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For decades it has been established that the amount of energy released by solar flares excites the acoustic oscillations propagating on the surface of the Sun (Wolff 1972). It is believed that these flares can excite velocity oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-08 Teresa Monsue

System-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves within Earth's magnetosphere are often understood theoretically using box models. While these have been highly instructive in understanding many fundamental features of the various wave modes…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 M. O. Archer , D. J. Southwood , M. D. Hartinger , L. Rastaetter , A. N. Wright

The history and present state of large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling of the solar corona and the solar wind with steady or quasi-steady coronal physics is reviewed. We put the evolution of ideas leading to the recognition of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Tamas I. Gombosi , Bart van der Holst , Ward B. Manchester , Igor V. Sokolov

Low-frequency longitudinal oscillations of a flaring coronal loop are studied numerically. In the recent work of Nakariakov et al., Astron. and Astrophys., 414, L25-L28 (2004) it has been shown that the time dependences of density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov , T. D. Arber , M. J. Aschwanden

In the context of coronal heating, among the zoo of MHD waves that exist in the solar atmosphere, Alfven waves receive special attention. Indeed, these waves constitute an attractive heating agent due to their ability to carry over the many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 P. Antolin , K. Shibata

Oscillations are abundant in the solar corona. Coronal loop oscillations are typically studied using highly idealised models of magnetic flux tubes. In order to improve our understanding of coronal oscillations, it is necessary to consider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , M. Szydlarski , M. Carlsson

Kink oscillations of a coronal loop are observed and studied in detail because they provide a unique probe into the structure of coronal loops through MHD seismology and a potential test of coronal heating through the phase-mixing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 P. Pagano , D. J. Pascoe , I. De Moortel

This paper reviews our growing understanding of the physics behind coronal heating (in open-field regions) and the acceleration of the solar wind. Many new insights have come from the last solar cycle's worth of observations and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Steven R. Cranmer , John L. Kohl , Mari Paz Miralles , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

Transverse MHD waves permeate the solar atmosphere and are a candidate for coronal heating. However, the origin of these waves is still unclear. In this work, we analyse coordinated observations from \textit{Hinode}/SOT and \textit{IRIS} of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Patrick Antolin , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

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 and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century. While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, spanning radio to gamma-ray sources, the underlying role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Gary Verth , Samuel D. T. Grant

Within the last decade, due to significant improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of chromospheric data, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave studies in this fascinating region of the Sun's atmosphere have risen to the forefront of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 G. Verth , D. B. Jess

Damped transverse oscillations of magnetic loops are routinely observed in the solar corona. This phenomenon is interpreted as standing kink magnetohydrodynamic waves, which are damped by resonant absorption owing to plasma inhomogeneity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Roberto Soler , Manuel Luna

Two sequences of solar images obtained by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer in three UV passbands are studied using wavelet and Fourier analysis and compared to the photospheric magnetic flux measured by the Michelson Doppler…

2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are performed with high spatial resolution in order to distinguish between competing models of the coronal heating problem. A single coronal loop powered by Alfv\'{e}n waves excited in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Takuma Matsumoto

This work investigates the decayless kink oscillations of solar coronal loops and examines possible changes in their behaviour in active regions (ARs) before powerful solar flares (M- and X-class) and in the absence of powerful flares. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 A. B. Nechaeva , I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , S. A. Anfinogentov

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

We present a statistical study of 130 solar flares (B to X class) that lack soft X-ray quasi-periodic pulsations and show no kink oscillations of nearby coronal loops visible in SDO/AIA 171~\AA~images. The aim is to investigate whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zhiyi Li , Valery M. Nakariakov , Ding Yuan , Song Feng

Quasi-periodic fast propagating magnetosonic waves (QFPs) were discovered in the solar corona in EUV since the launch of SDO spacecraft more than a decade ago. The QFP waves are associated with flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang , Xudon Sun , Meng Jin

We report the observation of the first two harmonics of the horizontally polarized kink waves excited in a coronal loop system lying at south-east of AR 11719 on 2013 April 11. The detected periods of the fundamental mode ($P_1$), its first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. Guo , R. Erdélyi , A. K. Srivastava , Q. Hao , X. Cheng , P. F. Chen , M. D. Ding , B. N. Dwivedi