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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 Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) has opened up exciting opportunities to probe transverse MHD waves in the Sun's corona. The archive of CoMP data is utilised to generate a catalogue of quiescent coronal loops that can be used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Ajay K. Tiwari , Richard J. Morton , James A. McLaughlin

The driving and excitation mechanisms of decay-less kink oscillations in coronal loops remain under debate. We aim to quantify and provide simple observational constraints on the photospheric driving of oscillating coronal loops in a few…

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves have been observed frequently in solar coronal flux tubes, which makes them a great tool for seismology of the solar corona. Here, the effect of viscosity is studied on the evolution of kink waves. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Roberto Soler , Kayoomars Karami

Context. In the coronal open-field regions, such as coronal holes, there are many transverse waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes, generally interpreted as kink waves. Previous studies have highlighted their potential in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hui Tian , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen

In the past few years observations by high-resolution space imaging telescopes and spectrometers have confirmed that a great variety of MHD waves are supported in the solar corona of a low-beta plasma and fine structure. MHD waves are an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tongjiang Wang

Magnetohydrodynamic waves are believed to play a significant role in coronal heating, and could be used for remote diagnostics of solar plasma. Both the heating and diagnostic applications rely on a correct inversion (or backward modelling)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ding Yuan , Tom Van Doorsselaere

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

We present an alternative model of coronal-loop oscillations which considers that the waves are trapped in a 2D waveguide formed by the entire arcade of field lines. This differs from the standard 1D model which treats the waves as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

Twisted magnetic fields should be ubiquitous in flare-producing active regions where the magnetic fields are strongly non-potential. It has been shown that reconnection in helical magnetic coronal loops results in plasma heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. F. Pinto , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , N. Vilmer

Context: Relaxation theory offers a straightforward method for estimating the energy that is released when a magnetic field becomes unstable, as a result of continual convective driving. Aims: We present new results obtained from nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael Bareford , Alan Hood , Philippa Browning

In the quest to solve the long-standing coronal heating problem, it has been suggested half a century ago that coronal loops could be heated by waves. Despite the accumulating observational evidence of the possible importance of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas , Bo Li , Patrick Antolin

We numerically follow the response of density-enhanced slabs to impulsive, localized, transverse velocity perturbations by working in the framework of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Both linear and nonlinear regimes are addressed. Kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Mingzhe Guo , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mijie Shi

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

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are often invoked to interpret quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares. We study the response of a straight flare loop to a kink-like velocity perturbation using three-dimensional MHD simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Mijie Shi , Bo Li , Shao-Xia Chen , Mingzhe Guo , Shengju Yuan

Large-amplitude decaying kink oscillations of coronal loops are strongly influenced by nonlinear processes, such as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and turbulence, though comprehensive theory and observational confirmation remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

Magnetic arcades in the solar atmosphere, or coronal loops, are common structures known to host magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations. Of particular interest are the observed properties of transverse loop oscillations, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Farhad Allian , Rekha Jain

Kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied for their potential contributions to coronal heating and their role in plasma diagnostics through coronal seismology. A key focus is the strong damping of large-amplitude kink…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sihui Zhong , Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui

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