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We simulate transverse oscillations in radiatively cooling coronal loops and forward-model their spectroscopic and imaging signatures, paying attention to the influence of background emission. The transverse oscillations are driven at one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Patrick Antolin , Bo Li

Magnetic twist is thought to play an important role in coronal loops. The effects of magnetic twist on stable magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves is poorly understood because they are seldom studied for relevant cases. The goal of this work is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Terradas , M. Goossens

Some high-resolution observations have revealed that the active-region solar corona is filled with myriads of thin strands even in apparently uniform regions with no resolved loops. This fine structure can host collective oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Manuel Luna , Ramon Oliver , Patrick Antolin , Inigo Arregui

Seismology of coronal loops using observations of damped transverse oscillations in combination with results from theoretical models is a tool to indirectly infer physical parameters in the solar atmospheric plasma. Existing seismology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver

We investigate the standing kink modes of a cylindrical model of coronal loops. The density is stratified along the loop axis and changes discontinuously at the surface of the cylinder. The periods and mode profiles are studies with their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Safari , S. Nasiri , Y. Sobouti

Kink oscillation frequency is a key parameter for coronal seismology. It is still unclear how gravitational stratification affects the kink frequency in curved coronal loops. This work aims to investigate the effect of gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Mingzhe Guo , Bo Li , Mijie Shi

Large-amplitude decaying kink oscillations of coronal loops are strongly influenced by nonlinear processes, such as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and turbulence, though comprehensive theory and observational confirmation remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied for their potential contributions to coronal heating and their role in plasma diagnostics through coronal seismology. A key focus is the strong damping of large-amplitude kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Context: Transverse loop oscillations and loop contractions are commonly associated with solar flares, but the two types of motion have traditionally been regarded as separate phenomena. Aims: We present an observation of coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Alexander J. B. Russell , Paulos J. A. Simoes , Lyndsay Fletcher

We aim to study the influence of radiative cooling on the standing kink oscillations of a coronal loop. Using the FLASH code, we solved the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Our model consists of a straight, density enhanced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-30 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Marcu

There is ample evidence of twisted magnetic structures in the solar corona. This motivates us to consider the magnetic twist as the cause of Alfven frequency continuum in the coronal loops, which can support the resonant absorption as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami

Prominence threads are very long and thin flux tubes which are partially filled with cold plasma. Observations have shown that transverse oscillations are frequent in these solar structures. The observations are usually interpreted as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Elena Khomenko

Recent observations have revealed two types of decayless transverse oscillations in short coronalloops: one with short periods scaling with loop lengths, and the other with longer periods that exhibit a peak at around 5 min in the period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yuhang Gao , Mingzhe Guo , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hui Tian , Samuel J. Skirvin

Context. Kink waves are routinely observed in coronal loops. Resonant absorption is a well-accepted mechanism that extracts energy from kink waves. Nonlinear kink waves are know to be affected by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 N. Magyar , T. Duckenfield , T. Van Doorsselaere , V. M. Nakariakov

Recent observations show a variety of oscillation modes in the corona. Early non-imaging observations in radio wavelengths showed a number of fast-period oscillations in the order of seconds, which have been interpreted as fast sausage mode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus J. Aschwanden

Observations of transversal coronal loop oscillations very often show the excitation and damping of oscillations in groups of coronal loops rather than in individual and isolated structures. We present results on the oscillatory properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Inigo Arregui , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

Decayless kink oscillations of solar coronal loops are studied in terms of a low-dimensional model based on a randomly driven Rayleigh oscillator with coefficients experiencing random fluctuations. The model considers kink oscillations as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Sihui Zhong

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

Kink oscillations are ubiquitously observed in solar coronal loops, their understanding being crucial in the contexts of coronal seismology and atmospheric heating. We study kink modes supported by a straight coronal loop embeded in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Mijie Shi , Bo Li , Shengju Yuan

Coronal loops exist ubiquitously in the solar atmosphere. These loops puzzle astronomers over half a century. Solar magneto-seismology (SMS) provides a unique way to constrain the physical parameters of coronal loops. Here, we study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 W. Su , Y. Guo , R. Erdélyi , Z. J. Ning , M. D. Ding , X. Cheng , B. L. Tan