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Decayless kink oscillations are omnipresent in the solar atmosphere and a viable candidate for coronal heating. Though there have been extensive studies of decayless oscillations in coronal loops with a few hundred Mm lengths, the…

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

A coronal loop of 290~Mm length, observed at 171~\AA\ with SDO/AIA on February 6th 2024 near AR 13571, is found to oscillate with two significantly different oscillation periods, $48.8 \pm 6.1$~min and $4.8\pm 0.3$~min. The oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

Imaging microwave observations of an eruptive, partially occulted solar flare on 18 April 2001 suggest that the global structure of the event can be described by the helical kink instability of a twisted magnetic flux rope. This model is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Karlický , B. Kliem

In this work, we report our multi-wavelength observations of the transverse oscillation of a large scale coronal loop with a length of 350 Mm. The oscillation was induced by a blowout coronal jet, which was related to a circular ribbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 J. Dai , Q. M. Zhang , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji

A magnetic flux rope (FR), hosting hot plasma, is thought to be central to the physics of coronal mass ejection. Such FRs are widely observed with passbands of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Leping Li , Hongqiang Song , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

We firstly report the simultaneous activities of a slipping motion of flare loops and a slipping eruption of a flux rope in 131 {\AA} and 94 {\AA} channels on 2014 February 02. The east hook-like flare ribbon propagated slippingly at a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

We firstly present the Solar Dynamics Observatory observations of four homologous flux ropes in active region (AR) 11745 on 2013 May 20-22. The four flux ropes are all above the neutral line of the AR, with endpoints anchoring at the same…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

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

We present the quasi-periodic slipping motion of flux rope structures prior to the onset of an eruptive X-class flare on 2015 March 11, obtained by the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\emph{IRIS}) and the \emph{Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ting Li , Kai Yang , Yijun Hou , Jun Zhang

Despite intensive studies of kink oscillations of coronal loops in the last decade, a large scale statistically significant investigation of the oscillation parameters has not been made using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 C. R. Goddard , G. Nistic`o , V. M. Nakariakov , I. V. Zimovets

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

The signatures of energy release and energy transport for a kink-unstable coronal flux rope are investigated via forward modelling. Synthetic intensity and Doppler maps are generated from a 3D numerical simulation. The CHIANTI database is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Snow , Gert J. J. Botha , Stephane Regnier , Richard J. Morton , Erwin Verwichte , Peter R Young

We present the multi-wavelength observations of a flux rope that was trying to erupt from NOAA AR 11045 and the associated M-class solar flare on 12 February 2010 using space and ground based observations from TRACE, STEREO, SOHO/MDI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. Filippov , R. Erdelyi , Wahab Uddin

Recent observations with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on the SDO spacecraft have revealed the existence of decayless coronal kink oscillations. These transverse oscillations are not connected to any external phenomena…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-06 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , D. J. Pascoe , M. Guo , P. Antolin

Magnetic flux ropes are a key component of coronal mass ejections, forming the core of these eruptive phenomena. However, determining whether a flux rope is present prior to eruption onset and, if so, the rope's handedness and the number of…

The helical kink instability of a twisted magnetic flux tube has been suggested as a trigger mechanism for solar filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In order to investigate if estimations of the pre-eruptive twist can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tibor Torok , Bernhard Kliem , Mitchell A. Berger , Mark G. Linton , Pascal Demoulin , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

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

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

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

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