2008/04/04 by Bradley W. Hindman, Rekha Jain · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Convection #Convection zone #Corona (planetary geology) #Coronal loop #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #Flux tube #Helioseismology #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Magnetic flux #Magnetohydrodynamics #Oscillation (cell signaling) #Photosphere #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/528956
published as Astrophys.J.677:769-780,2008 · AAS LaTex v5.0, 23 pages, 7 figures, previously published in ApJ
openalex publication_date 2008/04/04 · arxiv created 2008/05/13 · arxiv updated 2010/11/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Recent observations of coronal-loop waves by TRACE and within the corona as a whole by CoMP clearly indicate that the dominant oscillation period is 5 minutes, thus implicating the solar p modes as a possible source. We investigate the generation of tube waves within the solar convection zone by the buffeting of p modes. The tube waves—in the form of longitudinal sausage waves and transverse kink waves—are generated on the many magnetic fibrils that lace the convection zone and pierce the solar photosphere. Once generated by p -mode forcing, the tube waves freely propagate up and down the tubes, since the tubes act like light fibers and form a waveguide for these magnetosonic waves. Those waves that propagate upward pass through the photosphere and enter the upper atmosphere, where they can be measured as loop oscillations and other forms of propagating coronal waves. We treat the magnetic fibrils as vertically aligned, thin flux tubes and compute the energy flux of tube waves that can be generated and driven into the upper atmosphere. We find that a flux in excess of 10 5 ergs cm −2 s −1 can be produced, easily supplying enough wave energy to explain the observations. Furthermore, we compute the associated damping rate of the driving p modes and find that the damping is significant compared to observed line widths only for the lowest order p modes.