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Time and spatial damping of transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink oscillations is a source of information on the cross-field variation of the plasma density in coronal waveguides. We show that a probabilistic approach to the problem of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 I. Arregui , A. Asensio Ramos

We investigate the transverse oscillations of a line-tied multi-stranded coronal loop composed of several parallel cylindrical strands. First, the collective fast normal modes of the loop are found with the T-matrix theory. There is a huge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Luna , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

We investigate the propagation of MHD waves in a homogenous, magnetized plasma in a weakly stratified atmosphere, representing hot coronal loops. In most of earlier studies a time-independent equilibrium is considered. Here we abandon this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Erdelyi , K. S. Al-Ghafri , R. J. Morton

There is observational evidence of propagating kink waves driven by photospheric motions. These disturbances, interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are attenuated as they propagate upwards in the solar corona. In this paper we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Terradas , M. Goossens , G. Verth

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

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

The standing MHD modes in a zero-$\beta$ cylindrical magnetic flux tube modelled as a straight core surrounded by a magnetically twisted annulus, both embedded in a straight ambient external field is considered. The dispersion relation for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Karami , M. Barin

Context. Transverse oscillations are ubiquitously observed in the solar corona, both in coronal loops and open magnetic flux tubes. Numerical simulations suggest that their dissipation could heat coronal loops, counterbalancing radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Gabriel Pelouze , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas , Julia M. Riedl , Timothy Duckenfield

We investigate the decayless regime of coronal kink oscillations recently discovered in the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/AIA data. In contrast to decaying kink oscillations that are excited by impulsive dynamical processes, this type of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 S. A. Anfinogentov , V. M. Nakariakov , G. Nisticò

The condensations composing coronal rain, falling down along loop-like structures observed in cool chromospheric lines such as H$\alpha$ and \ion{Ca}{2} H, have long been a spectacular phenomenon of the solar corona. However, considered a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Patrick Antolin , Erwin Verwichte

Ever since their detection two decades ago, standing kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied both observationally and theoretically. Almost all driven coronal loop oscillations (e.g., by flares) are observed to damp…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 C. J. Nelson , A. A. Shukhobodskiy , R. Erdélyi , M. Mathioudakis

The effect of temperature inhomogeneity on the periods, their ratios (fundamental vs. first overtone), and the damping times of the standing slow modes in gravitationally stratified solar coronal loops are studied. The effects of optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Abedini , H. Safari , S. Nasiri

{Observations of the solar atmosphere have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves are ubiquitous throughout. Improvements in instrumentation and the techniques used for measurement of the waves now enables subtleties of competing theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 R. J. Morton , K. Mooroogen

The relatively large-amplitude decaying regime of transverse oscillations of coronal loops has been known for two decades and interpreted in terms of MHD kink modes of cylindrical plasma waveguides. Recent observational analysis has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 A. N. Afanasyev , T. Van Doorsselaere , V. M. Nakariakov

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

There is not as yet full agreement on the mechanism that causes the rapid damping of the oscillations observed by TRACE in coronal loops. It has been suggested that the variation of the observed values of the damping time as function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Inigo Arregui , Jose Luis Ballester , Marcel Goossens

Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. In magnetic waveguides resonant absorption due to plasma inhomogeneity naturally transfers wave energy from large-scale motions to small-scale motions. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Soler , J. Andries , M. Goossens

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

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

Kink oscillations are frequently observed in coronal loops. This work aims to numerically clarify the influence of loop curvature on horizontally and vertically polarized kink oscillations. Working within the framework of ideal MHD, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Mingzhe Guo , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Bo Li , Marcel Goossens