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TRACE observations from 15 April 2001 of transverse oscillations in coronal loops of a post-flare loop arcade are investigated. They are considered to be standing fast kink oscillations. Oscillation signatures such as displacement amplitude, period, phase and damping time are deduced from 9 loops as a function of distance along the loop length. Multiple oscillation modes are found with different amplitude profile along the loop length, suggesting the presence of a second harmonic. The damping times are consistent with the hypothesis of phase mixing and resonant absorption, although there is a clear bias towards longer damping times compared with previous studies. The coronal magnetic field strength and coronal shear viscosity in the loop arcade are derived. 相似文献
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A. Abedini 《Solar physics》2018,293(2):22
The excitation and damping of the transversal coronal loop oscillations and quantitative relation between damping time, damping property (damping time per period), oscillation amplitude, dissipation mechanism and the wake phenomena are investigated. The observed time series data with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite on 2015 March 2, consisting of 400 consecutive images with 12 s cadence in the 171 \(\mathring{\mathrm{A}}\) pass band is analyzed for evidence of transversal oscillations along the coronal loops by the Lomb–Scargle periodgram. In this analysis signatures of transversal coronal loop oscillations that are damped rapidly were found with dominant oscillation periods in the range of \(\mathrm{P}=12.25\,\text{--}\,15.80\) min. Also, damping times and damping properties of the transversal coronal loop oscillations at dominant oscillation periods are estimated in the range of \({\tau_{\mathrm{d}}=11.76}\,\text{--}\,{21.46}\) min and \({\tau_{\mathrm{d}}/\mathrm{P}=0.86}\,\text{--}\,{1.49}\), respectively. The observational results of this analysis show that damping properties decrease slowly with increasing amplitude of the oscillation, but the periods of the oscillations are not sensitive functions of the amplitude of the oscillations. The order of magnitude of the damping properties and damping times are in good agreement with previous findings and the theoretical prediction for damping of kink mode oscillations by the dissipation mechanism. Furthermore, oscillations of the loop segments attenuate with time roughly as \(t^{-\alpha}\) and the magnitude values of \(\alpha\) for 30 different segments change from 0.51 to 0.75. 相似文献
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Equations of thermal equilibrium along coronal loops with footpoint temperatures of 2 × 104 K are solved. Three fundamentally different categories of solution are found, namely hot loops with summit temperatures above about 4 × 105 K, cool loops which are cooler than 8 × 104 K along their whole length and hot-cool loops which have summit temperatures around 2 × 104 K but much hotter parts at intermediate points between the summit and the footpoints. Hot loops correspond to the hot corona of the Sun. The cool loops are of relevance for fibrils, for the cool cores observed by Foukal and also for active-region prominences where the magnetic field is directed mainly along the prominence. Quiescent prominences consist of many cool threads inclined to the prominence axis, and each thread may be modelled as a hot-cool loop. In addition, it is possible for warm loops at intermediate summit temperatures (8 × 104K to 4 × 105 K) to exist, but the observed differential emission measure suggests that most of the plasma in the solar atmosphere is in either the hot phase or the cool phase. Thermal catastrophe may occur when the length or pressure of a loop is so small that the hot solution ceases to exist and there are only cool loop solutions. Many loops can be superimposed to form a coronal arcade which contains loops of several different types. 相似文献
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We investigate the damping of longitudinal (i.e., slow or acoustic) waves in nonisothermal, hot (T≥ 5.0 MK), gravitationally stratified coronal loops. Motivated by SOHO/SUMER and Yohkoh/SXT observations, and by taking into account a range of dissipative mechanisms such as thermal conduction, compressive viscosity, radiative cooling, and heating, the nonlinear governing equations of one-dimensional hydrodynamics are solved numerically for standing-wave oscillations along a magnetic field line. A semicircular shape is chosen to represent the geometry of the coronal loop. It was found that the decay time of standing waves decreases with the increase of the initial temperature, and the periods of oscillations are affected by the different initial footpoint temperatures and loop lengths studied by the numerical experiments. In general, the period of oscillation of standing waves increases and the damping time decreases when the parameter that characterises the temperature at the apex of the loop increases for a fixed footpoint temperature and loop length. A relatively simple second-order scaling polynomial between the damping time and the parameter determining the apex temperature is found. This scaling relation is proposed to be tested observationally. Because of the lack of a larger, statistically relevant number of observational studies of the damping of longitudinal (slow) standing oscillations, it can only be concluded that the numerically predicted decay times are well within the range of values inferred from Doppler shifts observed by SUMER in hot coronal loops. 相似文献
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A coronal magnetic arcade can be thought of as consisting of an assembly of coronal loops. By solving equations of thermal equilibrium along each loop and assuming a base temperature of 2 × 104 K, the thermal structure of the arcade can be found. By assuming a form for the plasma pressure in the arcade, the possible thermal structures can be shown to depend on three parameters. Arcades can contain hot loops with summits hotter than 400 000 K, cool loops at temperatures less than 80 000 K along their lengths, hot-cool loops with cool summits and cool footpoints but hotter intermediate portions, and warm loops, cooler than 80 000 K along most of their lengths but with summits as hot as 400 000 K. For certain arcades, there exist regions where more than one kind of loop is possible. If the parameters describing the arcade are varied, it is possible for non-equilibrium to occur when a type of solution ceases to exist. For example, hot or warm loops can cease to exist so that only cool solutions are possible when the arcade size or pressure is decreased, while warm or cool loops may give way to hot-cool loops when the heating is reduced or the pressure is increased. 相似文献
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In this paper, we give a detailed discussion of the parameters of longitudinal oscillations in coronal loops, described in Paper I. We found a surprising absence of correlations between the measured variables, with the exception of a relation between the estimated damping length and the period of the intensity variations. Only for 2 out of the 38 cases presented in Paper I did we find a significant perturbation in the 195 Å TRACE data. The loops supporting the propagating disturbances were typically stable, quiescent loops and the total luminosity of the analyzed structures generally varied by no more than 10%. The observed density oscillations are unlikely to be flare-driven and are probably caused by an underlying driver exciting the loop footpoints. It was demonstrated that the rapid damping of the perturbations could not simply be explained as a consequence of the decreasing intensity along the loops. However, we found that (slightly enhanced) thermal conduction alone could account for the observed damping lengths and wavelengths, and, additionally, explain the correlation between propagation period and damping length. 相似文献
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We investigate the effect of a variable, i.e. time-dependent, background on the standing acoustic (i.e. longitudinal) modes generated in a hot coronal loop. A theoretical model of 1D geometry describing the coronal loop is applied. The background temperature is allowed to change as a function of time and undergoes an exponential decay with characteristic cooling times typical for coronal loops. The magnetic field is assumed to be uniform. Thermal conduction is assumed to be the dominant mechanism for damping hot coronal oscillations in the presence of a physically unspecified thermodynamic source that maintains the initial equilibrium. The influence of the rapidly cooling background plasma on the behaviour of standing acoustic (longitudinal) waves is investigated analytically. The temporally evolving dispersion relation and wave amplitude are derived by using the Wenzel–Kramers–Brillouin theory. An analytic solution for the time-dependent amplitude that describes the influence of thermal conduction on the standing longitudinal (acoustic) wave is obtained by exploiting the properties of Sturm–Liouville problems. Next, numerical evaluations further illustrate the behaviour of the standing acoustic waves in a system with a variable, time-dependent background. The results are applied to a number of detected loop oscillations. We find a remarkable agreement between the theoretical predictions and the observations. Despite the emergence of the cooling background plasma in the medium, thermal conduction is found to cause a strong damping for the slow standing magneto–acoustic waves in hot coronal loops in general. In addition to this, the increase in the value of thermal conductivity leads to a strong decay in the amplitude of the longitudinal standing slow MHD waves. 相似文献
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A coronal magnetic arcade can be thought of as consisting of an assembly of coronal loops. By solving equations of isobaric thermal equilibrium along each loop and assuming a base temperature of 2 × 104 K, the thermal structure of the arcade can be found. The possible thermal equilibria can be shown to depend on two parameters L
*
p
* and h
*/p
* representing the ratios of cooling (radiation) to condu and heating to cooling, respectively. Arcades can contain four types of loops: hot loops with summits hotter than 400000 K; cool loops at temperatures less than 80000 K along their lengths; hot-cool loops with cool summits and cool footpoints but hotter intermediate portions; and warm loops, cooler than 80000 K along most of their lengths but with summits as hot as 400000 K. Two possibilities for coronal heating are considered, namely a heating that is independent of magnetic field and a heating that is proportional to the square of the local magnetic field. When the arcade is sheared the thermal structure of the arcade may change, leading in some cases to non-equilibrium or in other cases to the formation of a cool core. 相似文献
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M. S. Ruderman 《Solar physics》2011,271(1-2):41-54
In this paper we study kink oscillations of coronal loops with the density varying along the loop and also slowly changing with time. Using the Wentzel?CKramers?CBrillouin (WKB) method we obtain the adiabatic invariant that determines the time dependence of the oscillation amplitude. The obtained general results are applied to kink oscillations of cooling loops. The main conclusion of this study is that cooling causes the amplification of kink oscillations. 相似文献
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The damping of fast kink oscillations of solar coronal loops attributable to the radiation of MHD waves into the surroundings is considered in the thin-tube approximation. The oscillation damping decrement is calculated both by using a new energy method and by solving the dispersion equation for magnetic-tube eigenmodes. The two approaches are in good agreement under appropriate assumptions. The damping is negligible if MHD waves are radiated perpendicular to the magnetic field. The low Q factor of the loop oscillations in active regions found with the TRACE space telescope is associated with the generation of running waves that propagate along magnetic field lines. 相似文献
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M. S. Ruderman 《Solar physics》2010,267(2):377-391
In this paper we study kink oscillations of coronal loops in the presence of flows. Using the thin-tube approximation we derive
the general governing equation for kink oscillations of a loop with the density varying along the loop in the presence of
flows. This equation remains valid even when the density and flow are time dependent. The derived equation is then used to
study the effect of flows on eigenfrequencies of kink oscillations of coronal loops. The implication of the obtained results
on coronal seismology is discussed. 相似文献
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In this paper, we determine the temperature profile along the footpoints of large coronal loops observed by TRACE in both the 171 Å and 195 Å passbands. The temperature along the lower part of these coronal loops only shows small variations and can probably be considered to be isothermal. Using the obtained temperature profile T(s) and an estimate of the column depth along the loop, we then determine the pressure along the lower part of the observed coronal loops and hence the value of the pressure scale length. The obtained scale lengths correspond in order-of-magnitude with the theoretically predicted gravitational scale height. We show that the differences between the observed and predicted scale heights are unlikely to be caused by (significant) flows along the loops but could possibly be a consequence of the inclination of the loops. This implies that the quasi-periodic intensity oscillations observed in the loops are most probably caused by compressive waves propagating upward at the coronal sound speed. 相似文献
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The damping of standing slow waves in hot (T>6 MK) coronal loops of semicircular shape is revisited in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. Dissipation by thermal conduction,
compressive viscosity, radiative cooling, and heating are examined for nonstratified and stratified loops. We find that for
typical conditions of hot SUMER loops, thermal conduction increases the period of damped oscillations over the sound-crossing
time, whereas the decay times are mostly shaped by compressive viscosity. Damping from optically thin radiation is negligible.
We also find that thermal conduction alone results in slower damping of the density and velocity waves compared to the observations.
Only when compressive viscosity is added do these waves damp out at the same rate as the observed rapidly decaying modes of
hot SUMER loop oscillations, in contrast to most current work, which has pointed to thermal conduction as the dominant mechanism.
We compare the linear predictions with numerical hydrodynamic calculations. Under the effects of gravity, nonlinear viscous
dissipation leads to a reduction of the decay time compared to the homogeneous case. In contrast, the linear results predict
that the damping rates are barely affected by gravity. 相似文献
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We use linear analysis to simulate the evolution of a coronal loop in response to a localized impulsive event. The disturbance is modeled by injecting a narrow Gaussian velocity pulse near one footpoint of a loop in equilibrium. Three different damping mechanisms, namely viscosity, thermal conduction, and optically thin radiation, are included in the loop calculations. We consider homogeneous and gravitationally stratified, isothermal loops of varying length (50≤L≤400 Mm) and temperature (2≤T≤10 MK). We find that a localized pulse can effectively excite slow magnetoacoustic waves that propagate up along the loop. The amplitudes of the oscillations increase with decreasing loop temperature and increasing loop length and size of the pulse width. At T≥4 MK, the waves are dissipated by the combined effects of viscosity and thermal conduction, whereas at temperatures of 2 MK, or lower, wave dissipation is governed by radiative cooling. We predict periods in the range of 4.6?–?41.6 minutes. The wave periods remain unaltered by variations of the pulse size, decrease with the loop temperature, and increase almost linearly with the loop length. In addition, gravitational stratification results in a small reduction of the periods and amplification of the waves as they propagate up along the loop. 相似文献
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We study transverse loop oscillations triggered by 17flares and filament destabilizations; only 2 such cases have been reported
in the literature until now. Oscillation periods are estimated to range over a factor of ∼15, with most values between 2 and
7 min. The oscillations are excited by filament destabilizations or flares (in 6% of the 255 flares inspected, ranging from
about C3 to X2). There is no clear dependence of oscillation amplitude on flare magnitude. Oscillations occur in loops that
close within an active region, or in loops that connect an active region to a neighboring region or to a patch of strong flux
in the quiet Sun. Some magnetic configurations are particularly prone to exhibit oscillations: two active regions showed two,
and one region even three, distinct intervals with loop oscillations. The loop oscillations are not a resonance that builds
up: oscillations in loops that are excited along their entire length are likely to be near the fundamental resonance mode
because of that excitation profile, but asymmetrically excited oscillations clearly show propagating waves that are damped
too quickly to build up a resonance, and some cases show multiple frequencies. We discuss evidence that all oscillating loops
lie near magnetic separatrices that outline the large-scale topology of the field. All magnetic configurations are more complicated
than a simple bipolar region, involving mixed-polarities in the interior or vicinity of the region; this may reflect that
the exciting eruptions occur only in such environments, but this polarity mixing likely also introduces the large-scale separatrices
that are involved. Often the oscillations occur in conjunction with gradual adjustments in loop positions in response to the
triggering event. We discuss the observations in the context of two models: (a) transverse waves in coronal loops that act
as wave guides and (b) strong sensitivity to changes in the field sources for field lines near separatrices. Properties that
favor model b are (1) the involvement of loops at or near separatrices that outline the large-scale topology of the field,
(2) the combined occurrence of oscillations and loop translations, (3) the small period spread and similar decay time scale
in a set of oscillating loops in one well-observed event, and (4) the existence of loops oscillating in antiphase with footpoints
close together in two cases. All other properties are compatible with either model, except the fact that almost all of the
oscillations start away from the triggering event, suggestive of an outward-pushing exciting wave more in line with model
a. The spread in periods from event to event suggests that the oscillations may reflect the properties of some driver mechanism
that is related to the flare or mass ejection.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014957715396 相似文献
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The effect of temperature inhomogeneity on the periods, their ratios (fundamental versus first overtone), and the damping times of the standing slow modes in gravitationally stratified solar coronal loops are studied. The effects of optically thin radiation, compressive viscosity, and thermal conduction are considered. The linearized one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations (under low-?? condition) were reduced to a fourth-order ordinary differential equation for the perturbed velocity. The numerical results indicate that the periods of nonisothermal loops (i.e., temperature increases from the loop base to apex) are smaller compared to those of isothermal loops. In the presence of radiation, viscosity, and thermal conduction, an increase in the temperature gradient is followed by a monotonic decrease in the periods (compared with the isothermal case), while the period ratio turns out to be a sensitive function of the temperature gradient and the loop lengths. We verify that radiative dissipation is not a main cooling mechanism in both isothermal and nonisothermal hot coronal loops and has a small effect on the periods. Thermal conduction and compressive viscosity are primary mechanisms in the damping of slow modes of the hot coronal loops. The periods and damping times in the presence of compressive viscosity and/or thermal conduction dissipation are consistent with the observed data in specific cases. By tuning the dissipation parameters, the periods and the damping times could be made consistent with the observations in more general cases. 相似文献
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Based on the methods of coronal seismology, we have investigated the ten-second quasi-periodic pulsations of the optical flare
emission from the active red dwarf EQ Peg B detected with the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma. We propose and analyze
a model in which they could be produced by sausage oscillations of a coronal flare loop. The amplitude and phase relations
between the displacement components of the radial oscillations and the conditions for their excitation in loops with footpoints
frozen into the photosphere are considered. The temperature (≈6 × 107 K), plasma density (≈2.7 × 1011 cm−3), and magnetic field strength (≈540 G) in the region of energy release have been determined. Our estimate of the flare loop
length (≈0.4R
⋆) provides evidence for the existence of extended coronae on red dwarf stars. 相似文献
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The role of leaky waves in the coronal loop oscillations observed by TRACE is not yet clearly understood. In this work, the
excitation of fast waves in solar coronal loops modelled as dense plasma cylindrical tubes in a uniform straight magnetic
field is investigated. We study the trapped and especially leaky modes (whose energy escapes from the tube) that result from
an initial disturbance by solving the time-dependent problem numerically. We find that the stationary state of the tube motion
is given by the trapped normal modes. By contrast, the transient behaviour between the initial and the stationary phase is
dominated by wave leakage. The so-called trig leaky modes are clearly identified since the transient behaviour shows periods
and damping times that are in agreement with the values calculated from the normal-mode analysis. Consequently, these radiating
modes have physical significance. However, we have not found any evidence for the excitation of other types of modes, such
as the principal leaky kink mode.
J. Andries is postdoctoral Fellow of the National Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (Belgium) (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen). 相似文献
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Yu. G. Kopylova A. V. Melnikov A. V. Stepanov Yu. T. Tsap T. B. Goldvarg 《Astronomy Letters》2007,33(10):706-713
The dispersion properties of the sausage eigenmodes of oscillations in a thin magnetic flux tube are numerically analyzed in terms of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The period of the modes accompanied by the emission of MHD waves into the surrounding medium, which leads to acoustic damping of oscillations, is determined by the radius of the tube, not by its length. The dissipation of the sausage oscillations in comparatively high (?0.7R ⊙) and tenuous (?6 × 108 cm?3) coronal loops is considered. Their Q factor has bound found to be determined by the acoustic damping mechanism. The ratio of the plasma densities outside and inside the loop and the characteristic height of the emission source have been estimated by assuming the quasi-periodic pulsations of meter-wavelength radio emission to be related to the sausage oscillations. 相似文献
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Jiayan Yang Yunchun Jiang Bo Yang Junchao Hong Dan Yang Yi Bi Ruisheng Zheng Haidong Li 《New Astronomy》2012,17(8):732-738
By means of Hα, EUV, soft X-ray, hard X-ray, and photospheric magnetic field observations, we report the surge-like eruption of a small-scale filament, called “blowout surge” according to recent observations, occurring on a plage region around AR 10876 on 1 May 2006. Along magnetic polarity reversal boundaries with obvious magnetic cancelations, the filament was located underneath a compact coronal arcade and close to one end of large coronal loops around the AR’s periphery. The filament started to erupt about 8 min before the main impulsive phase of a small two-ribbon flare, which had two Hα blue-wing kernels connected by hard X-ray loop-top sources on the both sides of the filament. After the flare end, the filament further underwent a distant eruption following a path nearly along the preexisting large loops, and thus looked like an Hα surge and an EUV jet. During the eruption, a small coronal dimming was formed near the flare, while weak brightenings appeared around the remote end of the large loops. We interpret these joint observations as the filament eruption being confined and guided by the large loops. The filament eruption, initially embedded in one footpoint region of the large loops, can break away from the magnetic restraint of the overlying compact arcade, but might be still limited inside the large loops. As a result, the eruption took a surge form that can only expand laterally along the large loops rather than erupt radially. 相似文献