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Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are commonly observed in different coronal structures but are most prominent in active region fan loops. Their rapid damping with damping lengths of the order of a wavelength has been investigated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Suraj K. Tripathy , S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee

Observations show that transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and flows are often simultaneously present in magnetic loops of the solar corona. The waves are resonantly damped in the Alfv\'en continuum because of plasma and/or magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Roberto Soler

Magnetic reconnection and non-thermal particle distributions associated with current-driven instabilities are investigated by means of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations combined with relativistic test particle methods. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We investigate the interplay of phase mixing and the nonlinear turbulent cascade in the evolution and dissipation of Alfv\'en waves using compressible magnetohydrodynamics numerical simulations. We consider perturbations in the form of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Claudio Meringolo , Francesco Pucci , Giuseppe Nisticò , Oreste Pezzi , Sergio Servidio , Francesco Malara

We aim to study the standing fundamental kink mode of coronal loops in the nonlinear regime, investigating the changes in energy evolution in the cross-section and oscillation amplitude of the loop which are related to nonlinear effects, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere

To simulate the energy balance of coronal plasmas on macroscopic scales, we often require the specification of the coronal heating mechanism in some functional form. To go beyond empirical formulations and to build a more physically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Cooper Downs , Roberto Lionello , Zoran Mikić , Jon A. Linker , Marco Velli

Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been shown to be ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and can in principle carry sufficient energy to generate and maintain the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere or corona. However, direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Takenori J. Okamoto , Patrick Antolin , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

We present a method to assess the plausibility of alternative mechanisms to explain the damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) transverse waves in solar coronal loops. The considered mechanisms are resonant absorption of kink waves in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 M. Montes-Solís , I. Arregui

Slow magnetoacoustic waves were first detected in hot ($>$6 MK) flare loops by the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer as Doppler shift oscillations in Fe XIX and Fe XXI lines. Recently, such longitudinal waves have been found by SDO/AIA in the 94 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Elena Provornikova , Joseph M. Davila

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

Damped transverse oscillations of magnetic loops are routinely observed in the solar corona. This phenomenon is interpreted as standing kink magnetohydrodynamic waves, which are damped by resonant absorption owing to plasma inhomogeneity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Roberto Soler , Manuel Luna

Coronal flare emission is commonly observed to decay on timescales longer than those predicted by impulsively-driven, one-dimensional flare loop models. This discrepancy is most apparent during the gradual phase, where emission from these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 William Ashfield , Dana Longcope

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances (PDs) have been observed in large coronal loops in EUV images over a decade, and are widely accepted to be slow magnetosonic waves. However, spectroscopic observations from Hinode/EIS…

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

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

We study the evolution of non-linear circularly polarised Alfven waves by solving numerically the time-dependent equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one dimension. We examine the behaviour of the waves and find that different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rim Turkmani , Ulf Torkelsson

In the present paper, using MPI-AMRVAC, we perform a 2.5-D numerical MHD simulation of the dynamics and associated thermodynamical evolution of an initially force-free Harris current sheet subjected to an external velocity perturbation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sripan Mondal , Abhishek K Srivastava , David I. Pontin , Ding Yuan , Eric R. Priest

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

Slow magnetoacoustic waves represent an important tool for probing the solar coronal plasma. We quantitatively assess the applicability of the weak thermal conduction theory to coronal seismology by slow waves. We numerically model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code for the simulation of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere, under the effects of electrical resistivity, but not dominant, and heat transference in a uniform 3D grid. The code is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González