, Holly R. Gilbert, Leon Ofman

Recent high-resolution and high-cadence EUV imaging has revealed a new phenomenon, impacting prominence debris, where prominence material from failed or partial eruptions can impac…

astro-ph.SR2017

Slow-Mode Oscillations of Hot Loops Excited at Flaring Footpoints

Tongjiang Wang, Wei Liu, Leon Ofman +1

The analysis of a hot loop oscillation event using SOHO/SUMER, GOES/SXI, and RHESSI observations is presented. Damped Doppler shift oscillations were detected in the Fe XIX line by…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 19 cited

Excitation of flare-induced waves in coronal loops and the effects of radiative cooling

Elena Provornikova, Leon Ofman, Tongjiang Wang

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These dis…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 16 cited

Kelvin--Helmholtz instability in a twisting solar polar coronal hole jet observed by \emph{SDO}/AIA

I. Zhelyazkov, T. V. Zaqarashvili, L. Ofman +1

We investigate the conditions under which the fluting (), , and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a uniformly twisted flux tube moving along its axis become…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 23 cited

Halpha Doppler shifts in a tornado in the solar corona

B. Schmieder, P. Mein, N. Mein +3

High resolution movies in 193 A from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamic Observatory SDO show apparent rotation in the leg of a prominence observed during a…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 7 cited

Inference of Magnetic Field in the Coronal Streamer Invoking Kink Wave Motions generated by Multiple EUV Waves

A. K. Srivastava, Talwinder Singh, Leon Ofman +1

Using MHD seismology by observed kink waves, the magnetic field profile of a coronal streamer has been investigated. STEREO-B/EUVI temporal image data on 7 March 2012 shows an evol…