Coronal waves and oscillations

VM Nakariakov, E Verwichte - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2005 - Springer
Wave and oscillatory activity of the solar corona is confidently observed with modern
imaging and spectral instruments in the visible light, EUV, X-ray and radio bands, and …

Prominence oscillations

I Arregui, R Oliver, JL Ballester - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2018 - Springer
Prominences are intriguing, but poorly understood, magnetic structures of the solar corona.
The dynamics of solar prominences has been the subject of a large number of studies, and …

Alfvén waves in the lower solar atmosphere

DB Jess, M Mathioudakis, R Erdélyi, PJ Crockett… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The flow of energy through the solar atmosphere and the heating of the Sun's outer regions
are still not understood. Here, we report the detection of oscillatory phenomena associated …

Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere: from theory to observations

M Mathioudakis, DB Jess, R Erdelyi - Space Science Reviews, 2013 - Springer
Alfvén waves are considered to be viable transporters of the non-thermal energy required to
heat the Sun's quiescent atmosphere. An abundance of recent observations, from state-of …

Investigating Alfvénic wave propagation in coronal open-field regions

RJ Morton, S Tomczyk, R Pinto - Nature Communications, 2015 - nature.com
The physical mechanisms behind accelerating solar and stellar winds are a long-standing
astrophysical mystery, although recent breakthroughs have come from models invoking the …

Spatially resolved microwave pulsations of a flare loop

VF Melnikov, VE Reznikova, K Shibasaki… - Astronomy & …, 2005 - aanda.org
A microwave burst with quasi-periodic pulsations was studied with high spatial resolution
using observations with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH). We found that the time …

Heating effects from driven transverse and Alfvén waves in coronal loops

M Guo, T Van Doorsselaere… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent numerical studies revealed that transverse motions of coronal loops can induce the
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI). This process could be important in coronal heating …

Stability of rotating magnetized jets in the solar atmosphere. I. Kelvin–Helmholtz instability

TV Zaqarashvili, I Zhelyazkov… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations show various jets in the solar atmosphere with significant rotational motions,
which may undergo instabilities leading to heat ambient plasma. We study the Kelvin …

The role of torsional Alfvén waves in coronal heating

P Antolin, K Shibata - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In the context of coronal heating, among the zoo of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves
that exist in the solar atmosphere, Alfvén waves receive special attention. Indeed, these …

Doppler-shift oscillations in solar spicules

TV Zaqarashvili, E Khutsishvili, V Kukhianidze… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Aims. We analysed the consecutive height series of Hα spectra in solar limb spicules taken
on the 53 cm coronagraph of Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory at the heights of 3800 …