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We report the observation of the first two harmonics of the horizontally polarized kink waves excited in a coronal loop system lying at south-east of AR 11719 on 2013 April 11. The detected periods of the fundamental mode ($P_1$), its first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. Guo , R. Erdélyi , A. K. Srivastava , Q. Hao , X. Cheng , P. F. Chen , M. D. Ding , B. N. Dwivedi

Magnetic arcades in the solar atmosphere, or coronal loops, are common structures known to host magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations. Of particular interest are the observed properties of transverse loop oscillations, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Farhad Allian , Rekha Jain

We present an alternative model of coronal-loop oscillations which considers that the waves are trapped in a 2D waveguide formed by the entire arcade of field lines. This differs from the standard 1D model which treats the waves as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

Twisted coronal loops in the solar atmosphere may become kink-unstable when their magnetic field lines are sufficiently twisted. This instability can trigger magnetic reconnection, leading to the emission of electromagnetic radiation, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 James Stewart , Philippa K. Browning , Mykola Gordovskyy

The propagation and the evolution of Alfvenic pulses in the solar coronal arcades is investigated by means of MHD numerical simulations. Significant transverse oscillations in coronal loops, triggered by nearby flare events, are often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Del Zanna , Eveline Schaekens , Marco Velli

We investigate the plasma and magnetic environment of active region NOAA 11261 on 2 August 2011 around a GOES M1.4 flare/CME (SOL2011-08-02T06:19). We compare coronal emission at (extreme) ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, using SDO AIA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julia K. Thalmann , Astrid M. Veronig , Yang Su

The three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of stereoscopically triangulated loops provide strong constraints for magnetic field models of active regions in the solar corona. Here we use STEREO/A and B data from some 500 stereoscopically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Jean-Pierre Wuelser , Nariaki V. Nitta , James R. Lemen , Marc L. DeRosa , Anna Malanushenko

We report an initial study of temperature and emission measure distributions along four steady loops observed with the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) at the limb of the Sun. The temperature diagnostic is the filter ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dawn D. Lenz , Edward E. DeLuca , Leon Golub , Robert Rosner , Jay A. Bookbinder

Previous studies have found that coronal loops have a nearly uniform thickness, which seems to disagree with the characteristic expansion of active region magnetic fields. This is one of the most intriguing enigmas in solar physics. We here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Lopez Fuentes , J. A. Klimchuk , P. Demoulin

We investigate the transverse coronal-loop oscillations induced by the eruption of a prominence-carrying flux rope on 7 December 2012. The flux rope originating from NOAA Active Region (AR) 11621 was observed in EUV wavelengths by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Q. M. Zhang , J. L. Chen , S. T. Li , L. Lu , D. Li

We developed an automated pattern recognition code that is particularly well suited to extract one-dimensional curvi-linear features from two-dimensional digital images. A former version of this {\sl Oriented Coronal CUrved Loop Tracing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Bart De Pontieu , Eugene A. Katrukha

Longitudinal intensity oscillations along coronal loops that are interpreted as signatures of magneto-acoustic waves are observed frequently in different coronal structures. The aim of this paper is to estimate the physical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 A. Abedini

The energy balance in the corona of the Sun is the key to the long-standing coronal heating dilemma, which could be potentially revealed by observational studies of decayless kink oscillations of coronal plasma loops. A bundle of very long…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yuhu Miao , Libo Fu , Ding Yuan

Context. Recent observations of decayless transverse oscillations have shown two branches in the relationship between periods and loop lengths. One is a linear relationship, interpreted as a standing mode. The other shows almost no…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Yuhang Gao , David Berghmans

We investigate quasi-periodic coronal pulsations during the decay phase of an X 3.2 class flare on 14 May 2013, using soft X-ray data from the RHESSI satellite. Periodogram analyses of soft X-ray light curves show that 53 s and 72 s periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Partha Chowdhury , A. K. Srivastava , B. N. Dwivedi , Robert Sych , Y. -J. Moon

We conducted a high-resolution numerical simulation of the solar corona above a stable active region. The aim is to test the field-line braiding mechanism for a sufficient coronal energy input. We also check the applicability of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We search for indications of waves in the 25-2000 MHz radio spectrum of the 1 August 2010 event (SOL2010-08-01T08:57:00L075C013), where fast propagating waves in the solar corona with the periods of 181, 69, and 40 seconds were detected in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 M. Karlicky , J. Rybak

Despite intensive studies of kink oscillations of coronal loops in the last decade, a large scale statistically significant investigation of the oscillation parameters has not been made using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 C. R. Goddard , G. Nistic`o , V. M. Nakariakov , I. V. Zimovets

The collective transverse coronal loop oscillations seem to be detected in the observational studies. In this regard, Luna et al. (2009, ApJ, 692, 1582) modeled the collective kinklike normal modes of several cylindrical loops system using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-02 Narges Fathalian , Hossein Safari

A web-based, interactive system for the remote processing of imaging data sets (i.e., EUV, X-ray and microwave) and the automated interactive detection of wave and oscillatory phenomena in the solar atmosphere is presented.The system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. A. Sych , V. M. Nakariakov , S. Anfinogentov , L. Ofman