Detection of Waves in the Solar Corona: Kink or Alfvén? | Zendy

Tom Van Doorsselaere | Zendy; V. M. Nakariakov | Zendy; E. Verwichte | Zendy

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Detection of Waves in the Solar Corona: Kink or Alfvén?

Author(s) -

Tom Van Doorsselaere,

V. M. Nakariakov,

E. Verwichte

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/587029

Subject(s) - physics , magnetohydrodynamics , omnipresence , interpretation (philosophy) , corona (planetary geology) , astrophysics , nanoflares , solar wind , computational physics , plasma , astronomy , classical mechanics , coronal mass ejection , quantum mechanics , astrobiology , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language , venus

Recently, the omnipresence of waves has been discovered in the corona using the CoMP instrument. We demonstrate that the observational findings can be explained in terms of guided kink magnetoacoustic modes. The interpretation of the observations in terms of Alfven waves is shown to be inconsistent with MHD wave theory. The implications of the interpretation in terms of kink waves are discussed.

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