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Observations of coronal loops have identified several common loop characteristics, including that loops appear to cool and have higher than expected densities. Two potential heating scenarios have been suggested to explain these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Amy R. Winebarger , Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Zoran Mikic , Jon Linker

Context. The structure and heating of coronal loops are investigated since decades. Established scaling laws relate fundamental quantities like the loop apex temperature, pressure, length, and the coronal heating. Aims. We test such scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We analyse the phase shifts of standing, slow magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in solar coronal loops using a linear MHD model taking into account the role of thermal conductivity, compressive viscosity, radiative losses, and heating-cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Abhinav Prasad , A. K. Srivastava , Tongjiang Wang , Kartika Sangal

A comprehensive understanding of solar coronal heating and charged particle acceleration remains one of the most critical challenges in space and astrophysical plasma physics. In this study, we explore the contribution of Alfv\'en waves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Syed Ayaz , Gary P. Zank , Imran A. Khan , Yeimy J. Rivera , Andreas Shalchi , L. -L. Zhao

We investigate coronal heating and acceleration of the high- and low-speed solar wind in the open field region by dissipation of fast and slow magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) waves through MHD shocks. Linearly polarized \Alfven (fast MHD) waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeru K. Suzuki

Coronal loops are the basic building block of the upper solar atmosphere. Comprehending how these are energized, structured, and evolve is key to understanding stellar coronae. Here we investigate how the energy to heat the loop is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , D. Przybylski , M. Rempel , L. P. Chitta

We show that heating of harmonically trapped ions by periodic delta kicks is dramatically enhanced at isolated values of the Lamb-Dicke parameter. At these values, quasienergy eigenstates localized on island structures undergo avoided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 André R. R. Carvalho , Andreas Buchleitner

We study cascade coupled systems, for which our prototypical example is a 1-d heat equation coupled with a 1-d wave equation. The heat component is controlled through one boundary and the information is transmitted through another one to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Lucas Davron , Pierre Lissy , Swann Marx

Results from the Solar Maximum Mission showed a close connection between the hard X-ray and transition region emission in solar flares. Analogously, the modern combination of RHESSI and IRIS data can inform the details of heating processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Jeffrey W. Reep , Harry P. Warren , Nicholas A. Crump , Paulo J. A. Simoes

Recent developments in the observation and modelling of kink oscillations of coronal loops have led to heightened interest over the last few years. The modification of the Transverse Density Profile (TDP) of oscillating coronal loops by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Christopher Rhys Goddard , Patrick Antolin , David James Pascoe

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

We study phase shifts of the propagating slow waves in coronal loops invoking the effects of thermal conductivity, compressive viscosity, radiative losses and heating-cooling imbalance. We derive a general dispersion relation and solve it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-01 Abhinav Prasad , A. K. Srivastava , Tongjiang Wang

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

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

It is known from numerical simulations that thermal conduction along magnetic field lines plays an important role in the evolution of the kink instability in coronal loops. This study presents the observational signatures of the kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-05 G. J. J. Botha , T. D. Arber , Abhishek K. Srivastava

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

Alfv\'enic waves have gained renewed interest since the existence of ubiquitous propagating kink waves were discovered in the corona. {It has long been suggested that Alfv\'enic} waves play an important role in coronal heating and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ajay K. Tiwari , Richard J. Morton , Stephane Régnier , James A. McLaughlin

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

Context. Kink waves are routinely observed in coronal loops. Resonant absorption is a well-accepted mechanism that extracts energy from kink waves. Nonlinear kink waves are know to be affected by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 N. Magyar , T. Duckenfield , T. Van Doorsselaere , V. M. Nakariakov

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