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Kinetic Alfvén Waves in Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas

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The Sun is our nearest star and the energy released by nuclear reactions near its center is transported by photons inside the inner \({\sim }71\%\) of the solar radius (\(R_\odot \simeq 6.9\times 10^5\) km), called the radiative zone. Outside this radiative zone, called the convective zone, photons are no longer able to transfer energy efficiently, so convective instabilities set in and vertical flows carry nearly all the excess heat to the solar surface. This visible surface, called the photosphere, is the lowest layer of the solar outer atmosphere, emits almost all the solar light, and lowers its temperature by the radiation.

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Wu, DJ., Chen, L. (2020). KAWs in Solar Atmosphere Heating. In: Kinetic Alfvén Waves in Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas. Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7989-5_6

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