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We consider the situation where a spin-induced wavy perturbation is present on disks of neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries. By non-linearly coupling with the perturbation, some modes of disk oscillations resonantly interact with the…

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Microwave emission of solar flares is formed primarily by incoherent gyrosynchrotron radiation generated by accelerated electrons in coronal magnetic loops. The resulting emission depends on many factors, including pitch-angle distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita , Gregory D. Fleishman

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

Recent high-resolution observations of sunspot oscillations using simultaneously operated ground- and space-based telescopes reveal the intrinsic connection between different layers of the solar atmosphere. However, it is not clear whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , Elena Khomenko

Magnetic reconnection and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves may well be both playing a role in coronal heating. In this paper, we simulate reconnection in the corona as a response to the convergence of opposite-polarity magnetic sources at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sripan Mondal , A. K. Srivastava , David I. Pontin , Eric R. Priest

The P1/P2 period ratio of transversal loop oscillations is currently used for the diagnostics of longitudinal structuring of coronal loops as its deviation from 2 is intrinsically connected to the density scale-height along coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 B. Orza , I. Ballai , R. Jain , K. Murawski

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances 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 revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 X. Fang , D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , R. Keppens , C. Xia

We describe microwave and hard X-ray observations of strong quasiperiodic pulsations from the GOES X1.3 solar flare on 15 June 2003. The radio observations were made jointly by the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), the Nobeyama Polarimeter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. D. Fleishman , T. S. Bastian , D. E. Gary

We investigate numerically the time evolution of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in a coronal loop, focusing on the dynamics due to both phase mixing and turbulent cascade. The intensity, doppler velocity and non-thermal broadening…

Understanding the relationship among different emission components plays an essential role in the study of particle acceleration and energy conversion in solar flares. In flares where gradual and impulsive emission components can be readily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Siming Liu , Youping Li , Lyndsay Fletcher

Quasi-periodic fast-propagating (QFP) wave trains are a distinctive form of magnetohydrodynamic disturbance frequently observed in the solar corona. Yet their excitation mechanism and propagation characteristics are not well understood. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tongjiang Wang , Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Meng Jin

A recent study by Nakariakov et al. pointed out that the dispersion relation of MHD sausage mode oscillations has been incorrectly applied to coronal loops, neglecting the highly dispersive nature of the phase speed and the long-wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus J. Aschwanden , Valery M. Nakariakov , Victor F. Melnikov

We simulate transverse oscillations in radiatively cooling coronal loops and forward-model their spectroscopic and imaging signatures, paying attention to the influence of background emission. The transverse oscillations are driven at one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Patrick Antolin , Bo Li

The feature of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) is frequently observed in the light curve of solar and stellar flares. In this letter, we investigated the QPP at a shorter period in high-energy channels of HXRs and Ggamma-ray continuum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Dong Li

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Seismology of coronal loops using observations of damped transverse oscillations in combination with results from theoretical models is a tool to indirectly infer physical parameters in the solar atmospheric plasma. Existing seismology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver

The cause of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) in solar flares remains the subject of debate. Recently, Nakariakov & Zimovets (2011) proposed a new model suggesting that, in two-ribbon flares, such pulsations could be explained by propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 A. R. Inglis , B. R. Dennis

Quasi-periodic propagating disturbances in coronal structures have been interpreted as slow magneto-acoustic waves and/or periodic upflows. Here we aim to understand their nature from the observed properties using a three-hour imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , T. Van Doorsselaere , J. Singh

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…

QFP wave trains in the corona have been studied intensively in the past decade, thanks to the full-disk, high spatiotemporal resolution, and wide-temperature coverage observations taken by the SDO/AIA. In AIA observations, QFP wave trains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Yuandeng Shen , Xinping Zhou , Yadan Duan , Zehao Tang , Chengrui Zhou , Song Tan