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Seismology of transversely oscillating coronal loops with siphon flows

Authors :
Terradas, J.
Arregui, I.
Verth, G.
Goossens, M.
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

There are ubiquitous flows observed in the solar atmosphere of sub-Alfv\'{e}nic speeds, however after flaring and coronal mass ejection events flows can become Alfv\'{e}nic. In this Letter, we derive an expression for the standing kink mode frequency due to siphon flow in coronal loops, valid for both low and high speed regimes. It is found that siphon flow introduces a linear spatially dependent phase shift along coronal loops and asymmetric eigenfunctions. We demonstrate how this theory can be used to determine the kink and flow speed of oscillating coronal loops with reference to an observational case study. It is shown that the presence of siphon flow can cause the underestimation of magnetic field strength in coronal loops using the traditional seismological methods.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1101.5238
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/729/2/L22