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Given the recent interest in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in pores and sunspot umbrae, we examine the damping of slow surface kink modes (SSKMs) by modeling solar photospheric waveguides with a cylindrical inhomogeneity comprising a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Marcel Goossens , Hui Yu , Michael Geeraerts

Standing sausage modes are important in interpreting quasi-periodic pulsations in the lightcurves of solar flares. Their periods and damping times play an important role in seismologically diagnosing key parameters like the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Li-Dong Xia , Hui Yu

Decayless kink oscillations, which are nearly omnipresent in the solar corona, are believed to be driven by continuously operating energy supply. In this letter, we investigate an external continuous excitation of an apparent decayless…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Dong Li , Zhentong Li , Fanpeng Shi , Yang Su , Wei Chen , Fu Yu , Chuan Li , Ye Qiu , Yu Huang , Zongjun Ning

Some observations suggest that solar spicules show small amplitude and high frequency oscillations of magneto-acoustic waves, which arise from photospheric granular forcing. We apply the method of MHD seismology to determine the period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Ajabshirizadeh , E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

We describe the long-term evolution of a bipolar non-Hale active region which was observed from October, 1995, to January, 1996. Along these four solar rotations the sunspots and subsequent flux concentrations, during the decay phase of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. C. López Fuentes , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi

Small-scale, cyclic, transverse motions of plasma threads are usually seen in solar prominences, which are often interpreted as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Here, we observed small-scale decayless transverse oscillations in a quiescent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Dong Li , Jianchao Xue , Ding Yuan , Zongjun Ning

In coronal loop modeling, it is commonly assumed that the loops are semi-circular with a uniform cross-sectional area. However, observed loops are rarely semi-circular, and extrapolations of the magnetic field show that the field strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jeffrey W. Reep , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , Will T. Barnes

We investigate standing kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations in a prominence fine structure modeled as a straight and cylindrical magnetic tube only partially filled with the prominence material, and with its ends fixed at two rigid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roberto Soler , Inigo Arregui , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

With the high spatial and temporal resolution H$\alpha$ images from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope, we focus on two groups of loops with a X-shaped configuration in the dynamic chromosphere. We find that the anti-directed loops approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Shuhong Yang , Yongyuan Xiang

A number of recent investigations have revealed that transverse waves are ubiquitous in the solar chromosphere. The vast majority of these have been reported in limb spicules and active region fibrils. We investigate long-lived, quiet Sun,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Kuridze , R. J. Morton , R. Erdélyi , G. D. Dorrian , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , F. P. Keenan

We analyse the oscillatory properties of resonantly damped transverse kink oscillations in two-dimensional prominence threads. The fine structures are modelled as cylindrically symmetric magnetic flux tubes with a dense central part with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Arregui , R. Soler , J. L. Ballester , A. N. Wright

We study a model of particle acceleration coupled with an MHD model of magnetic reconnection in unstable twisted coronal loops. The kink instability leads to the formation of helical currents with strong parallel electric fields resulting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , E. P. Kontar , N. H. Bian

One of the mechanisms proposed for heating the corona above solar active regions is the damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Continuing on previous work, we provide observational evidence for the existence of high-frequency MHD waves…

We use images of high spatial and temporal resolution, obtained using both ground- and space-based instrumentation, to investigate the role magnetic field inclination angles play in the propagation characteristics of running penumbral waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. B. Jess , V. E. Reznikova , T. Van Doorsselaere , P. H. Keys , D. H. Mackay

In recent years, coronal loops have been the focus of studies related to the damping of different magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) surface waves and their connection with coronal seismology and wave heating. For a better understanding of wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Guo

Context. Recent observations of decayless transverse oscillations have shown two branches in the relationship between periods and loop lengths. One is a linear relationship, interpreted as a standing mode. The other shows almost no…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Yuhang Gao , David Berghmans

Solar flares are associated with intense soft X-ray emission generated by the hot flaring plasma. Kink unstable twisted flux-ropes provide a source of magnetic energy which can be released impulsively and account for the flare plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 R. F. Pinto , N. Vilmer , A. S. Brun

Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration due to the kink instability in twisted coronal loops can be a viable scenario for confined solar flares. Detailed investigation of this phenomenon requires reliable methods for observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

Aims. We investigate the transfer of energy between a standing kink mode and azimuthal Alfven waves within an expanding flux tube. We consider the process of resonant absorption in a loop with a non-uniform Alfven frequency profile but in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Andrew Wright