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Resolved magnetohydrodynamic wave lensing in the solar corona

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2024-04-19 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Electromagnetic wave lensing, a common physical phenomenon recognized in visible light for centuries, finds extensive applications in manipulating light in optical systems such as telescopes and cameras. Magnetohydrodynamic wave is a common perturbation phenomenon in the corona. By using high spatio-temporal resolution observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, here, we report the observation of a magnetohydrodynamic wave lensing in the highly ionized and magnetized coronal plasma, where quasi-periodic wavefronts emanated from a flare converged at a specific point after traversing a coronal hole. The entire process resembles an electromagnetic wave lensing from the source to the focus. Meanwhile, the magnetohydrodynamic wave lensing is well reproduced through a magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulation with full spatio-temporal resolution. We further investigate potential applications for coronal seismology, as the lensing process encodes information on the Alfv\'en speed, in conjunction with favorable geometric and density variations.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12044,
  title  = {Resolved magnetohydrodynamic wave lensing in the solar corona},
  author = {Xinping Zhou and Yuandeng Shen and Ding Yuan and Rony Keppens and Xiaozhou Zhao and Libo Fu and Zehao Tang and Jiaoyang Wang and Chengrui Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12044},
  year   = {2024}
}

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24 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, published in Nature Communications

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