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Coronal fan loops rooted in sunspot umbra show outward propagating waves with subsonic phase speed and period around 3-min. However, their source region in the lower atmosphere is still ambiguous. We performed multi-wavelength observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh Gupta

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves play a key role in heating the solar corona and driving the solar wind. Recent observations have shown the presence of slow magneto-acoustic and Alfv\'enic waves in polar plumes and inter-plumes. However, a…

This short review paper gives an overview of recently observed transverse, propagating velocity perturbations in coronal loops. These ubiquitous perturbations are observed to undergo strong damping as they propagate. Using 3D numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 I. De Moortel , D. J. Pascoe , A. N. Wright , A. W. Hood

Coronal plumes and chromospheric jet-like structures are believed to be highly dynamic. We report the first direct observations of a propagating kink wave in a chromospheric jet-like structure and its associated plumelet structure in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Youqian Qi , Mingzhe Guo , Zhenghua Huang , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Bo Li , Lidong Xia , Hengyuan Wei , Hui Fu

Waves have long been thought to contribute to the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. Recent observations have demonstrated evidence of quasi-periodic longitudinal disturbances and ubiquitous transverse wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Threlfall , I. De Moortel , S. W. McIntosh , C. Bethge

We study the nature of quiet-Sun oscillations using multi-wavelength observations from TRACE, Hinode, and SOHO. The aim is to investigate the existence of propagating waves in the solar chromosphere and the transition region via analyzing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 G. R. Gupta , S. Subramanian , D. Banerjee , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

Standing long-period (with the periods longer than several minutes) oscillations in large hot (with the temperature higher than 3 MK) coronal loops have been observed as the quasi-periodic modulation of the EUV and microwave intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sanjay Kumar , V. M. Nakariakov , Y. -J. Moon

We study the time-evolution of axisymmetric oscillations of superfluid magnetars with a poloidal magnetic field and an elastic crust, working in Newtonian gravity. Extending earlier models, we study the effects of composition gradients and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Passamonti , S. K. Lander

Velocity oscillations "measured" simultaneously at the photosphere and the chromosphere -from time series of spectropolarimetric data in the 10830 A region- of different solar magnetic features allow us to study the properties of wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Rebecca Centeno , Manuel Collados , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Solar coronal plumes long seemed to possess a simple geometry supporting spatially coherent, stable outflow without significant fine structure. Recent high-resolution observations have challenged this picture by revealing numerous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 V. M. Uritsky , C. E. DeForest , J. T. Karpen , C. R. DeVore , P. Kumar , N. E. Raouafi , P. F. Wyper

Observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) reveal ubiquitous episodic outflows (jets) with an average speed around 120 km s-1 at temperatures often exceeding a million degree in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-27 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Shadia Rifal Habbal , Jiansen He

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

Waves are important for the heating of the solar corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. We have examined a long spectral time series of a northern coronal hole observed on the 20th October 1996, with the SUMER spectrometer onboard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 G. R. Gupta , E. O'Shea , D. Banerjee , M. Popescu , J. G. Doyle

Slow magnetoacoustic waves with a 3 minute period are upward-propagating waves traveling through the density-stratified umbral atmosphere. The decreasing density causes their amplitude to increase, developing into nonlinear waves through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , R. Sych , P. S. Rawat

In this paper we show that the phase mixing of continuum Alfv\'{e}n waves and/or continuum slow waves in magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere as, e.g., coronal arcades, can create the illusion of wave propagation across the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 T. Kaneko , M. Goossens , R. Soler , J. Terradas , T. Van Doorsselaere , T. Yokoyama , A. N. Wright

Waves are thought to play a significant role in the heating of the solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the wind. Among the many types of waves observed in the Sun, the so-called p-modes with a 3 mHz frequency peak dominate the lower…

We present a detailed analysis of a reflecting intensity perturbation in a large coronal loop that appeared as sloshing oscillation and lasted for at least one and a half periods. The perturbation is initiated by a microflare at one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Fanxiaoyu Xia , Tongjiang Wang , Yang Su , Jie Zhao , Qingmin Zhang , Astrid M. Veronig , Weiqun Gan

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

We investigate the properties and relationship between Doppler-velocity fluctuations and intensity fluctuations in the off-limb quiet Sun corona. These are expected to reflect the properties of Alfvenic and compressive waves, respectively.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Michael Hahn , Xiangrong Fu , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Yifan Huang , Alexandros Koukras , Daniel Wolf Savin