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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

We investigate the effect of a variable, i.e. time-dependent, background on the standing acoustic (i.e. longitudinal) modes generated in a hot coronal loop. A theoretical model of 1D geometry describing the coronal loop is applied. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 K. S. Al-Ghafri , R. Erdélyi

Decayless kink oscillations, characterized by their lack of decay in amplitude, have been detected in coronal loops of varying scales in active regions, quiet Sun and coronal holes. Short-period (< 50 s) decayless oscillations have been…

This paper aims at investigating the existence of localized stationary waves in the shallow subsurface whose constitutive behaviour is governed by the hyperbolic model, implying non-polynomial nonlinearity and strain-dependent shear…

Electron-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (ESKHI) are found in several astrophysical scenarios. Naturally ESKHI is subject to a background magnetic field, but an analytical dispersion relation and an accurate growth rate of ESKHI under…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Yao Guo , Dong Wu , Jie Zhang

In the past few years observations by high-resolution space imaging telescopes and spectrometers have confirmed that a great variety of MHD waves are supported in the solar corona of a low-beta plasma and fine structure. MHD waves are an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tongjiang Wang

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 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

We investigate the linear instability of two-layer stratified shear flows in a sloping two-dimensional channel, subject to non-zero longitudinal gravitational forces. We reveal three previously unknown instabilities, distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Lu Zhu , Amir Atoufi , Adrien Lefauve , Rich R. Kerswell , P. F. Linden

Rapidly decaying slow magnetoacoustic waves are regularly observed in the solar coronal structures, offering a promising tool for a seismological diagnostics of the coronal plasma, including its thermodynamical properties. The effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , D. I. Zavershinskii

Self-gravitating gaseous filaments exist on many astrophysical scales, from sub-pc filaments in the interstellar medium to Mpc scale streams feeding galaxies from the cosmic web. These filaments are often subject to Kelvin-Helmotz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-21 Han Aung , Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a nonlinear shear-driven instability that develops at the interface between shear flows in plasmas. KHI has been inferred in various astrophysical plasmas and has been observed in situ at the…

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 Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a known mechanism for penetration of solar wind matter into the magnetosphere. Using three-dimensional, resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the double mid-latitude reconnection (DMLR) process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Matthieu Leroy , Bart Ripperda , Rony Keppens

We study Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability at the interface of a disc and corona system by doing a linear perturbation analysis. The disc is assumed to be thin, however, the corona is considered to be nearly quasispherical because of its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Mohsen Shadmehri , Perikles Rammos

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

There are ubiquitous flows observed in the solar atmosphere of sub-Alfv\'{e}nic speeds, however after flaring and coronal mass ejection events flows can become Alfv\'{e}nic. In this Letter, we derive an expression for the standing kink mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Terradas , I. Arregui , G. Verth , M. Goossens

Strongly damped Doppler shift oscillations are observed frequently associated with flarelike events in hot coronal loops. In this paper, a review of the observed properties and the theoretical modeling is presented. Statistical measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang

Srivastava et al. (2010) have observed a highly twisted coronal loop, which was anchored in AR10960 during the period 04:43 UT-04:52 UT on 4 June 2007. The loop length and radius are approximately 80 Mm and 4 Mm, with a twist of 11.5 $\pi$.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. K. Srivastava , G. J. J. Botha , T. D. Arber , P. Kayshap

A couple of milliseconds after the merger of a binary system of neutron stars can play a fundamental role in amplifying the comparatively low initial magnetic fields into magnetar strengths. The basic mechanism responsible for this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Jin-Liang Jiang , Luciano Rezzolla