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Solar coronal loops represent the variety of fast, intermediate, and slow normal mode oscillations. In this study, the transverse oscillations of the loops with a few-minutes period and also with damping caused by the resonant absorption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Javad Ganjali , Nastaran Farhang , Shahriar Esmaeili , Mohsen Javaherian , Hossein Safari

State-of-the-art MHD calculations reveal acceptable agreement with observational data for the height profile of the temperature $T(h)$ in the transition region of solar corona. Simultaneously, the velocity of the solar wind $U(h)$ has also…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 A. M. Varonov

The standing slow magneto-acoustic oscillations in cooling coronal loops are investigated. There are two damping mechanisms which are considered to generate the standing acoustic modes in coronal magnetic loops namely thermal conduction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Khalil Salim Al-Ghafri

Kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are frequently observed in various magnetic structures of the solar atmosphere. They may contribute significantly to coronal heating and could be used as a tool to diagnose the solar plasma. In this…

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

8000 images of the Solar corona were captured during the June 2001 total Solar eclipse. New software for the alignment of the images and an automated technique for detecting intensity oscillations using multi scale wavelet analysis were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Katsiyannis , F. Murtagh

Central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei host hot plasma with a temperature of $10^9$ K, namely coronae. Like the Sun, black hole coronae are theoretically believed to be heated by their magnetic activity, which have never…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Akihiro Doi

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

The characteristic electron densities, temperatures, and thermal distributions of 1MK active region loops are now fairly well established, but their coronal magnetic field strengths remain undetermined. Here we present measurements from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Enrico Landi

The coronal magnetic field, despite its overwhelming importance to the physics and dynamics of the corona, has only rarely been measured. Here, the electron density maps derived from images acquired during the total solar eclipse of August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alessandro Bemporad

Solar prominence models used so far in the analysis of MHD waves in such structures are quite elementary. In this work, we calculate numerically magnetohydrostatic models in two-dimensional configurations under the presence of gravity. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Terradas , R. Soler , A. J. Díaz , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Coronal loops, constituting the basic building blocks of the active Sun, serve as primary targets to help understand the mechanisms responsible for maintaining multi-million Kelvin temperatures in the solar and stellar coronae. Despite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , J. A. Klimchuk , D. Banerjee

Magnetic loops are building blocks of the closed-field corona. While active region loops are readily seen in images taken at EUV and X-ray wavelengths, quiet Sun loops are seldom identifiable and therefore difficult to study on an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhenguang Huang , Richard A. Frazin , Enrico Landi , Ward B. Manchester , Alberto M. Vásquez , Tamas I. Gombosi

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are believed to be at the heart of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A well-known example is the prominence cavity in the low corona that sometimes makes up a three-part white-light (WL) CME upon its eruption.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bin Chen , Timothy S. Bastian , Dale E. Gary

The phenomenon of peripheral coronal loop contraction during solar flares and eruptions, recently discovered in observations, gradually intrigues solar physicists. However, its underlying physical mechanism is still uncertain. One is Hudson…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Juntao Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Ding Yuan , Peng Zou

We detect and analyse transverse oscillations in a coronal loop, lying at the south east limb of the Sun as seen from the \textit{{Atmospheric Imaging Assembly}} (AIA) onboard \textit{{Solar Dynamics Observatory}} (SDO). The jet is believed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 S. Sarkar , V. Pant , A. K. Srivastava , D. Banerjee

Observations revealed that various kinds of oscillations are excited in solar flare regions. Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in the flare emissions are commonly observed in a wide range of wavelengths. Recent observations have found that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Shinsuke Takasao , Kazunari Shibata

The heating of the lower solar corona is examined using numerical simulations and theoretical models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in open magnetic regions. A turbulent energy cascade to small length scales perpendicular to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Dmitruk , W. H. Matthaeus , L. J. Milano , S. Oughton , G. P. Zank , D. J. Mullan

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

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

Recent observations by Hinode/SOT show that MHD waves and mass flows are simultaneously present in the fine structure of solar prominences. We investigate standing kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in flowing prominence threads from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberto Soler , Marcel Goossens