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Vasheghani Farahani, Soheil, Nakariakov, V. M. (Valery M.) and Van Doorsselaere, Tom. (2010) Long-wavelength torsional modes of solar coronal plasma structures. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.517 (No.A29). ISSN 0004-6361

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014502

Abstract

Aims. We consider the effects of the magnetic twist and plasma rotation on the propagation of torsional m = 0 perturbations of cylindrical plasma structures (straight magnetic flux tubes) in the case when the wavelength is much longer than the cylinder diameter.
Methods. The second order thin flux tube approximation is used to derive dispersion relations and phase relations in linear longwavelength axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic waves in uniformly twisted and rotating plasma structures.
Results. Asymptotic dispersion relations linking phase speeds with the plasma parameters are derived. When twist and rotation are both present, the phase speed of torsional waves depends upon the direction of the wave propagation, and also the waves are compressible. The phase relations show that in a torsional wave the density and azimuthal magnetic field perturbations are in phase with the axial magnetic field perturbations and anti-phase with tube cross-section perturbations. In a zero-β non-rotating plasma
cylinder confined by the equilibrium twist, the density perturbation is found to be about 66 percent of the amplitude of the twist perturbation in torsional waves.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics

Divisions:

Faculty of Science > Physics

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma oscillations, Sun -- Corona

Journal or Publication Title:

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Publisher:

EDP Sciences

ISSN:

0004-6361

Official Date:

July 2010

Dates:

Date	Event
July 2010	Published

Volume:

Vol.517

Number:

No.A29

Number of Pages:

Identification Number:

10.1051/0004-6361/201014502

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

Funder:

Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7)

Grant number:

220555 (FP7)

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