Determination of Transverse Density Structuring from Propagating Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Atmosphere

Arregui, I.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Pascoe, D. J.
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 769, Issue 2, article id. L34, 6 pp. (2013).

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2013
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3
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2
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26
Refereed citations
25
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We present a Bayesian seismology inversion technique for propagating magnetohydrodynamic transverse waves observed in coronal waveguides. The technique uses theoretical predictions for the spatial damping of propagating kink waves in transversely inhomogeneous coronal waveguides. It combines wave amplitude damping length scales along the waveguide with theoretical results for resonantly damped propagating kink waves to infer the plasma density variation across the oscillating structures. Provided that the spatial dependence of the velocity amplitude along the propagation direction is measured and the existence of two different damping regimes is identified, the technique would enable us to fully constrain the transverse density structuring, providing estimates for the density contrast and its transverse inhomogeneity length scale.
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