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Context. The structure and heating of coronal loops are investigated since decades. Established scaling laws relate fundamental quantities like the loop apex temperature, pressure, length, and the coronal heating. Aims. We test such scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Waves are important for the heating of the solar corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. We have examined a long spectral time series of a southern coronal hole observed on the 25th February 1997, with the SUMER spectrometer on-board…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. R. Gupta , E. O'Shea , D. Banerjee , M. Popescu , J. G. Doyle

Long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry are carried out, within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), to understand coronal heating driven by motion of field lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi , R. B. Dahlburg

Kink oscillations of a coronal loop are observed and studied in detail because they provide a unique probe into the structure of coronal loops through MHD seismology and a potential test of coronal heating through the phase-mixing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 P. Pagano , D. J. Pascoe , I. De Moortel

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

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

Kink oscillations are frequently observed in coronal loops. This work aims to numerically clarify the influence of loop curvature on horizontally and vertically polarized kink oscillations. Working within the framework of ideal MHD, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Mingzhe Guo , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Bo Li , Marcel Goossens

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

A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

Acoustic waves and pulses propagating from the solar photosphere upwards may quickly develop into shocks due to the rapid decrease of atmospheric density. However, if they propagate along a magnetic flux tube, then the nonlinear steepening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-09 T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Kukhianidze , M. L. Khodachenko

We present the first observations of spatially resolved oscillation sources obtained with the Siberian Radioheliograph (SRH) at 3-6 GHz. We have found significant flux oscillations with periods of about 3, 5 and 13 minutes emitted from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-06 Robert Sych , Alexander Altyntsev

Solar coronal loops are commonly subject to oscillations. Observations of coronal oscillations are used to infer physical properties of the coronal plasma using coronal seismology. Excitation and evolution of oscillations in coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 P. Kohutova , A. Popovas

Many phenomena seen in solar atmosphere are connected with underphotospheric processes. MHD oscillation and other dynamical processes observed in quit sun objects are, for example, these phenomena. In our research we use Stereo Behind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 S. Anfinogentov , R. Sych , D. Prosovetsky

The transport of waves and turbulence beyond the photosphere is central to the coronal heating problem. Turbulence in the quiet solar corona has been modeled on the basis of the nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (NI MHD) theory to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Gary P. Zank , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi

We investigate intensity oscillations observed simultaneously in the quiet chromosphere and in the corona, above an enhanced network area at the boundary of an equatorial coronal hole. A Fourier analysis is applied to a sequence of images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 H. Tian , L. -D. Xia

The collective transverse coronal loop oscillations seem to be detected in the observational studies. In this regard, Luna et al. (2009, ApJ, 692, 1582) modeled the collective kinklike normal modes of several cylindrical loops system using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-02 Narges Fathalian , Hossein Safari

While standing fast sausage modes in flare loops are often invoked to interpret quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares, it is unclear as to how they are influenced by the combined effects of a continuous transverse structuring and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Ming Xiong , Hui Yu , Ming-Zhe Guo

MHD wave propagation inside the Sun's atmosphere is closely related to the magnetic field topology. For example, magnetic fields are able to lower the cutoff frequency for acoustic waves thus allowing waves which would otherwise be trapped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Stangalini , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , S. M. Jefferies

Magnetohydrodynamic waves are important for diagnosing the physical parameters of coronal plasmas. Field-aligned flows appear frequently in coronal loops.We examine the effects of transverse density and plasma flow structuring on standing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Bo Li , Shao-Xia Chen , Li-Dong Xia , Hui Yu

We performed 2.5D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations showing the propagation of fast-mode MHD waves of different initial amplitudes and their interaction with a coronal hole (CH), using our newly developed numerical code. We find that…