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Oscillations in coronal loops are usually interpreted in terms of uncoupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Examples of these waves are standing transverse motions, interpreted as the kink MHD modes, and propagating slow modes, commonly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Terradas , J. Andries , E. Verwichte

Decayless kink oscillations are frequently observed in solar coronal loops and are considered potential contributors to coronal heating. Despite the ubiquity of this wave phenomenon, its driving mechanism remains unclear. Studies to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sudip Mandal , Cosima Breu , Hardi Peter

The nature and detailed properties of the heating of the million-degree solar corona are important issues that are still largely unresolved. Nanoflare heating might be dominant in active regions and quiet Sun, although direct signatures of…

The Parker or field line tangling model of coronal heating is investigated through long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-15 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi

We investigate a possibility of heating of the loops and other closed magnetic structures in active regions of the solar corona by the flow of solar wind (plus other flows that may be present) across the magnetic field lines (that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

We present a study of energetic-electron trapping and acceleration in the Kelvin-Helmholtz-induced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence of post-flare loops in the solar corona. Using the particle-tracing capabilities of MPI-AMRVAC 3.0, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Fabio Bacchini , Wenzhi Ruan , Rony Keppens

Slow MHD waves are important tools for understanding the coronal structures and dynamics. In this paper, we report a number of observations, from X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board HINODE and SDO/AIA of reflecting longitudinal waves in hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Sudip Mandal , Ding Yuan , Xia Fang , Dipankar Banerjee , Vaibhav Pant , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We aim to identify the physical processes which occur in the magnetic network of the chromosphere and which contribute to its dynamics and heating. Specifically, we study the propagation of transverse (kink) MHD waves which are impulsively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Hasan , P. Ulmschneider

The source of the non-thermal energy required for the heating of the upper solar atmosphere to temperatures in excess of a million degrees and the acceleration of the solar wind to hundreds of kilometres per second is still unclear. One…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. J. Morton , G. Verth , A. Hillier , R. Erdélyi

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

We study the propagation properties of slow magneto-acoustic waves in a multi-thermal coronal loop using a 3D MHD model, for the first time. A bundle of 33 vertical cylinders, each of 100{\,}km radius, randomly distributed over a circular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Krishna Prasad , T. Van Doorsselaere

We have developed a numerical model of flare heating due to the dissipation of Alfv\'enic waves propagating from the corona to the chromosphere. With this model, we present an investigation of the key parameters of these waves on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jeffrey W. Reep , Alexander J. B. Russell

Context: The location of coronal heating in magnetic loops has been the subject of a long-lasting controversy: does it occur mostly at the loop footpoints, at the top, is it random, or is the average profile uniform? Aims: We try to address…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Buchlin , P. J. Cargill , S. J. Bradshaw , M. Velli

Kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are frequently observed in various magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere. They may contribute significantly to coronal heating and could be used as a tool to diagnose the solar plasma. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ding Yuan , Tom Van Doorsselaere

In recent years, the decay-less regime of standing transverse oscillations in coronal loops has been the topic of many observational and numerical studies, focusing on their physical characteristics, as well as their importance for coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The solar atmosphere is known to contain many different types of wavelike oscillation. Waves and other fluctuations (e.g., turbulent eddies) are believed to be responsible for at least some of the energy transport and dissipation that heats…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Steven R. Cranmer , Momchil E. Molnar

In the present paper, we derive a new dispersion relation for slow magnetoacoustic waves invoking the effect of thermal conductivity, compressive viscosity, radiation and unknown heating term along with the consideration of heating cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Abhinav Prasad , A. K. Srivastava , T. J. Wang

The heating of coronal loops is investigated to understand the observational consequences in terms of the thermodynamics and radiative losses from the Sun as well as the magnetized coronae of stars with an outer convective envelope. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 A. F. Rappazzo , R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , M. Velli

In a previous paper, we computed the energy density and the non-linear energy cascade rate for transverse kink waves using Elsasser variables. In this paper, we focus on the standing kink waves, which are impulsively excited in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-30 Tom Van Doorsselaere , Marcel Goossens , Norbert Magyar , Michael S. Ruderman , Rajab Ismayilli

We have performed a 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation that resolves the propagation and dissipation of Alfven waves in the solar atmosphere. Alfvenic fluctuations are introduced on the bottom boundary of the extremely large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Takuma Matsumoto , Takeru K. Suzuki