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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

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

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

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

We develop a model of coronal-loop oscillations that treats the observed bright loops as an integral part of a larger 3-D magnetic structure comprised of the entire magnetic arcade. We demonstrate that magnetic arcades within the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

{Observations of the solar atmosphere have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves are ubiquitous throughout. Improvements in instrumentation and the techniques used for measurement of the waves now enables subtleties of competing theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 R. J. Morton , K. Mooroogen

Images of the solar corona by extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) telescopes reveal elegant arches of glowing plasma that trace the corona's magnetic field. Typically, these loops are preferentially illuminated segments of an arcade of vaulted field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

Little attention has been paid to group velocities of three-dimensional (3D) MHD waves in solar coronal seismology. This study aims to present a rather comprehensive examination on the group velocities of trapped 3D kink modes in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jing Liu , Bo Li , Mijie Shi , Mingzhe Guo , Hui Yu

Rapidly decaying long-period oscillations often occur in hot coronal loops of active regions associated with small (or micro-) flares. This kind of wave activity was first discovered with the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer from Doppler velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Ding Yuan , Fabio Reale , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Abhishek K. Srivastava

The first evidence of transverse oscillations of a multistranded loop with growing amplitudes and internal coupling observed by the Atomspheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is presented. The loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Joseph M. Davila , Yang Su

Understanding the effects of the lower solar atmosphere on the spectrum of standing kink oscillations of coronal loops, in both the decaying and decayless regime, is essential for developing more advanced tools for coronal seismology. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Konstantinos Karampelas , Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Yuhang Gao

The spatial variation of physical quantities, such as the mass density, across solar atmospheric waveguides governs the timescales and spatial scales for wave damping and energy dissipation. The direct measurement of the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 I. Arregui , R. Soler , A. Asensio Ramos

Coronal loops are plasma structures in the solar atmosphere with temperatures reaching millions of Kelvin, shaped and sustained by the magnetic field. However, their morphology and fundamental nature remain subjects of debate. By studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 N. Vasantharaju , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves are ubiquitously observed in the solar atmosphere. The propagation and damping of these waves may play relevant roles for the transport and dissipation of energy in the solar atmospheric medium. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Alfv\'enic motions are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and their observed properties are closely linked to those of photospheric p-modes. However, it is still unclear how a predominantly acoustic wave driver can produce these transverse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Samuel Skirvin , Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Aims: We quantify the effects of twisted magnetic fields on the development of the magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in transversely oscillating coronal loops. Methods: We modelled a fundamental standing kink mode in a straight,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin

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

We explore the possible observational signatures of different types of kink modes (horizontal and vertical oscillations in their fundamental mode and second harmonic) that may arise in coronal loops, with the aim of determining how well the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 T. J. Wang , S. K. Solanki , M. Selwa

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitously observed in the solar atmosphere. Kink waves are a type of transverse MHD waves in magnetic flux tubes that are damped due to resonant absorption. The theoretical study of kink MHD waves in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver

We aim to provide more insights into the applicability to solar coronal seismology of the much-studied discrete leaky modes (DLMs) in classic analyses. Under linear ideal pressureless MHD, we examine two-dimensional (2D) axial fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Yuhong Gao , Bo Li , Mijie Shi , Shaoxia Chen , Hui Yu
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