Bibcode
Terradas, J.; Arregui, I.; Verth, G.; Goossens, M.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 729, Issue 2, article id. L22 (2011).
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2011
Citations
32
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30
Description
There are ubiquitous flows observed in the solar atmosphere of
sub-Alfvénic speeds; however, after flaring and coronal mass
ejection events flows can become Alfvénic. 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.