Why Does the Solar Corona Abnormally Rotate Faster Than the Photosphere?

Why Does the Liquid Crystal Rotate?

Turbulence in the Solar Photosphere

The precise nature of photospheric flows, and of the transport effects they give rise to, has been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. Here we attempt to give a brief review of the subject emphasizing interdisciplinary (solar physics—turbulence theory) aspects, key open questions, and recent developments.

Does the Kai clock rotate?

suggests that an ancient circadian clock rotates much like a hand on an analogue clock. His analysis of cyanobacterial clock protein structures reveals a similarity with the F 1-ATPase rotary motor. The cyanobacterial clock is controlled by the KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC proteins, which form a complex at night that falls apart in the day. Mutations causing more stable complexes correspond to a longer...

Waves in the solar photosphere

The solar photosphere is a partially ionized medium with collisions between electrons, various metallic ions and neutral hydrogen playing an important role in the momentum and energy transport in the medium. Furthermore, the number of neutral hydrogen atom could be as large as 10 times the number of plasma particles in the lower photosphere. The non-ideal MHD effects, namely Ohm, Ambipolar and ...

Coupling from the photosphere to the chromosphere and the corona

The atmosphere of the Sun is characterized by a complex interplay of competing physical processes: convection, radiation, conduction, and magnetic fields. The most obvious imprint of the solar convection and its overshooting in the low atmosphere is the granulation pattern. Beside this dominating scale there is a more or less smooth distribution of spatial scales, both towards smaller and large...