Friday, February 10, 2012

1202.1944 (Ineke De Moortel et al.)

MHD Waves and Coronal Seismology: an overview of recent results    [PDF]

Ineke De Moortel, Valery M. Nakariakov
Recent observations have revealed that MHD waves and oscillations are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, with a wide range of periods. We give a brief review of some aspects of MHD waves and coronal seismology which have recently been the focus of intense debate or are newly emerging. In particular, we focus on four topics: (i) the current controversy surrounding propagating intensity perturbations along coronal loops, (ii) the interpretation of propagating transverse loop oscillations, (iii) the ongoing search for coronal (torsional) Alfven waves and (iv) the rapidly developing topic of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) in solar flares.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1944

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