Magnetohydrodynamic waves driven by p-modes

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent observational and theoretical advances in understanding magnetohydrodynamic waves driven by p-modes in the solar atmosphere, highlighting wave interactions with magnetic structures across different solar regions.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent findings and theories on wave propagation, mode transformation, and coupling in the solar atmosphere, emphasizing magnetic influences and observational evidence.

Findings

Distinct wave behaviors in network, plage, and facular regions

Evidence of mode transformation in magnetic structures

Wave coupling across solar atmospheric layers

Abstract

Waves are observed at all layers of the solar atmosphere and the magnetic field plays a key role in their propagation. While deep down in the atmosphere the p-modes are almost entirely of acoustic nature, in the upper layers magnetic forces are dominating, leading to a large variety of new wave modes. Significant advances have been made recently in our understanding of the physics of waves interaction with magnetic structures, with the help of analytical theories, numerical simulations, as well as high-resolution observations. In this contribution, we review recent observational findings and current theoretical ideas in the field, with an emphasis on the following questions: (i) Peculiarities of the observed wave propagation in network, plage and facular regions; (ii) Role of the mode transformation and observational evidences of this process; (iii) Coupling of the photosphere, chromosphere, and above by means of waves propagating in magnetic structures.