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Fast magnetoacoustic waves in curved coronal loops. II, Tunneling modes
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Verwichte, E. (Erwin), Foullon, C. (Claire) and Nakariakov, V. M. (Valery M.) (2005) Fast magnetoacoustic waves in curved coronal loops. II, Tunneling modes. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.449 (No.2). pp. 769-779. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20054398
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054398
Abstract
Aims. Fast magnetoacoustic waves in curved coronal loops are investigated and the role of lateral leakage in wave damping, which includes the mechanism of wave tunneling, is explored.
Methods. A coronal loop is modeled as a curved, magnetic slab in the zero plasma-β limit. In this model and for an arbitrary piece-wise continuous power law equilibrium density profile, the wave equation governing linear vertically polarised fast magnetoacoustic waves is solved
analytically. An associated dispersion relation is derived and the frequencies and eigenfunctions of the wave modes are characterised.
Results. For some equilibria, the waves are shown to be all damped due to lateral leakage. It is demonstrated that waves either leak straight out into the external medium or have to overcome an evanescent barrier, which is linked to wave tunneling. The wave solutions consist of alternating vertically polarised kink and sausage branches. Fast kink oscillations may have a non-zero density perturbation when
averaged across the loop. The calculated damping rate of fast magnetoacoustic kink oscillations is shown to be consistent with related numerical simulations and show that lateral leakage may explain the observed damping of (vertically polarised) fast magnetoacoustic kink oscillations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Magnetohydrodynamics, Sun -- Loop prominences, Sun -- Corona, Solar oscillations | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Astronomy & Astrophysics | ||||||
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0004-6361 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 8 December 2005 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Vol.449 | ||||||
| Number: | No.2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 769-779 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361:20054398 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Funder: | Royal Society (Great Britain), Leverhulme Trust (LT), Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Great Britain) (PPARC) |
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