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Kumar, Pankaj, Nakariakov, Valery M., Karpen, Judith T., DeVore, C. Richard and Cho, Kyung-Suk (2022) Kink oscillation of a flux rope during a failed solar eruption. Astrophysical Journal, 932 (1). L9. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac6e3e
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6e3e
Abstract
We report a decaying kink oscillation of a flux rope during a confined eruptive flare, observed off the solar limb by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), which lacked a detectable white-light coronal mass ejection. The erupting flux rope underwent kinking, rotation, and apparent leg–leg interaction during the event. The oscillations were observed simultaneously in multiple AIA channels at 304, 171, and 193 Å, indicating that multithermal plasma was entrained in the rope. After reaching the overlying loops in the active region, the flux rope exhibited large-amplitude, decaying kink oscillations with an apparent initial amplitude of 30 Mm, a period of about 16 minutes, and a decay time of about 17 minutes. We interpret these oscillations as a fundamental standing kink mode of the flux rope. The oscillation polarization has a clear vertical component, while the departure of the detected waveform from a sinusoidal signal suggests that the oscillation could be circularly or elliptically polarized. The estimated kink speed is 1080 km s−1, corresponding to an Alfvén speed of about 760 km s−1. This speed, together with the estimated electron density in the rope from our differential emission measure analysis, ne ≈ (1.5–2.0) × 109 cm−3, yields a magnetic-field strength of about 15 G. To the best of our knowledge, decaying kink oscillations of a flux rope with nonhorizontal polarization during a confined eruptive flare have not been reported before. These oscillations provide unique opportunities for indirect measurements of the magnetic-field strength in low-coronal flux ropes during failed eruptions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Solar oscillations -- Research, Sun -- Active regions, Helioseismology, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma dynamics, Solar flares, X-ray spectroscopy | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Astrophysical Journal | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0004-637X | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 13 June 2022 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 932 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Article Number: | L9 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ac6e3e | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. | ||||||||||||
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