The Open Astronomy Journal

2009, 2 : 72-73
Published online 2009 August 13. DOI: 10.2174/1874381100902010072
Publisher ID: TOAAJ-2-72

Comments on “Comment on Propagation and Dissipation of Alfvén Waves in Coronal Holes” by Suresh Chandra

B.N. Dwivedi and A.K. Srivastava
Department of Applied Physics, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India.

ABSTRACT

We comment on the recently published paper by Chandra (Open Astronomy Journal, 2009, 2, 16-18), and show that his results are erroneous in the context of the propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in polar coronal holes under individual effects of magnetic diffusivity and viscosity.