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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

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

We investigate the propagation of MHD fast waves into a cylindrical coronal loop through an inhomogeneous stationary flow region. The background flow is assumed to have a small, spatially periodic structure in addition to a constant speed.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-05 D. J. Yu

In this Letter we establish clear evidence for the resonant absorption damping mechanism by analyzing observational data from the novel Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP). This instrument has established that in the solar corona there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Verth , M. Goossens , J. Terradas

We study dynamical consequences of the kink instability of a twisted coronal flux rope, using the force-free coronal loop model by Titov & D\'emoulin (1999) as the initial condition in ideal-MHD simulations. When a critical value of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kliem , V. S. Titov , T. Toeroek

We analyse transverse oscillations of a coronal loop excited by continuous monoperiodic motions of the loop footpoint at different frequencies in the presence of gravity. Using the MPI-AMRVAC code, we perform three-dimensional numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrey Afanasyev , Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

A new non-perturbative method to compute accurate oscillation modes in rapidly rotating stars is presented. In this paper, the effect of the centrifugal force is fully taken into account while the Coriolis force is neglected. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lignieres , M. Rieutord , D. Reese

Recent numerical studies of oscillating flux tubes have established the significance of resonant absorption in the damping of propagating transverse oscillations in coronal loops. The nonlinear nature of the mechanism has been examined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , P. Antolin

Lim et al. (2023) have recently proposed that the slope ($\delta$) of the power law distribution between the energy flux and oscillation frequency could determine whether high-frequency transverse oscillations give a dominant contribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans , Elena Petrova

Kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied for their potential contributions to coronal heating and their role in plasma diagnostics through coronal seismology. A key focus is the strong damping of large-amplitude kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Context. Coronal loops are the basic building blocks of the solar corona, which are related to the mass supply and heating of solar plasmas in the corona. However, their fundamental magnetic structures are still not well understood. Most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Dong Li , Ding Yuan , Marcel Goossens , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Wei Su , Ya Wang , Yang Su , Zongjun Ning

Recent observations have revealed the ubiquitous presence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations in the solar corona. The aim of this review is to present recent progress in the observational study of four types of wave (or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-02 Tongjiang Wang

We study small oscillations of highly connected systems, which represent a limit opposite to the more familiar case of disordered crystals. As a concrete example we analyze the vibrational spectra of composite pendula. Remarkably, these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Joshua Feinberg , Roman Riser

The driving and excitation mechanisms of decay-less kink oscillations in coronal loops remain under debate. We aim to quantify and provide simple observational constraints on the photospheric driving of oscillating coronal loops in a few…

Coronal loops, seen in solar coronal images, are believed to represent emission from magnetic flux tubes with compact cross-sections. We examine the 3D structure of plasma above an active region in a radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 A. Malanushenko , M. C. M. Cheung , C. E. DeForest , J. A. Klimchuk , M. Rempel

Evolution of a coronal loop in response to an impulsive energy release is numerically modelled. It is shown that the loop density evolution curves exhibit quasi-periodic perturbations with the periods given approximately by the ratio of the…

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

Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping mechanisms. To understand these processes, we conduct 2.5D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Stephen J. Bradshaw

The standing slow magneto-acoustic oscillations in cooling coronal loops are investigated. There are two damping mechanisms which are considered to generate the standing acoustic modes in coronal magnetic loops namely thermal conduction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Khalil Salim Al-Ghafri

Analyses of recent helioseismic data have produced ample evidence for substantial dynamical variation of the differential rotation within the solar convection zone. Given the inevitable difficulties in resolving the precise nature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eurico Covas , David Moss , Reza Tavakol

We present a novel form of collective oscillatory behavior in the kinetics of irreversible coagulation with a constant input of monomers and removal of large clusters. For a broad class of collision rates, this system reaches a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-22 Robin C. Ball , Colm Connaughton , Peter P. Jones , R. Rajesh , Oleg Zaboronski