{
  "id": "1906.01746",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-06-04T22:43:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-06-04T22:43:32.000Z",
  "title": "Heating of a Quiet Region of the Solar Chromosphere by Ion and Neutral Acoustic Waves",
  "authors": [
    "B. Kuźma",
    "D. Wójcik",
    "K. Murawski"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR"
  ],
  "abstract": "Using high-resolution numerical simulations we investigate the plasma heating driven by periodic two-fluid acoustic waves that originate at the bottom of the photosphere and propagate into the gravitationally stratified and partially ionized solar atmosphere. We consider ions+electrons and neutrals as separate fluids that interact between themselves via collision forces. The latter play an important role in the chromosphere, leading to significant damping of short-period waves. Long-period waves do not essentially alter the photospheric temperatures, but they exhibit the capability of depositing a part of their energy in the chromosphere. This results in up about a five times increase of ion temperature that takes place there on a time-scale of a few minutes. The most effective heating corresponds to waveperiods within the range of about 30-200 s with a peak value located at 80 s. However, we conclude that for the amplitude of the driver chosen to be equal to 0.1 km s$^{-1}$, this heating is too low to balance the radiative losses in the chromosphere.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-06-04T22:43:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutral acoustic waves",
      "quiet region",
      "solar chromosphere",
      "periodic two-fluid acoustic waves",
      "high-resolution numerical simulations"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}