Heating of ions by low-frequency Alfven waves in solar atmosphere

The exact mechanisms responsible for heating the solar atmosphere in regions such as the chromosphere (partially ionized) and the corona (fully ionized) remain quantitatively unknown. This thesis demonstrates that the ions can be heated by Alfven waves with low frequencies in fully and partially ion...

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Main Author: Dong, Chuanfei
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37160